Version 6 of the serverless environment is available, which corresponds to runtime 19. more news https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-serverless-genie-code-ltap-lakeflow-61853d8e422a
In the Unity AI gateway, it is also possible to register an external model for which we pay the provider directly (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). In that case, Databricks now knows the prices for those models and can calculate, monitor usage, and alert or...
Direct mode is GA and is now the default for bundles created from the workspace (since 13th August 2026); it will become the general CLI default on 26th August 2026. Let's see what direct mode brings and what will come next. https://medium.com/databr...
It is great to see serverless in the compute section. Especially because I proposed it some time ago and lobbied for it during advisory meetings. Now we can set permissions for serverless compute. More options will come. I can say that it is my favor...
Thanks to the new column_object_metadata we have access to storage-level information such as MIME type, ETag, and other metadata. That functionality is for external volumes, as in some use cases that data was needed for ingestion. Just remember that ...
Unity Catalog secrets operations Create, Update, List, Read, or Reference are now in audit tables as well. I think that, aside from a clear permission model, it is the biggest benefit of storing secrets in UC. more news https://medium.com/databricksc...
x10 performance,x100 concurrency,price the same,impossible?not in databricks see benchmark https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-rt-lakehouse-benchmark-results
Don’t overwrite your code — make it immutable! With every deployment, thanks to immutable_folder, all files are copied to a new, read-only folder. They are not overwritten. The biggest benefit is that jobs already underway will not fail or produce un...
19 is already here, but 18 is now LTS. In a new naming convention, LTS doesn’t have a minor version. New features, behavior changes, and fixes are now added incrementally to the same major Runtime version till it becomes LTS. In fact, that approach s...
Not yet an automatic update, but at least we can check whether our CLI version is up to date. #databricks My blog post with news: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f
Genie Spaces (now renamed to Genie Agents) are available now in DABs as … Genie Spaces. First, you need to run bundle generate to export your existing development Genie into a bundle. #databricks My blog post with news: https://databrickster.medium.c...
We can use Genie now, even in the CLI, with a simple ask command. #databricks My blog post with news: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f
If we set the REPLICA option in Postgres, we can then set CDF sync to Unity Catalog in the branch overview. #databricks more news and video https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf627
I hope soon it will be in DABS also LTAP is coming and is going to repalce that
In the Lakebase project, we can enable Lakebase Search. Lakebase Search is Databricks’ managed search capability for Lakebase projects. Under the hood, it exposes two Postgres extensions: lakebase_vector, which adds approximate nearest-neighbor vecto...
Lakehouse indexes allow not only to skip files during read but also, thanks to row-level tracking id to go directly to the given row and skip scanning other rows in the file. #databricks https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-full-text-search-index...
