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Welcome to Starter Journey: Your roadmap to master Databricks.

All about data​

Databricks Projects share the same foundation:

  • BI & Analytics: Require reliable data to transform raw information into the "single source of truth" necessary for confident, data-driven business decisions.
  • Predictive AI & ML: Demand high-quality data to ensure that training and validation processes result in models that are both accurate and performant.
  • GenAI & Agents: Depend on curated data to anchor Large Language Models (LLMs) in facts, ensuring chatbots provide trustable, hallucination-free answers.

One of the main goals of the Starter Journey is to establish a solid Databricks foundations for your upcoming Databricks projects.

What's in this guide​

The Starter Journey covers the following topics:

  • Infra Setup – Workspaces, users, groups, SSO
  • Data Governance – Strategy for small and large organizations
  • Access your data – Object storage, managed connectors
  • Build the first pipeline – First pipeline
  • Automation & Orchestration – Jobs and workflows
  • Query and explore – Data serving and exploration
  • Databricks AI/BI – Dashboards, Genie, Apps
  • DevOps and CI/CD – Asset Bundles and best practices
  • Cost Monitoring – Industry best practices
  • AI / ML – Traditional ML, AgentBricks, MLOps, LLMOps

Use the sidebar to navigate through each section.