The Databricks Data Engineer
How Photon actually makes your Databricks queries faster (and when it silently doesn't)
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Two engineers run the same SQL on the same Delta table. Same data, same cluster size, copy-pasted code. Alex goes to make a coffee and comes back to a query still running. Sam's is done before they finish reading the first Slack message. The only difference is one checkbox on the cluster called Photon.
Most Databricks data engineers have that box ticked, pay a premium for it on every DBU, and…