5 Lessons Learned from Testing Databricks SQL Serverless + DBT | Towards Data Science

We ran a $12K experiment to test the cost and performance of Serverless warehouses and dbt concurrent threads, and obtained unexpected results. By: Jeff Chou, Stewart Bryson Databricks’ SQL w...

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5 Lessons Learned from Testing Databricks SQL Serverless + DBT | Towards Data Science

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We ran a $12K experiment to test the cost and performance of Serverless warehouses and dbt concurrent threads, and obtained unexpected results. By: Jeff Chou, Stewart Bryson Databricks’ SQL warehouse products are a compelling offering for companies looking to streamline their production SQL queries and warehouses. However, as usage scales up, the cost and performance […]