Your Databricks estate might be costing more than you think.
Deltatune is a consultancy that helps businesses optimise their Databricks estate to reduce cost, surface security risks, improve data governance, boost performance and ultimately, ensure confidence in technology leadership.
Common findings
Explore what a Databricks audit typically uncovers.
Most organisations focus intensely on getting Databricks live, then the platform grows faster than the organisation's ability to govern, optimise, secure and explain it. The risk of not auditing is not that nothing is configured. It is that nobody can prove which configurations matter, which have drifted and which are costing the business today.
Featured articles
Practical guidance for tuning your Databricks estate.
Explore our latest thinking on Databricks cost control, governance, observability and platform optimisation.
Observability
The Databricks Cost Problem Nobody Can Explain: Why Query Tagging Matters
Finance asks which team generated last month's SQL warehouse spend. Engineering points at a dashboard. Nobody has an answer. The money has gone somewhere. The platform knows. The people don't.
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Cost optimisation
Understanding the True Cost of Databricks Photon: The Checkbox That Can Double Your Bill
Photon is usually switched on because someone wants the platform to go faster. Fair enough. But things can get awkward, fast.
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Audit
Inventory your Databricks estate as it actually exists: pipelines, jobs, clusters, policies, apps, tables, logs, permissions.
Report
Translate technical evidence into leadership-grade visibility with an Estate Health Report.
Tune
Prioritise and advise on improvements: rightsizing, schedules, policies, tagging, warehouse rationalisation, permission cleanup, lineage checks, runtime upgrades and retirement of stale assets.
Consulting engagement
Our A.R.T. protocol gets you tuning fast.
Our A.R.T. protocol turns Databricks findings into a focused consulting engagement with clear outcomes. We can perform an estate-wide audit or work flexibly with you around access-constraints.