Summary

This chapter covered a wide range of setup decisions, options, and processes for planning your Data Intelligence Platform. We took you through an overview of the main components of the DI Platform, from early design choices to important features that we will dive into further in upcoming chapters. You also learned how to set up your workspace and project code base. We hope you feel more comfortable with the basics of the platform. With Databricks ready and the project data downloaded, we are now ready to get into what it means to build out the Bronze data layer.

In Chapter 3, we cover the essentials of building out the Bronze data layer within the Databricks Intelligence Platform. We will format our data into the most optimized format, learn about schema evolution, change data capture using Delta, and more.