The measurements, in public.
Benchmarking and platform engineering work published through Capital One Software, Plotly, and Databricks SME Engineering. Everything here is the same evidence-first method we bring to client work — the numbers are reproducible and the methodology is in the article.
Capital One Software Engineering Blog
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Scaling agent context with knowledge graphs on Snowflake
How knowledge graphs extend the working context available to AI agents beyond fixed dashboards and flat retrieval, implemented on Snowflake.
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Jobs Classic vs. Jobs Serverless vs. DBSQL: Who wins on TPC-DS?
A data-driven analysis running the full TPC-DS suite — 4,750+ queries — across three Databricks compute planes via Apache JMeter. Serverless SQL warehouses emerge as the overall winner, roughly 7× faster than any Jobs compute at equal or lower cost, while classic Jobs Compute wins within the Jobs family.
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Building a GenAI cost supervisor agent in Databricks
Turning Databricks system tables into a knowledge base for an AI agent that answers GenAI cost questions — and the case for Unity Catalog functions over text-to-SQL to eliminate the injection surface.
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Cortex Code CLI: a hands-on review of Snowflake's TPC-DS 10TB
Hands-on evaluation of Snowflake's Cortex Code CLI across five test areas spanning 55 billion rows.
Plotly on Databricks series (2023–2024)
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Visualizing a billion points: Databricks SQL, Plotly Dash, and the Plotly Resampler
At-scale interactive Dash apps over large IoT time-series via the Databricks SQL connector, with Plotly Resampler downsampling on a Polars backend.
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Building Plotly Dash apps on a lakehouse with Databricks SQL (advanced edition)
Connecting Dash to Databricks via the SQL connector or SQLAlchemy ORM — streaming dashboards, DDL and object mapping, and advanced visuals. Article #4 in the series.
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Amplify your organization's custom LLM strategy using Databricks with Plotly (part 1)
A full-stack Dash application that deploys Hugging Face and Databricks models to GPU serving endpoints.
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Databricks SDK + Plotly Dash — the easiest way to get jobs done
Dash as a front end for the Databricks SDK and Jobs API.
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Molson Coors streamlines supply planning workflows with Databricks & Plotly Dash
A production customer data application built on the SQLAlchemy engine and Dash AG Grid. Article #3 in the series.
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