🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! February 09 – 15, 2026

[Advika]

💥 Another high-impact week in the Community! 🙌

If you didn’t get a chance to catch everything this week, here’s your Community recap – highlights, insights, and standout moments. 
Here’s what stood out 👇 

🏅 Shoutout to Our Trailblazers

     Shoutout to members driving conversations, dropping insights, and keeping the energy high:

      @pradeep_singh  |   @saurabh18cs   |   @bianca_unifeye 

     + Top Brickster contributors:

      @sarahbhord   |  @Louis_Frolio   |   @emma_s  

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

📖  Learn & Explore

     From bite-sized tips to deep dives that made us pause and think:

Community Articles	MVP Articles	Technical Blog
Stream a CockroachDB Changefeed to Databricks (Azure Edition) Bristol's first ever Databricks Meetup Databricks AIBI: Moving from Report Factories to bAIBI Why Replacing Developers with AI Failed: How Databricks Can Help?	API Monitoring of Scheduled Jobs: Lakeflow in Databricks Async Refresh Skills for Sustainable AI Success with Databricks Tabs Restore UC traces Materialization of Metric Views Low-code LLM judges Agile and Databricks Google Sheets Pivots Publish to Power BI Online from Azure Databricks	Fine-Grained Access Control at Scale with ABAC Genie Metadata QA: Hands-On Testing Tips Apache Spark's Real-time Mode Use Case Focus: Ad Attribution Deploy Databricks Apps Directly from Git

💬  Discussions with Depth

     A lot of solid discussion around:

• Databricks Asset Bundles Deploy Apps
• Not able to setup external location via Catalog
• How to use Row Level Security on a Sync table in Lakebase
• Export Databricks Dashboards as PDF / JSON
• Identity column for streaming target tables using declarative pipeline

📢  Announcements

      Recent announcements you should know about:

• CUSTOMER STORY - How Lakebase Helped Quantum Turn 1.5B Records Into Smarter Energy Deals
• Documentation Update | 1st - 8th February 2026
• Learning Series | Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect: Build a Scalable Ingestion Foundation
• Solution Accelerator Series | Toxicity Detection in Gaming
• 🚀 Databricks Lakebase is now Generally Available!

🎯 Closed Loop: Problems → Solutions

     From Questions to Answers – This Week’s Resolved Posts:

• CDC / Event Driven Data Ingestion
• Sign-in with Google or Microsoft failed
• Error creating Git folder: Invalid Git provider credential although PAT is valid and cloning works o
• unable to create new catalog in databricks free edition
• Table listener

And that’s this week in the books.
See you in the next build. 👀

[szymon_dybczak]

Thanks for preparing roundup @Advika 🙂

[Sumit_7]

Great week! Thanks for sharing @Advika!