Where should I write temporary files on Databricks? If you must write temporary files you do not want to keep after the cluster is shut down, writing the temporary files to$TEMPDIRyields better performance than writing to the current working directory (CWD) if the CWD is in the workspace fil...
For example, an organization may want to publish a news article or a COVID dashboard for which they expect high demand, only to discover that it needs the IT organization to spin up a back-end Kubernetes cluster to handle the load. Excessive time and costs moving the data to the ...
There's another side of the equation: picking your cloud computing footprint. Serverless is supposed to address that. You subscribe to the service, and the cloud (or service) provider will then autoscale the cluster based on the default instance types for the service. A startup that just wo...