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Cloud Data Engineering (AWS & Azure)

Enterprise Databricks Unity Catalog, ADF, Synapse & Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

Production cloud data architectures on AWS and Azure, Databricks Unity Catalog governance, Auto Loader ingestion, private endpoints, and Terraform infrastructure as code.

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Core Technical Subclusters

Structured specialization tracks under the Cloud Data Engineering (AWS & Azure) umbrella.

Databricks Enterprise Platform

15+ specs

Unity Catalog RBAC, Delta Live Tables, and Photon engine optimization.

AWS Cloud Data Services

13+ specs

S3 security hardening, Lake Formation, Glue, EMR, and Redshift Serverless.

Microsoft Azure Data Stack

12+ specs

ADLS Gen2 ACLs, Data Factory vs Databricks, Synapse, and Microsoft Purview.

Authoritative Guides, Benchmarks & Blueprints

Deep production guides authored by Sathus practice leads.

Architecture Guide

13 min read

Databricks Unity Catalog: Enterprise Governance, Lineage & RBAC Guide

Step-by-step architectural guide to deploying Databricks Unity Catalog across AWS and Azure workspaces. Covers 3-tier namespace (Catalog.Schema.Table), automated column-level lineage, SCIM identity federation, and dynamic row-level security.

Key Highlight: Unity Catalog replaces workspace-level Hive metastores with a centralized, account-level governance framework spanning multiple cloud regions.

By Marcus VanceRead Guide

Architecture Guide

16 min read

Databricks Production Lakehouse Architecture: Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables & Photon

The comprehensive enterprise architecture blueprint for designing, deploying, and operating a multi-workspace Databricks lakehouse. Covers Unity Catalog 3-level governance, Delta Live Tables (DLT) declarative ETL, Liquid Clustering, and Serverless Photon SQL data warehousing.

Key Highlight: Unity Catalog enforces a unified three-level namespace (catalog.schema.table), eliminating fragmented workspace-level Hive metastores.

By Marcus VanceRead Guide

Architecture Guide

16 min read

AWS Data Lakehouse Architecture: S3, AWS Glue, EMR Serverless & Redshift Spectrum

The comprehensive enterprise architecture blueprint for designing, deploying, and operating an open data lakehouse on Amazon Web Services. Covers S3 Intelligent-Tiering, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation tag-based governance, EMR Serverless Spark, and Redshift Serverless lakehouse queries.

Key Highlight: Amazon S3 acts as the decoupled single source of truth, utilizing Intelligent-Tiering to reduce cold historical storage costs by up to 60%.

By Elena RostovaRead Guide

Architecture Guide

16 min read

Azure Modern Data Platform Architecture: ADLS Gen2, Azure Databricks, Fabric & Purview

The comprehensive enterprise architecture blueprint for designing, deploying, and operating an Azure Modern Data Platform. Covers Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) hierarchical namespaces, Azure Databricks Delta Lake, Microsoft Fabric OneLake integration, and Microsoft Purview data governance.

Key Highlight: ADLS Gen2 Hierarchical Namespace (HNS) accelerates directory renames and atomic file operations from O(N) to O(1) complexity, critical for Spark job commits.

By Elena RostovaRead Guide

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Cloud Data Engineering (AWS & Azure)

Enterprise Databricks Unity Catalog, ADF, Synapse & Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

Production cloud data architectures on AWS and Azure, Databricks Unity Catalog governance, Auto Loader ingestion, private endpoints, and Terraform infrastructure as code.