Azure Databricks Readiness Resources
Fundamentals
- Azure Databricks Documentation (Self-Paced)
- Azure Databricks Service (Self-Paced)
Associate
- Challenge-based Labs: Using Spark with Azure Databricks (Self-Paced) (4 Hours)
- Extract knowledge and insights from your data with Azure Databricks (Self-Paced) (4 Hours)
- Perform data engineering with Azure Databricks (Self-Paced) (8 Hours)
- Tutorial: ETL with Databricks (Self-Paced) (1 hour)
- Delta Lake and Delta Engine Guide (Self-Paced) (4 Hours)
- Guide for Machine Learning and Deep Learning at Scale on Azure Databricks (Self-Paced) (4 Hours)
Expert
- Databricks Academy offers self-paced and instructor-led training courses. Self-paced training is free for all customers.
- Azure Databricks Best Practices (Self-Paced) (4 Hours)
WhatTheHack events are often in-person in a hands on format. However, it can be worked on individually and self-paced:
- WhatTheHack - Databricks Intro ML (Hands on lab)
Specialist
- Databricks REST API (Self-Paced)
- Challenge-based Labs: Advanced Databricks (Self-Paced) (4 Hours)
MLOps
- mlflow guide (Self-Paced)
- mlflow official website (Self-Paced)
- mlflow GitHub Repository (Self-Paced)
- Managed mlflow (Self-Paced)
- Train and track ML models with MLflow and Azure Machine Learning (Self-Paced)
- Track Azure Databricks ML experiments with MLflow and Azure Machine Learning (Self-Paced)
Distributed Deep Learning
- HorovodRunner for Distributed Deep Learning Training (Self-Paced)
- Record Horovod training with Horovod Timeline (Self-Paced)
- Simple Steps to Distributed Deep Learning (Self-Paced)
- Distributed training (Self-Paced)
- HorovodEstimator: distributed deep learning with Horovod and Apache Spark MLlib (Self-Paced)
Certifications
There is no specific Microsoft Azure Databricks certifications available currently. The following are Microsoft Certifications that cover parts of databricks:
Databricks also offters certifications, although these are not Azure specific