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Databricks Lakehouse Architecture — the full reference

Ingestion, Delta storage layers, compute, governance with Unity Catalog, and the consumption layer — the whole platform in one animated diagram.

The trade-off I'd flag

The medallion layers are a contract, not a folder structure. Bronze is immutable, silver is trusted, gold is owned by whoever consumes it.

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