Design and implement production ready Lakehouse architectures using Delta Lake and Databricks. By the end of this course, you will be able to build multi layer Medallion pipelines including Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, manage ACID transactions, enforce and evolve schemas, implement Change Data Capture, and optimize Delta tables for performance using data skipping, compaction, and Liquid Clustering. You will also learn to unify batch and streaming workloads while ensuring reliability, scalability, and recoverability in enterprise environments.

Lakehouse Architecture and Delta Lake with Databricks

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Intermediate level
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1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Design and implement Lakehouse architectures using Databricks and Delta Lake to replace legacy data platforms
Build end-to-end data pipelines using Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) with incremental processing and Change Data Capture
Apply Delta Lake performance optimization techniques—including data skipping, file compaction, and Liquid Clustering—to support BI and ML workloads
Manage production-grade data reliability through ACID transactions, time travel, schema enforcement, and concurrency control
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February 2026
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