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Azure Databricks Lessons Learned Series - part 6: Unity Catalog Migration Part 6: Final Tips and Tricks

This is the final wrap-up in our Unity Catalog migration series. These are the practical tips we landed on after the migration, the ones that would have saved us time if we had known them before we started.

By Adam Marczak, January 6 2026
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Azure Databricks Lessons Learned Series - part 5: Governance in Unity Catalog: Defining Projects and Roles

The most important migration decision was not technical. It was about teams and roles. In Unity Catalog, the wrong role model makes the whole platform hard to operate.

By Adam Marczak, December 30 2025
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Azure Databricks Lessons Learned Series - part 4: Structuring Your Unity Catalog for Success

In our platform, one of the first questions we answered was: what is a project in Unity Catalog? That decision shaped every later governance and onboarding choice.

By Adam Marczak, December 23 2025
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Azure Databricks Lessons Learned Series - part 2: Navigating Limits in Unity Catalog

One of the biggest surprises in our Unity Catalog migration was how much of the design depended on product limits. If you do not know which limits are soft and which are fixed, you can build a design that stops before it starts.

By Adam Marczak, December 16 2025
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Azure Databricks Lessons Learned Series - part 2: How Previews Saved Our Unity Catalog Migration

The most surprising part of our Databricks migration was this: without previews, we would not have finished. The features we used were not in plain sight, but they were the only path through several blockers.

By Adam Marczak, December 9 2025
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Azure Databricks Lessons Learned Series - part 1: Migrating to Unity Catalog: The Big Picture

This was the one part of the migration where the word “catalog” almost hid the real work. We were not just moving metadata; we were rebuilding a platform with Azure Landing Zone thinking and Unity Catalog governance baked in.

By Adam Marczak, December 2 2025
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How to implement a quick CI/CD for Azure Databricks notebooks using Azure DevOps

If your developers are building notebooks directly in Azure Databricks portal, then you can quickly enhance their productivity but adding a simple CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps. In this article I’ll show you how!

By Adam Marczak, March 18 2023
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