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My client is in the middle of migrating their Snowflake data to Databricks Unity Catalog.

To this day, I still do not understand why they love Databricks so much. It just looks like a Jupyter notebook to me. I know, it has Spark. So?

I’m trying to learn more so I can build something better, maybe.

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Yeah, I'd like to know too, from everything I can see it's just a cloud-hosted notebook with a spark backend, which does have some benefits, but I can't tell why they got as big as they did.

Also from a more cynical side, I've interviewed at a lot of companies that ask if I've used it before, and I'm really temped to just lie, since it feels like something that could be picked up really easily.

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