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Michael Armbrust

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Michael Armbrust

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Distinguished Engineer Databricks

Michael Armbrust is a committer and PMC member of Apache Spark and the original creator of Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, and Delta Lake. He currently tech-leads the Lakeflow organization at Databricks, with research interests in distributed systems, large-scale structured storage, and query optimization.

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Getting the Most Out of Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines: A Deep Dive on What’s New and Best Practices

This deep dive covers advanced usage patterns, tips and best practices for maximizing the potential of Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines. Attendees will explore new features, enhanced workflows and cost-optimization strategies through a demo-heavy presentation. The session will also address complex use cases, showcasing how Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines simplifies the management of robust data pipelines while maintaining scalability and efficiency across diverse data engineering challenges.

keynote
with Bilal Aslam (Databricks) , Michael Armbrust (Databricks) , Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji (Databricks) , Miranda Luna (Databricks) , Michael Flynn (Rivian) , Ken Wong (Databricks) , Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) , Keegan Dubbs (Databricks) , Matei Zaharia (Databricks) , Michelle Leon (Databricks) , Michael Piatek (Databricks)

Discover the latest advances on the Data Intelligence Platform and hear from the companies who are already enjoying success.

Declarative Pipelines: What’s Next for the Apache Spark Ecosystem

Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has made it dramatically easier to build production-grade Spark pipelines, using a framework that abstracts away orchestration and complexity. It’s become a go-to solution for teams who want reliable, maintainable pipelines without reinventing the wheel.But we’re just getting started. In this session, we’ll take a step back and share a broader vision for the future of Spark Declarative Pipelines — one that opens the door to a new level of openness, standardization and community momentum.We’ll cover the core concepts behind Declarative Pipelines, where the architecture is headed, and what this shift means for both existing Lakeflow users and Spark engineers building procedural code. Don’t miss this session — we’ll be sharing something new that sets the direction for what comes next.

Introducing Lakeflow: The Future of Data Engineering on Databricks

Join us to explore Lakeflow, Databricks' end-to-end solution for simplifying and unifying the most complex data engineering workflows. This session builds on keynote announcements, offering an accessible introduction for newcomers while emphasizing the transformative value Lakeflow delivers.We’ll cover: What is Lakeflow? – A cohesive overview of its components: Lakeflow Connect, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, and Lakeflow Jobs. Core Capabilities in Action – Live demos showcasing no-code data ingestion, code-optional declarative pipelines, and unified, end-to-end orchestration. Vision for the Future – Unveil the roadmap, introducing no-code and open-source initiatives. Discover how Lakeflow equips data teams with a seamless experience for ingestion, transformation, and orchestration, reducing complexity and driving productivity. By unifying these capabilities, Lakeflow lays the groundwork for scalable, reliable, efficient data pipelines in a governed and high-performing environment.

Delta Live Tables A to Z: Best Practices for Modern Data Pipelines

Join Databricks' Distinguished Principal Engineer Michael Armbrust for a technical deep dive into how Delta Live Tables (DLT) reduces the complexity of data transformation and ETL. Learn what’s new; what’s coming; and how to easily master the ins-and-outs of DLT.

Michael will describe and demonstrate:

  • What’s new in Delta Live Tables (DLT) - Enzyme, Enhanced Autoscaling, and more
  • How to easily create and maintain your DLT pipelines
  • How to monitor pipeline operations
  • How to optimize data for analytics and ML
  • Sneak Peek into the DLT roadmap

Talk by: Michael Armbrust

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Data + AI Summit Keynote Thursday
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with Michael Armbrust (Databricks) , Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz) , Arsalan , Jitendra Malik (University of California, Berkeley) , Eric Schmidt (Google (Alphabet)) , Hannes Muhleisen (DuckDB Labs) , Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) , Reynold Xin (Databricks) , Matei Zaharia (Databricks) , Lin Qiao (Fireworks AI) , Harrison Chase (LangChain)

0:00 Open 6:08 Ali Ghodsi & Marc Andreessen 32:06 Reynold Xin 48:09 Michael Armbrust 1:00:00 Matei Zaharia & Panel 1:27:10 Hannes Muhleisen 01:37:43 Harrison Chase 01:49:15 Lin Qiao 02:05:03 Jitendra Malik 02:21:15 Arsalan & Eric Schmidt

Day 1 Morning Keynote | Data + AI Summit 2022

Day 1 Morning Keynote | Data + AI Summit 2022 Welcome & "Destination Lakehouse" | Ali Ghodsi Apache Spark Community Update | Reynold Xin Streaming Lakehouse | Karthik Ramasamy Delta Lake | Michael Armbrust How Adobe migrated to a unified and open data Lakehouse to deliver personalization at unprecedented scale | Dave Weinstein Data Governance and Sharing on Lakehouse |Matei Zaharia Analytics Engineering and the Great Convergence | Tristan Handy Data Warehousing | Shant Hovespian Unlocking the power of data, AI & analytics: Amgen’s journey to the Lakehouse | Kerby Johnson

Get insights on how to launch a successful lakehouse architecture in Rise of the Data Lakehouse by Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse. Download the ebook: https://dbricks.co/3ER9Y0K

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Day 2 Morning Keynote |  Data + AI Summit 2022

Day 2 Morning Keynote | Data + AI Summit 2022 Production Machine Learning | Patrick Wendell MLflow 2.0 | Kasey Uhlenhuth Revolutionizing agriculture with AI: Delivering smart industrial solutions built upon a Lakehouse architecture | Ganesh Jayaram Intuit’s Data Journey to the Lakehouse: Developing Smart, Personalized Financial Products for 100M+ Consumers & Small Businesses | Alon Amit and Manish Amde Workflows | Stacy Kerkela Delta Live Tables | Michael Armbrust AI and creativity, and building data products where there's no quantitative metric for success, such as in games, or web-scale search, or content discovery | Hilary Mason What to Know about Data Science and Machine Learning in 2022 | Peter Norvig Data-centric AI development: From Big Data to Good Data | Andrew Ng

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Summary Building and maintaining a data lake is a choose your own adventure of tools, services, and evolving best practices. The flexibility and freedom that data lakes provide allows for generating significant value, but it can also lead to anti-patterns and inconsistent quality in your analytics. Delta Lake is an open source, opinionated framework built on top of Spark for interacting with and maintaining data lake platforms that incorporates the lessons learned at DataBricks from countless customer use cases. In this episode Michael Armbrust, the lead architect of Delta Lake, explains how the project is designed, how you can use it for building a maintainable data lake, and some useful patterns for progressively refining the data in your lake. This conversation was useful for getting a better idea of the challenges that exist in large scale data analytics, and the current state of the tradeoffs between data lakes and data warehouses in the cloud.

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Interview

Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data m