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Azure Databricks
Unity Catalog governance best practices
Research-backedWhat keeps governance on Databricks sustainable in production: permission inheritance, managed tables, system tables and saying goodbye to the Hive metastore.
- Azure Databricks
- Unity Catalog
- +1
15 Aug 20268 min readAlso available as a video, 1:31
Foundry
Best practices for securing AI workloads and agents
Research-backedEleven choices for AI and agents: applying Zero Trust, governed grounding, prompts as data, agent identity with least privilege, and a release gate on preview.
- Microsoft Foundry
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- +3
6 Aug 20264 min readAlso available as a video, 1:19
Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender best practices for a Data & AI platform
Research-backedTen choices that decide whether Defender really covers your Data & AI platform: CSPM broadly, plans on risk, logging up front, and the line where Purview and Sentinel take over.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- +2
6 Aug 20264 min readAlso available as a video, 1:15
Azure Databricks
Databricks compute and cost best practices
Research-backedWhere the bill on Databricks comes from: job versus all-purpose compute, autoscaling, automatic termination, Photon and DBCU prepurchase.
- Azure Databricks
5 Aug 20263 min readAlso available as a video, 1:28
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