Databricks Unity Catalog ABAC: Attribute-Based Access Control
How ABAC in Databricks Unity Catalog governs row filters and column masks by tag instead of by table, how to wire it up, and when it's overkill.
Mory Kaba · 13 min readBlog
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Mory Kaba · 13 min read
Databricks Unity Catalog System Tables: Cost, Audit & Lineage SQL Queries
Unity Catalog system tables expose billing, audit, lineage, and compute data for your entire Databricks account as plain SQL - here's how to use them.
Mory Kaba · 11 min read
How to Build a Data Lakehouse on AWS for Under $200/Month with DuckLake
How to build a runnable data lakehouse on AWS for under $200 a month using DuckLake, DuckDB, Postgres, and a Terraform reference implementation.
Mory Kaba · 20 min read
AWS Cost Optimization: How to Reduce Your Bills Before They Spiral
Why reactive cost management is dangerous, how AWS actually charges you, and how to use tagging, AWS Data Exports (formerly CUR), and the right compute choices to get costs under control.
Mory Kaba · 21 min read
How to Fix Degrading Spark Structured Streaming Jobs in Databricks
Small files, growing state, slowing batches: why Spark Structured Streaming pipelines degrade over time and how to fix them.
Mory Kaba · 13 min read
Defining a Data Strategy in 2026
Most organizations don't fail because they lack data — they fail because they never define how data should drive behavior and decisions across the org.
Mory Kaba · 9 min read