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Field Notes

All older posts are filed here — mostly 2021 to 2023, written closer to the keyboard. Databricks, Azure Data Factory, the dull parts of engineering made less dull. Left as written.

Automating repo scaffolding with Azure DevOps

Mar 2023

Using Azure DevOps to run Cookiecutter templates

Feb 2023

Using cookiecutter hooks to enhance code scaffolding

Jan 2023

Scaffolding repos with cookiecutter

Jan 2023

Why you want Databricks Auto Loader

Feb 2022

Part 3 - Pre-commit hooks - SQL Linting

Feb 2022

Part 2 - Detect secrets in Azure repos

Jan 2022

Part 1 - Pre-commit hooks in Azure repos

Jan 2022
Opinion

Moving to a Hugo static site

Dec 2021

Pin Databricks Clusters

Aug 2021

Part 4 - Bad records path

Jun 2021

Part 3 - Permissive

May 2021

Part 2 - Dropmalformed

May 2021

Part 1 - Failfast

May 2021

Delta Lake table restore

Apr 2021

Secret redaction caution

Mar 2021

Key vault secrets in ADF pipelines

Mar 2021

Databricks managed identity setup in ADF

Feb 2021
Opinion

Cutting code and architects

Feb 2021

Concurrency defaults in ADF

Nov 2020

ADF activity policy

Oct 2020

Specify dynamic JSON content in ADF

Oct 2020
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