🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! January 12 – 18, 2026

[Advika]

Another week powered by sharp questions, thoughtful solutions, and meaningful knowledge sharing 💪.

From technical deep dives to insightful reads, here’s what shaped the community this week 👇

🏅 This Week’s Contributors

     These members helped move conversations forward with clarity, context, and helpful follow-ups:

     @szymon_dybczak  |  @Raman_Unifeye  

     + Top Brickster contributors:

     @MoJaMa   |  @aleksandra_ch 

📖  Articles & Insights

     A collection of articles and blogs that sparked learning and hands-on understanding across the community

• Community Articles
  
  • Dashboards deployment
    
  • Secure Credit Card Partner Enablement Using Databricks Clean Rooms
  • Mix Shell with Python
  • Databricks Serverless Compute: Performance, Cost, and Time-to-Value Explained
  • Window Functions in Metrics Views
  • SQL Scripting - Procedural Logic in Databricks SQL (Without Leaving SQL)
    

• MVP Articles
  • OCR Made Simple with Databricks AI Functions
  • DABS: New Plan Version
  • Let's talk about Data Governance
  • Automate Resource Creation using Databricks SDK for Python in VS Code
  • Databricks Assistant
  • Agent Skills
    

• Technical Blogs
  • 10 things you no longer need to think about (but if you are, here's how to fix it)
  • From Traces to Evaluation: An Autonomous MLflow Agent Harness for AI AgentOps
  • Combining Agent Bricks and ai_parse_document for Smarter Document Workflows

💬 Community Conversations in Focus

     Threads that shared insights, practical tips, and valuable takeaways:

• How to use/install a driver in Spark Declarative Pipelines (ETL)?
• Need the cost explorer
• Case insensitive data
• Databricks Serverless Pipelines - Incremental Refresh Doubts
• Testing Spark Declarative Pipeline in Docker Container > PySparkRuntimeError

📢 Announcements & Events

     Recent announcements and events you should know about:

• Learning series | Generative AI Application Evaluation and Governance
• Solution Accelerator Series: Detect Adverse Drug Events Faster with Databricks + John Snow Labs
• End of Year Documentation Update
• From Zero to Millions in Savings: How Ströer Transformed Advertising with Databricks
• From Data to Intelligence: GenAI on Databricks - Feb 22nd - Event
  

🎯 From Questions to Solutions

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

• Write both logging error Pyspark and Python exceptions
• Is Auto Loader open source now in Apache 4.1 SDP?
• Bug Report: SDP (DLT) with autoloader not passing through pipe delimiter/separator
• Cluster crashes occasionally but not all of the time
• PERMISSION_DENIED: Request for user delegation key is not authorized

This week’s roundup ends here 👏 – see you next week with more Community highlights! 🖐

[Raman_Unifeye]

@Advika - Thanks for the mention 👍 Great discussions and articles as always.