@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ author: hamiltonh
1111
1212We recently migrated Looker to a Databricks SQL Serverless, improving our
1313infrastructure cost and reducing the footprint of infrastructure we need to
14- worry about! “Databricks SQL” which provides a single load balanced Endpoint
14+ worry about! “Databricks SQL” which provides a single load balanced Warehouse
1515for executing Spark SQL queries across multiple Spark clusters behind the
1616scenes. “Serverless” is an evolution of that concept, rather than running a SQL
17- Endpoint in our AWS infrastructure, the entirety of execution happens on the
17+ Warehouse in our AWS infrastructure, the entirety of execution happens on the
1818Databricks side. With a much simpler and faster interface, queries executed in
1919Looker now return results much faster to our users than ever before!
2020
21- When we originally provisioned our “Databricks SQL” endpoints , we worked
21+ When we originally provisioned our “Databricks SQL” warehouses , we worked
2222together with our colleagues at Databricks to ensure [ the terraform provider
2323for Databricks] ( https://github.com/databricks/terraform-provider-databricks ) is
2424ready for production usage, which as of today is Generally Available. That
2525original foundation in Terraform allowed us to more easily adopt SQL Serverless
2626once it was made available to us.
2727
2828``` hcl
29- resource "databricks_sql_endpoint " "endpoint " {
29+ resource "databricks_sql_warehouse " "warehouse " {
3030 name = "Looker Serverless"
3131 # ...
3232 enable_serverless_compute = true
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ place and setup correctly!
4444
4545The switch to Serverless reduced our infra configuration and management
4646footprint, which by itself is an improvement. We also noticed a significant
47- reduction in cold start times for the SQL Serverless Endpoint compared to the
48- standard SQL Endpoint . The faster start-up times meant we could configure even
49- lower auto-terminate times on the endpoint , savings us even more on
47+ reduction in cold start times for the SQL Serverless Warehouse compared to the
48+ standard SQL Warehouse . The faster start-up times meant we could configure even
49+ lower auto-terminate times on the warehouse , savings us even more on
5050unproductive and idle cluster costs.
5151
5252On the Looker side there really wasn’t any difference in the connection
0 commit comments