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Databricks has announced the General Availability of Unity AI Gateway, a unified way to govern AI spend, security, and model choice across agents, models, MCP servers, coding agents, skills, and tools.
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One control plane for AI: Manage acce...
"We’ve got billions of records, but scale only matters if people can use it. Lakebase makes that data fast and governed, so our teams answer client questions instead of waiting on specialists." ...
Databricks is sharing how its engineering teams use Unity AI Gateway to manage coding-agent spend across tools and models. By routing agent traffic through one control point, teams can combine centralized budgets, unified usage visibility, and flexib...
"Lakebase allowed us to move from traditional query-based KPI delivery to a low-latency serving layer where every metric is exposed as an API in milliseconds." - Michele Piunti, Data Platform Manager, PRADA Group
PRADA Group, home to iconic luxury b...
NBCUniversal partnered with EXL and Databricks to modernize its data platform, moving from a shared slot-based model to Databricks job-specific compute. The migration helped NBCUniversal reduce data infrastructure costs by 30%, onboard more than 300 ...
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Databricks has shared a practical walkthrough of what a real-time payment decision can look like on the platform, combining a Databricks App, Model Serving with route optimization, and Lakebase to score transactions quickly while keeping the data pat...
"We’re no longer just competing with other financial services. We’re competing with every brand on the internet trying to grab attention. That’s why our partnership with Databricks and Hightouch has been so valuable. Together, they’ve helped us build...
Databricks has introduced Automatic Upgrades for Unity Catalog managed tables, a capability that helps tables adopt recommended, generally available features automatically after Databricks verifies workload compatibility.
What’s new
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It’s been an exciting week across the Databricks Community — with new events, product announcements, and plenty of insightful technical discussions. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s been happening
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Thanks for putting this weekly roundup together! It is always great to catch up on what the community is focusing on.This week, I have been spending most of my time building data ingestion pipelines for the e-commerce side of things. We are currently...