🚀 Weekly Delta (10-16 September): A Look Back at This Week’s Top Community Highlights!

[Sujitha]

This week was packed with impactful discussions, fresh content, and helpful solutions across the Databricks Community:

📕 Learning

• From Your Instructor: How Can We Make Training Better? 

📍 Community Events

• Databricks DevConnect Mexico City | Sept 22 — Join us if you’re in the region!

🔖 Technical Blogs

• Performance Showdown: withColumn vs withColumns in Apache Spark 

• Scaling Geospatial Analytics: Efficient Visualization of Massive Spatial Datasets

• FinOps and Databricks System Tables

💡 Highlighted Resolutions & Best Practices

• Resolved critical issues around Databricks Free Edition, Autoloader failures, DLT cluster shutdowns, Serverless compute challenges, and more.

• Delivered best practices for calling foundational model endpoints with pandas UDF.

• Detailed guidance on moving/merging catalogs and service principal token federation on Kubernetes.

✅ 30+ community questions resolved this week — Thank you so much for all your efforts, keeping collaboration strong and knowledge flowing! 🚀

[BS_THE_ANALYST]

Thanks for this @Sujitha 😊.

30+ community questions resolved this week is awesome!👏. Big praise to everyone contributing to solving the problems! A big thank you from me to everyone who has been contributing. I've been learning loads this week by looking at the solution routes from the community members 🙏. 

All the best,
BS

[szymon_dybczak]

Cool summary of the past week, @Sujitha . It's great that we were able to solve 30+ questions. Let's keep doing great work!