The term “Lambda Architecture” stands for a generic, scalable and fault-tolerant data processing architecture. As the hyper-scale now offers a various PaaS services for data ingestion, storage and processing, the need for a revised, cloud-native implementation of the lambda architecture is arising. In this talk we demonstrate the blueprint for such an implementation in Microsoft Azure, with Azure Databricks — a PaaS Spark offering – as a key component. We go back to some core principles of functional programming and link them to the capabilities of Apache Spark for various end-to-end big data analytics scenarios. We also illustrate the “Lambda architecture in use” and the associated tread-offs using the real customer scenario – Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam – a terabyte-scale Azure-based data platform handles data from 2.500.000 visitors per year.