Datastage to Databricks Migration Services & Guide
Datastage to Databricks migration
How to migrate DataStage to Databricks
The Real-Talk Guide to Migrating from DataStage to Databricks I’ve spent more hours of my life than I care to admit staring at the DataStage Director log, watching links turn green one by one, and praying a job with 50...
How to Automate DataStage to Databricks Migration Using Python and Reduce Effort by 70%
The Real-Talk Guide to Automating Your DataStage to Databricks Migration I’ve sat in the meetings. You have too. The ones where someone puts up a slide with "Digital Transformation" in a big, friendly font, and right be...
Databricks Notebook Optimization: Best Practices for Performance and Cost
Databricks Notebook Optimization: Best Practices for Performance and Cost I’ve been in the Databricks trenches for a long time. I’ve seen projects succeed wildly, and I’ve been paged at 3 AM to fix production pipelines...
How I Saved $1 Million by Migrating Datastage to Databricks
1. Executive Context: Addressing Systemic Platform Risk For the past several years, our core data processing capabilities were centered on a legacy IBM DataStage environment. While it served its purpose historically, th...
Complete DataStage to Databricks Migration Checklist
Complete DataStage to Databricks Migration Checklist Author: Principal Data Engineer & Platform Architect Version: 2.1 Purpose: This document is an execution playbook for migrating enterprise DataStage workloads t...
DataStage to Databricks Migration Architecture Explained
DataStage to Databricks Migration Architecture Explained I’ve spent more than 15 years architecting and delivering complex ETL systems with DataStage. I’ve seen it power the core of banks, insurers, and retailers. It's a...
When Not to Migrate from DataStage to Databricks
When Not to Migrate from DataStage to Databricks For the better part of a decade, I’ve led programs to help organizations migrate their data workloads from legacy platforms like IBM DataStage to modern cloud environment...
Real-World Challenges in DataStage to Databricks Migration
Real-World Challenges in DataStage to Databricks Migration I've lost count of the number of kick-off meetings I've sat in where the slide deck promised a "seamless," "accelerated," and "automated" migration from DataSta...
Automating DataStage to Databricks Migration Using Python: End-to-End Guide
Automating DataStage to Databricks Migration Using Python: End-to-End Guide By a Principal Data Engineer & Platform Architect I’ve spent the better part of two decades designing, building, and maintaining DataStage...
How to Convert DataStage Jobs to PySpark Automatically
How to Convert DataStage Jobs to PySpark Automatically As a Principal Data Engineer who has spent over 15 years wrestling with DataStage and the last 10 migrating it (and other legacy platforms) to Spark, I’ve seen the...
How to Build a Python Framework for DataStage to Databricks Migration
How to Build a Python Framework for DataStage to Databricks Migration A Principal Engineer's Blueprint for Enterprise-Scale ETL Modernization For over 15 years, I worked extensively with DataStage, building complex dat...
Metadata-Driven Migration from DataStage to Databricks
Metadata-Driven Migration from DataStage to Databricks: A Principal Engineer's Playbook Introduction I've been in the DataStage world for over 15 years and have spent the last decade leading enterprise-scale migrations...
How AI Can Accelerate DataStage to Databricks Migration
How AI Can Accelerate DataStage to Databricks Migration As a Principal Data Engineer who started on DataStage when it was still an Ardent Software product and has since led multiple enterprise-scale migrations to Databr...
Top 10 Costly Mistakes in DataStage to Databricks Migration
Top 10 Costly Mistakes in DataStage to Databricks Migration After 15 years deep in the trenches with DataStage and the last decade leading enterprise-scale migrations to Databricks, I’ve seen it all. I've witnessed proj...
Why Most DataStage Migrations Fail (And How to Fix Them)
Why Most DataStage Migrations Fail (And How to Fix Them) I’ve spent the better part of the last decade helping large enterprises untangle themselves from IBM DataStage and move to modern data platforms like Databricks....
Hidden Risks in DataStage to Databricks Migration
Hidden Risks in DataStage to Databricks Migration For over a decade, I’ve been in the trenches, leading enterprise teams through what is often pitched as a straightforward modernization effort: migrating from IBM DataSt...
DataStage to Databricks Migration Anti-Patterns You Must Avoid
DataStage to Databricks Migration Anti-Patterns You Must Avoid In my 15+ years working with DataStage and the last decade leading enterprise-scale migrations to Databricks, I've seen projects triumph and I've seen them...
Lessons Learned from 20+ DataStage to Databricks Migrations
Lessons Learned from 20+ DataStage to Databricks Migrations I’ve spent the better part of my career deep in the trenches of enterprise data integration, with a solid 15 years architecting and managing complex IBM DataSta...
Databricks Performance Tuning After DataStage Migration
Databricks Performance Tuning After DataStage Migration By a Principal Data Engineer & Databricks Specialist A Note Before We Begin I've spent over 15 years designing, building, and fixing DataStage jobs. For the las...
How to Optimize PySpark Jobs Migrated from DataStage
How to Optimize PySpark Jobs Migrated from DataStage By a Principal Data Engineer & Databricks Specialist Welcome. If you're reading this, you've likely embarked on the journey of migrating complex ETL workloads from...
Databricks Notebook Optimization for Large-Scale ETL
Databricks Notebook Optimization for Large-Scale ETL By a Principal Data Engineer & Databricks Specialist 1. Introduction I’ve spent the better part of two decades in data engineering, with a significant portion of m...
Databricks Delta Lake Optimization Tips After DataStage Migrationer DataStage Migration
Databricks Delta Lake Optimization Tips After DataStage Migration A Principal Engineer's Guide to Production Performance, Reliability, and Cost Control 1. Introduction You’ve done it. The DataStage jobs that have been th...
Databricks Cluster Sizing Strategies for Migrated DataStage Workloads
Databricks Cluster Sizing Strategies for Migrated DataStage Workloads A Principal Engineer's Field Guide 1. Introduction I've spent over a decade leading teams migrating massive, business-critical ETL workloads from IBM...
How to Reduce Databricks Cost After DataStage Migration
How to Reduce Databricks Cost After DataStage Migration An Experience-Driven Guide by a Principal Data Engineer I’ve led more DataStage-to-Databricks migrations than I can count. Every single one started with a business...
DataStage Licensing vs Databricks Cost: Real Comparison
DataStage Licensing vs. Databricks Cost: A Real Comparison As a platform architect who has spent the last two decades in the data trenches, I’ve sat in countless boardrooms where the DataStage vs. Databricks cost debate...
How I Reduced ETL Costs by 60% Using Databricks
How I Reduced ETL Costs by 60% Using Databricks I’ve spent the better part of two decades designing, building, and fixing data pipelines. My career started in the era of monolithic ETL platforms, where I became an expert...
Avoid These Databricks Cost Traps After Migration from DataStage
Avoid These Databricks Cost Traps After Migration from DataStage I’ve been in the data world long enough to see several platform shifts. For the last decade, I've been on the front lines of migrating large enterprises fr...
Best Architecture for DataStage to Databricks Migration
Best Architecture for DataStage to Databricks Migration By a Principal Data Architect & Migration Lead I’ve spent the better part of two decades in the data trenches. The first fifteen were dominated by tools like...
How to Validate DataStage to Databricks Migration
How to Validate DataStage to Databricks Migration A Principal Engineer's Guide to Ensuring a Successful Cutover 1. Introduction: The Real Challenge of Migration I’ve led teams migrating thousands of DataStage jobs to Dat...
Data Reconciliation Strategies Post DataStage to Databricks Migration
Data Reconciliation Strategies Post DataStage to Databricks Migration 1. Introduction: The Crucible of Migration Success A DataStage to Databricks migration is fundamentally an exercise in trust. You are not just moving...
Ensuring Data Quality After DataStage to Databricks Migration
Ensuring Data Quality After DataStage to Databricks Migration An Experience-Driven Technical Guide 1. Introduction: The Post-Migration "Trust Gap" I’ve personally led dozens of enterprise-scale ETL migrations from IBM Da...
Performance Benchmarking: DataStage vs Databricks
Performance Benchmarking: DataStage vs Databricks By a Principal Data Engineer & Data Platform Architect For over a decade and a half, I’ve lived and breathed IBM DataStage. I’ve tuned its parallel engines, wrestled...
Best Tools for DataStage to Databricks Migration
Best Tools for DataStage to Databricks Migration By a 15-Year DataStage Veteran and Migration Architect After more than a decade deep in the trenches of DataStage, and the last ten years leading enterprise-scale migratio...
Case Study: Migrating 1,000+ DataStage Jobs to Databricks
Case Study: Migrating 1,000+ DataStage Jobs to Databricks By: A Principal Data Engineer & Migration Lead 1. Introduction I'm writing this as someone who has spent the last decade in the trenches of large-scale ETL...
How One Enterprise Migrated from DataStage in 90 Days
Case Study: How One Enterprise Migrated from DataStage in 90 Days Author: A Principal Data Engineer & Migration Lead I’ve spent the better part of two decades neck-deep in IBM DataStage, building and managing enter...
From Legacy ETL to Modern Lakehouse: My DataStage to Databricks Journey
From Legacy ETL to Modern Lakehouse: My DataStage to Databricks Journey The hum of the server room used to be the soundtrack of my career. For over a decade, I was a DataStage specialist. I knew its quirks, its power, a...
101 Common Mistakes to Avoid During DataStage to Databricks Migration
101 Common Mistakes to Avoid During DataStage to Databricks Migration I’ve been in the data trenches for over two decades. I spent the first half of my career building, debugging, and scaling massive DataStage environ...
Top Tools for DataStage to Databricks Migration
Best Tools for DataStage to Databricks Migration The wave of ETL modernization is cresting, and for many enterprises, that means migrating decades of investment from IBM DataStage to a modern cloud data platform like Dat...