The Databricks Data Engineer

4 habits that quietly turn your Databricks Delta Lake into a swamp

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You built the table right. Well-partitioned, documented, fast enough that the row count came back before you finished reading your own Slack. Six months later it takes four minutes to return that same count, and nobody on your team ever decided to make it that way. There was no meeting, no design doc, no ticket titled "let's make this unqueryable by Q3."

A swamp is not a decision. It's the sum…