We’re stepping into November, and while 2025 is winding down, the Databricks Community is only turning up the heat 🔥 — with fresh blogs, dynamic discussions, and events that kept the Databricks energy alive! Let’s dive into this week’s highlights 👇

👏 Top Community Contributors

Big cheers to our incredible active members who kicked off the month with full momentum, taking time out of their schedules to guide fellow Databricks users, share insights, and strengthen the spirit of collaboration 🙌

@szymon_dybczak | @nayan_wylde  | @Khaja_Zaffer  | @Isi  | @bianca_unifeye (new to the Databricks fam!😎)

➕ Shoutout to our top Brickster contributors this week, keeping the Community thriving 🙌

@Louis_Frolio  | @mark_ott  |  @K_Anudeep  |  @AbhaySingh   | @stbjelcevic 

🌎 Events & Meetups

• Free Edition Hackathon
• BrickTalks: Serve intelligence from your Lakehouse to your Apps with Lakebase
• Webinars on Databrivks hot topics: Agent Bricks, UC and Delta Sharing
• Join the Open Lakehouse + AI Community in Paris (Nov 24, 6:30–10PM)
• Databricks Japanユーザー会JEDAIのご案内

 📎 Technical Blogs

• Step-by-Step Guide to Building Custom MCP Server on Databricks
• Which AI Model Should Power Your Customer Service Agent? A Demo Using Databricks and MLflow
• Scaling Machine Learning with Ray and Databricks: A Shutterfly Use Case
• Eliminate Cross-Cloud Data Sharing Costs with Cloudflare R2 and Delta Lake
• How to Host an Image Classification Model in Databricks
• How to Install Packages from a Private PyPI Repository on Databricks Clusters
• Managing the bias-variance trade-off at scale
• SQL Scripting in Apache Spark™ 4.0

🖇 Community Articles

• ‌‌Cómo crear clusters en Databricks paso a paso | All-Purpose, Jobs Compute, SQL Warehouses y Pools
• Tracking Delta Table Versions & Operations in Medallion Pipelines

💬 Key Conversations

• Streamlining App Development with Databricks Marketplace and API Integrations
• EXCEL_DATA_SOURCE_NOT_ENABLED Excel data source is not enabled in this cluster
• Migrating SQL Server Tables and Views to Databricks using Lakebridge
• Looking for Advice: Robust Backup Strategy for Databricks System Tables
• How does Databricks handle versioning of notebooks or jobs, and what good practices should newcomers
• How to Stop Driver Node from Overloading When Using ThreadPoolExecutor in Databricks

🛠 Top Resolved Posts ✅

These are some of the questions and issues the community solved this week:

• Need help with setting up a connection from Databricks to an Azure SQL Database with the REST API
• Missing warehouse id/metadata for the system compute warehouse table
• Databricks アカデミーラボのDBCファイルはどこから見られますか
• Issue with spark version
• oracle sequence number
• Databricks Bundle Validation Error After CLI Upgrade (0.274.0 → 0.276.0) 
  

Every click, comment, and insight — you’re the reason this community is unstoppable ⛷. Stay tuned 👀 and join the action next week!