Ka-Hing Chueng and Vaibhav Sethi announce Databricks Repos is now generally available:
Thousands of Databricks customers have adopted Databricks Repos since its public preview and have standardized on it for their development and production workflows. Today, we are happy to announce that Databricks Repos is now generally available.
Databricks Repos was created to solve a persistent problem for data teams: most tools used by data engineering/machine learning practitioners offer poor or no integration with Git version control systems, forcing them to navigate through multiple files, steps and UIs to simply review and commit code. Not only is this time-consuming, but it’s also error-prone.
This has been a bit of a pain point with Databricks in the past, and they’ve come up with this solution. Given that Azure Synapse Analytics has some of the same pain points, I’d expect we’ll see something similar in time.