What Senior Engineers Check First in a Databricks Cost Review
The investigation order that cuts spend without breaking prod
A Databricks platform lead told me how he opens every cost review: “The first thing I cut is the panic. The second thing I cut is nothing, until I’ve read the bill for an hour.”
That sounds lazy. It is the opposite.
When a Databricks bill spikes 40% in a month, the instinct is to do something visible, fast. Disable Photon. Shrink the clusters. Drop the au…
