Box 1: High Concurrency

Enable Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough for a high-concurrency cluster.

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Support for Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough on standard clusters is in Public Preview.

Standard clusters with credential passthrough are supported on Databricks Runtime 5.5 and above and are limited to a single user.

Box 2: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 Credential Passthrough

You can authenticate automatically to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 from Azure Databricks clusters using the same Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identity that you use to log into Azure Databricks. When you enable your cluster for Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough, commands that you run on that cluster can read and write data in Azure Data Lake Storage without requiring you to configure service principal credentials for access to storage.

Guarantee Stream Analytics job reliability during service updates

Part of being a fully managed service is the capability to introduce new service functionality and improvements at a rapid pace. As a result, Stream Analytics can have a service update deploy on a weekly (or more frequent) basis. No matter how much testing is done there is still a risk that an existing, running job may break due to the introduction of a bug. If you are running mission critical jobs, these risks need to be avoided. You can reduce this risk by following Azure’s paired region model.

Scenario: The application development team will create an Azure event hub to receive real-time sales data, including store number, date, time, product ID, customer loyalty number, price, and discount amount, from the point of sale (POS) system and output the data to data storage in Azure