Engineering Insights

Engineering Insights

Practical articles on AI, Data Engineering, Metadata-Driven Development, Snowflake, Enterprise Architecture, and Modern Data Platforms.

Real-world engineering lessons, technical deep dives, and implementation guides by Amit Singh · 16 articles published

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Showing 6 articles tagged #Databricks

Data EngineeringIntermediate

From Claim PDFs to Governed Delta Tables with Databricks AI Functions

A practical walkthrough for ingesting P&C claim documents into a Bronze-Silver-Gold lakehouse using Databricks ai_parse_document and ai_extract 2.1, with deterministic validation and a human-review step before data reaches Gold.

#Databricks#AI Functions#ai_extract
Oct 5, 2026
Data EngineeringIntermediate

Extending Databricks Lakehouse Industry Data Models for Property & Casualty Insurance

Explore how the Databricks Lakehouse Industry Data Models approach could be extended to Property & Casualty insurance, covering policy, coverage, risk, premium, claims, grain and AI-assisted data engineering.

#Databricks#Data Engineering#Insurance
Sep 19, 2026
Data EngineeringAdvanced

Databricks Industry Data Models: From AI Coding to AI Architecture

Databricks' 23,000+ table Industry Data Models show how GenAI, metadata, deterministic validation, Unity Catalog and human governance could reshape enterprise data architecture.

#Databricks#Data Engineering#Data Modeling
Sep 8, 2026
AI & Data EngineeringAdvanced

Agentic Engineering: 30 Concepts Are Useful, but Knowing When to Use an Agent Matters More

Understanding agentic AI concepts is important - but the most valuable skill is engineering judgment: knowing when a prompt, Python script, or SQL query is the better answer than an agent.

#Agentic AI#AI Agents#Data Engineering
Sep 4, 2026
Data EngineeringAdvanced

Inside Databricks Instructed-Retriever-1: A Practical Enterprise Search Example

How parallel query generation and multi-pivot reranking can improve enterprise knowledge retrieval beyond traditional RAG.

#Databricks#Instructed-Retriever-1#Knowledge Assistant
Aug 16, 2026
Data EngineeringIntermediate

From Materialized Views to Change-Aware Data Products: Why Change Data Feed Matters

Banks already know how to capture changes at the transaction level. But what happens when a downstream system needs to know that a customer's risk score moved from 42 to 67 - not which five transactions caused it? That is the architectural gap CDF on Materialized Views is designed to close.

#Databricks#Change Data Feed#Materialized Views
Aug 9, 2026

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