The Target Architecture ← you are here
Building a Databricks AI Platform on AWS
RBAC with Function-Role Groups
Compute Governance: Pools, Policies, Clusters
The BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT Mystery
The north-star design behind our Databricks platform — Lakehouse and Medallion under Unity Catalog governance, three fully isolated zones (prod, dev, sandbox), zero-copy reads, and a promote path that keeps humans out of production writes.
The Target Architecture ← you are here
Building a Databricks AI Platform on AWS
RBAC with Function-Role Groups
Compute Governance: Pools, Policies, Clusters
The BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT Mystery

The Terraform behind a multi-workspace Databricks platform: reusable modules, a YAML→Terragrunt flow so humans never touch .tf,…

Governing Databricks compute so nobody spins up a 128-core box at 2am: instance pools, cluster policies, an entitlement gate, and…

Databricks RBAC done right: three account-level function-role groups, workspace USER/ADMIN assignment, and the mental split…

Healthy EC2, perfect routing, and a Databricks cluster that still won't start. Tracing a BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT from the data plane to…

Fixing a Databricks BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT with AWS PrivateLink — control-plane traffic over the AWS backbone with zero new subnets,…

As organisations move to the Databricks Lakehouse Platform on AWS, two priorities consistently...