Best practice articles

This article provides a reference of best practice articles you can use to optimize your Azure Databricks activity.

The Azure Databricks documentation includes a number of best practices articles to help you get the best performance at the lowest cost when using and administering Azure Databricks.

Cheat sheets

Cheat sheets provide you with a high-level view of practices you should be implementing in your Azure Databricks account and workflows. Each cheat sheet includes a table of best practices, their impact, and helpful resources. Available cheat sheets include the following:

• Platform administration cheat sheet
• Compute creation cheat sheet
• Production job scheduling cheat sheet
• Power BI cheat sheet

Best practice articles

The following articles provide you with best practice guidance for various Azure Databricks features.

• Delta Lake best practices
• Lakehouse principles and best practices
• Unity Catalog best practices
• Hyperparameter tuning with Hyperopt
• Deep learning in Databricks
• Recommendations for MLOps
• Cluster configuration best practices
• Serverless best practices
• Instance pool configuration best practices
• Notebooks best practices
• AI/BI Genie space authoring best practices
• CI/CD workflows best practices