Advancing Spark - Databricks In-Browser Interactive Debugger

There have been a whole host of improvements for local development with Databricks via Spark Connect, but sometimes it's just way easier to not have any local environment set up. Writing code in the browser has slowly been getting better, but it still sometimes feels like writing blind - but with notebooks now having a full step-through interactive debugger, things have just got a whole lot better!
In this video Simon takes some scrappy code and fixes it up using the trusty variable explorer and the new preview interactive debugger!
You can find more details about the new tool here: learn.microsof...
As always, if you're ramping up your data engineering efforts and need a helping hand, give Advancing Analytics a call to get you there!

[@NoahPitts713]

This is a great step in the right direction for the browser UI! Happy days ahead

[@paulnilandbbq]

Nice off to browser to try the debugger!

[@dell0816]

Hi , I have enabled “ Python Notebook interactive Debugger” but the “ Debug cell” is greyed out !

[@john-paulallard256]

Your videos are great. I am attempting a selective overwrite on delta tables but can not get it to work with unity catalog but I can with hive metastore. Any advice or pointers?