Delta Lake is Growing Up: Diving into Our Favorite Features of Delta 4.0
Delta 4.0 is here and we’re really excited to share our favorite new features with you. In this session, join Youssef Mrini and Scott Haines as they walk you through what they believe are game changing new features that you simply can’t ignore.
They’ll dive into the following:
Variant Type support — Exploring when to use this new data type and when not to
Type-Widening — Why it is a killer feature and how it can save you time as your table grows
Collated Columns — Previewing Spark’s support for collated string columns for your Delta tables
Delta Connect — Introducing a new way to work with your Delta tables with a live Demo
Outside of the new features of Delta 4.0, Youssef and Scott will revisit clustering strategies with Liquid Clustering.
Speakers
Youssef Mrini, Solutions Architect, Databricks
Bio: Youssef Mrini is part of the pre-sales team in the EMEA Region at Databricks and helps customers to adopt the databricks technologies. Youssef is an ex-data engineer. He holds a degree in big Data and have been working on various areas for the last couple of years.
Scott Haines, Developer Relations Engineer, Buf
Bio: Scott Haines is a seasoned software engineer specializing in massive distributed data systems and streaming technologies. Over the past decade, he has built and scaled data infrastructure at leading companies including Yahoo!, Twilio, Nike, and currently Buf. Scott is the author of books on Apache Spark and Delta Lake, and helps organizations successfully adopt open-source technologies through his teaching and consulting work. He is also proud to be a Databricks MVP.