Building a Databricks AI Platform on AWS
RBAC with Function-Role Groups
Compute Governance: Pools, Policies, Clusters
The BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT Mystery
Fixing It with AWS PrivateLink
The Terraform behind a multi-workspace Databricks platform: reusable modules, a YAML→Terragrunt flow so humans never touch .tf, per-workspace provider overrides, and the two ordering footguns.
Building a Databricks AI Platform on AWS
RBAC with Function-Role Groups
Compute Governance: Pools, Policies, Clusters
The BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT Mystery
Fixing It with AWS PrivateLink

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

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

The north-star design behind our Databricks platform — Lakehouse and Medallion under Unity Catalog governance, three fully…

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

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

Over the past few weeks I've written about the workflows I developed building production systems with...