The Weekly Digest • May 18 – May 24
Community Pulse
From hot threads to fresh articles -- here's your week in community. 🗞💬
🏅 This Week's Community Stars
The members who showed up and made a difference this week (and yes, there's a new name here 😃):
+ Top Brickster contributors:
Note: Names are listed in no particular order.
📖 Knowledge Hub
📃 MVP Articles
- Profiling
- Global job parameters
- Genie One Menu
- Ingest Salesforce Data into Databricks using Lakeflow Connect + SCD Type 2
- Databricks Dashboard Automation: Schedule Refreshes and Share Insights Easily
- copy-pasting of job parameters
- From General Intelligence to Specific Intelligence: Context, Ontology, and the Enterprise AI Layer
- Automating Insights with Scheduled Tasks in Databricks Genie Interface
- Agent Bricks in Action: Automating Insurance Underwriting with a Supervisor Agent-Led Architecture
- Real-Time Voice AI on Databricks with Vocal Bridge and Lakebase
✍️ Community Articles
- Databricks Lake base Evolution - Mandatory Shift from Provisioned Instances to Elastic Autoscaling
- Access Databricks data using external systems
- From Fragmented Schedulers to Unified Orchestration: A Lakehouse Evolution
- Why centralized state forces distributed reconstruction — a three-part series
- CI/CD using Workload Identity Federation
- From 400GB to 35GB: Managing Delta Lake Storage Growth
- Databricks now supports importing Tableau and Power BI files into Genie Code to automatically build
- Databricks Container Services now available for Standard Compute - custom Docker images
📌 Technical Blogs
Straight from the Databricks engineering and product teams
- Sub-Second Agents for the Databricks Community: A Lakebase Pattern for Instant Context
- From Surprise Full Refreshes to Predictable Bills: REFRESH POLICY for MVs
- Do You Still Need a Separate Cloud Data Warehouse? Building an Open Lakehouse for High Performance
- [PARTNER BLOG] 847 Models, 12 Weeks, 77% Less: Inside R1's Snowflake-to-Databricks Migration
- Letting Coding Agents Move Fast Without Breaking Everything
- The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 1)
- The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 2)
- The Four-Minute Investigation: How AI/BI Genie Agent mode closes the gap between "what" and "why"
- Speed Up Data Warehouse Migration Validation
Threads that kept the community talking this week:
Learning Series
Solution Series
Customer Story
CUSTOMER STORY | NAB’s Journey to 100% Declarative Pipelines
CHampion Post
📍 June 9–12 • San Francisco
Bricksters on the DAIS 2026 stage -- check out what they'll be presenting:
That's a Wrap
This community runs on people who show up, share, and help – thank you for being one of them.
See you next week!
