Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks is a unified data analytics platform built on Apache Spark, optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud. It provides a collaborative workspace for data engineers, data scientists, and analysts to process large-scale data, build machine learning models, and perform real-time analytics. The platform integrates seamlessly with Azure services like Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Machine Learning for end-to-end data workflows.
Developers should learn Azure Databricks when working on big data processing, ETL pipelines, or machine learning projects in the Azure ecosystem, as it offers managed Spark clusters with auto-scaling and built-in security. It is ideal for use cases like real-time streaming analytics, collaborative data science notebooks, and building scalable data lakes, especially in enterprises already invested in Azure services for cloud infrastructure.