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    <title>topic Databricks Advent Calendar Edition in Get Started Discussions</title>
    <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/databricks-advent-calendar-edition/m-p/140979#M11111</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Santa is coming to Lakehouse Town! &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":santa_claus:"&gt;🎅&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":sparkles:"&gt;✨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;From now until Christmas, I’ll be your guide on a Databricks journey – sharing one powerful Databricks feature every single day. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":christmas_tree:"&gt;🎄&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":rocket:"&gt;🚀&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bianca-stratulat_databricks-lakehouse-dataengineering-activity-7401652245177520129--eKh?utm_source=share&amp;amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;amp;rcm=ACoAACAAquYBNxGdiVq55HQzAMtInN9BMxBDySc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bianca-stratulat_databricks-lakehouse-dataengineering-activity-7401652245177520129--eKh?utm_source=share&amp;amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;amp;rcm=ACoAACAAquYBNxGdiVq55HQzAMtInN9BMxBDySc&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Imagine a house at the edge of a &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":snowflake:"&gt;❄️&lt;/span&gt; snowy village.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;A warm Christmas cabin… but with an identity crisis.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":right_arrow:"&gt;➡️&lt;/span&gt; On one side, it’s trying to be a warehouse: everything stacked neatly, rigid shelves, no room for surprises.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":right_arrow:"&gt;➡️&lt;/span&gt;On the other side, it’s trying to be a data lake: open doors, messy boxes, people walking in with all sorts of files, formats and opinions.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The result?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;A slightly confused home where nobody knows where anything is, but everyone blames the architect.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;This is what many organisations looked like before Databricks.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Two separate worlds. Two budgets. Two teams pretending the other one doesn’t exist.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Then someone, probably some bored phd engineers at Berkeley before Christmas, said:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;"Can we not just… have ONE place that does everything, please?"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":party_popper:"&gt;🎉&lt;/span&gt; Welcome to the&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;A class="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks/" target="_self"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Databricks&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;Lakehouse.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The unified home.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Structured + unstructured data.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Governed + scalable.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Analytics + AI.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Business + technical teams finally speaking to each other.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;No more identity crisis.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Just one architecture for data, AI and governance, all under the same warm roof.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;If Santa &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":santa_claus:"&gt;🎅&lt;/span&gt; had to pick a modern data platform, he’d choose the one that doesn’t require 12 elves to move data from one house to another. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":santa_claus:"&gt;🎅&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":sparkles:"&gt;✨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="The Lakehouse" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22067iB5AEC832A0208A9B/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="c7375573-96e4-4e55-8d40-21c8b93d1338.png" alt="The Lakehouse" /&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();"&gt;The Lakehouse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>bianca_unifeye</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2025-12-03T09:28:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Databricks Advent Calendar Edition</title>
      <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/databricks-advent-calendar-edition/m-p/140979#M11111</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Santa is coming to Lakehouse Town! &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":santa_claus:"&gt;🎅&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":sparkles:"&gt;✨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;From now until Christmas, I’ll be your guide on a Databricks journey – sharing one powerful Databricks feature every single day. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":christmas_tree:"&gt;🎄&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":rocket:"&gt;🚀&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bianca-stratulat_databricks-lakehouse-dataengineering-activity-7401652245177520129--eKh?utm_source=share&amp;amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;amp;rcm=ACoAACAAquYBNxGdiVq55HQzAMtInN9BMxBDySc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bianca-stratulat_databricks-lakehouse-dataengineering-activity-7401652245177520129--eKh?utm_source=share&amp;amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;amp;rcm=ACoAACAAquYBNxGdiVq55HQzAMtInN9BMxBDySc&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Imagine a house at the edge of a &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":snowflake:"&gt;❄️&lt;/span&gt; snowy village.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;A warm Christmas cabin… but with an identity crisis.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":right_arrow:"&gt;➡️&lt;/span&gt; On one side, it’s trying to be a warehouse: everything stacked neatly, rigid shelves, no room for surprises.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":right_arrow:"&gt;➡️&lt;/span&gt;On the other side, it’s trying to be a data lake: open doors, messy boxes, people walking in with all sorts of files, formats and opinions.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The result?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;A slightly confused home where nobody knows where anything is, but everyone blames the architect.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;This is what many organisations looked like before Databricks.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Two separate worlds. Two budgets. Two teams pretending the other one doesn’t exist.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Then someone, probably some bored phd engineers at Berkeley before Christmas, said:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;"Can we not just… have ONE place that does everything, please?"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":party_popper:"&gt;🎉&lt;/span&gt; Welcome to the&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;A class="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks/" target="_self"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Databricks&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;Lakehouse.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The unified home.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Structured + unstructured data.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Governed + scalable.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Analytics + AI.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Business + technical teams finally speaking to each other.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;No more identity crisis.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Just one architecture for data, AI and governance, all under the same warm roof.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;If Santa &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":santa_claus:"&gt;🎅&lt;/span&gt; had to pick a modern data platform, he’d choose the one that doesn’t require 12 elves to move data from one house to another. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":santa_claus:"&gt;🎅&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":sparkles:"&gt;✨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="The Lakehouse" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22067iB5AEC832A0208A9B/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="c7375573-96e4-4e55-8d40-21c8b93d1338.png" alt="The Lakehouse" /&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();"&gt;The Lakehouse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/databricks-advent-calendar-edition/m-p/140979#M11111</guid>
      <dc:creator>bianca_unifeye</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-12-03T09:28:07Z</dc:date>
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