Stay up-to-date with the latest announcements from Databricks. Learn about product updates, new features, and important news that impact your data analytics workflow.
Databricks has shared practical guidance for designing more polished AI/BI dashboards, with a focus on brand consistency, audience-friendly layout, and reusable theming across a workspace.
What’s new
Design for your brand: Dashboard themes let author...
Databricks is expanding its data and AI partner ecosystem with new capabilities across Marketplace, Apps, OpenSharing, Genie Agents, and the Partner Well-Architected Framework (PWAF), all aimed at helping partners build, distribute, share, and moneti...
Databricks is expanding Free Edition with five new additions - Genie Code, serverless GPUs, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Lakeflow Designer, giving learners and builders a broader free toolkit for end-to-end data and AI projects.
What’s new:
Genie Code...
Welcome to the family
2,800
new members.And counting.
DAIS 2026 brought a wave of new faces to the Databricks Community. If you just joined, welcome. This post is for you: what just happened, what Community is, and what you can do here.
What...
How do you talk with your data? We’d love to hear how you use Genie to enable business self-service, discover new insights, and make better and faster decisions from your data.
If you have a Genie story, please share it via this link and receive a $...
Passenger Data Processing Pipeline using Databricks GenieWe leveraged Databricks Genie to accelerate the development of an end-to-end data engineering pipeline for processing passenger-related operational data received from the business team.The busi...
Databricks is expanding the Partner Well-Architected Framework (PWAF) to help partners build on, connect to, and share through Databricks with more up-to-date guidance for the AI era. The framework is designed to give partners architecture patterns, ...
The Weekly Digest • June 15 – June 21
Community Pulse
DAIS was electric – and the community didn't hold back.Fair warning: this edition came out extra vibrant, DAIS had that effect on us.
This Week's Community Stars
A warm welcome to our newes...
The Weekly Digest • June 8 – June 14
Community Pulse
The week before DAIS 2026. Catch up on everything before the big one.
This Week's Community Stars
Shoutout to the members who kept the community moving this week:
@Brahmareddy
@balajij8
@S...
Databricks Academy offers the free Databricks Data Privacy course to help data engineers manage sensitive data more securely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As the second course in the Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks series, i...
Brand imagery plays an important role in how retail companies express their identity and connect with customers. The Creating Brand-Aligned Images Using Generative AI Solution Accelerator shows how organizations can use generative AI to interpret ele...
DAIS 2026 · Community Virtual Contest
The WinnersAre Here.
The votes are counted. The scores are locked. The final day of DAIS 2026 deserves a proper celebration.
A few weeks ago, we launched a challenge for our community — build somethin...
Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks to the Databricks team for their effort and dedication in making this event so lively and exciting.See yaa in the next cohort!
Databricks has introduced Lakehouse//RT, a new real-time warehouse that brings millisecond performance directly to your lakehouse data, so teams can support operational analytics, BI, and app-serving workloads without moving data into a separate serv...
Databricks has announced a broader set of OpenSharing and Marketplace updates for the AI era, expanding sharing beyond traditional datasets and making it easier to collaborate across platforms, clouds, and partner applications.
Key highlights
OpenSha...
San Francisco · June 15–18, 2026
Data + AI Summit 2026is almost here.
Four days. One conference. And a community that turns up for each other, in person and online. Here's exactly where to find us in San Francisco.
→ Explore the Summit → View the...
Databricks is expanding Genie Code at Data + AI Summit 2026 with a new full-page workspace for longer-running, multi-step data and ML work. The update is designed to help teams manage more complex development flows across notebooks, files, pipelines,...