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Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks) & Ben Horowitz (Co-founder & General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz) just dropped this game-changing RSA 2026 keynote. They show why AI‑driven threats demand moving beyond legacy SIEMs and moving to an open security lak...
The Weekly Digest • March 30 – April 05
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Fresh insights, top contributors, and technical deep-dives – curated for you.
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Shoutout to the voices driving the most impactful conversations:
@edonaire
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"We wanted one source of truth -- one Spark-based pipeline -- rather than two engines to maintain. Real-Time Mode gave us the performance we needed with the simplicity we wanted." – Aditya Kumar, Associate Director of Engineering, MakeMyTrip
MakeMy...
Databricks Academy has updated the Data engineering professional pathway. The course Advanced Techniques with Spark Declarative Pipelines is now live, officially replacing the previous course, Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipel...
Hello Databricks community team!I’m Tushar Parekar, and I’m thrilled to be joining the Community Team here. I’ve been a fan of this space for a while, so getting to help grow it is a dream.Please feel free to reach out if you have questions, ideas, o...
New BrickTalk: Turning Video into Intelligence at Scale on Thursday April 9 @ 9am PT
Public sector teams are sitting on massive volumes of video with traffic feeds, body cams, satellite imagery, but turning that into usable insight is still slow, ma...
Price transparency data from health plans in the U.S. holds the key to truly understanding healthcare costs – but it comes as massive, complex machine‑readable files (MRFs) that are tough to parse at scale.
What this solves
The Databricks Lakehouse ...
The Weekly Digest • March 23 – 29
Community Pulse
Everything you need to know from the community this week, all in one place.
Spotlight Contributors
Bringing clarity, curiosity, and confidence to the threads. Meet this week's top voices:
@Al...
At Databricks, some of the most exciting innovation happens when powerful technology meets real-world problems. That’s why we’re launching BrickTalks Industry Month: a special series of four sessions showcasing how organizations across major industri...
Is slow product onboarding holding back your speed-to-market?
Inconsistent data and complex stakeholder reviews often stall product launches. The Simplifying Product Onboarding with Generative AI Solution Accelerator removes these bottlenecks by aut...
Automate your data, analytics, and AI workflows with the Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow Jobs course. Learn to use Lakeflow Jobs as a unified orchestration platform to build robust, production-ready pipelines natively within the Databricks Data Intel...
Tired of email support tickets piling up while SLAs tick down? The Optimize Customer Email Support with LLMs Solution Accelerator transforms your support team from reactive support to a more proactive approach.
What this solves:
Businesses must meet ...
Earlier this week, Databricks announced Lakewatch, a new open, agentic SIEM designed to help organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven attacks. Lakewatch is currently available in Private Preview.
Lakewatch unifies security, ...
Things move quickly in the Community, and even a week brings in a lot to catch up on... Here’s your weekly snapshot of all things Community:
Who’s Leading the Charge?
Showing up, sharing knowledge, and keeping the Community active – here’s...
Woohoo, it’s Industry Month BrickTalk #2! For the entire month of Marpril (the end of March and beginning of April) we are bringing you industry use cases you can't live without! This talk is for all my Manufacturing enthusiasts out there (and anyone...