🏆  Contributors in the Spotlight

      Spotlight on the members who raised the bar🔥:

     @saurabh18cs  |  @szymon_dybczak   |  @pradeep_singh 

     + Top Brickster contributors:

     @Louis_Frolio  |  @MoJaMa 

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

🔖  Knowledge Worth Bookmarking

    From quick tips to deep dives – content that sparked learning and new perspectives:

💬 Discussions in the Spotlight

     Threads packed with practical insights and real-world problem solving:

• The best way to write and debug python notebooks
• How to provide env variables to a pipeline task
• [Simba][ThriftExtension] (14) Unexpected response from server during a HTTP connection: SSL_connect:
• How can I manage the code on using a Spot Instance?
• Clouds in Databricks

📢 Announcements

• Documentation Update | 19th - 25th January 2026
• Action Required: Databricks Is Updating the TLS Certificate Authority for Public Certificates
• With Databricks Agent Bricks, 7‑Eleven Cuts Search Time by 60% and Improves First‑Time‑Fix Rates

🎯 Questions → Answers 

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

• Unable to Create a pipeline in order to populate a table with Auto Loader
• How to pass a string as as parameter for EXECUTE IMMEDIATE?
• Non deterministic behavior from the cluster
• CSV Ingestion using Autoloader with single variant column
• Any open-source library or init script for exporting Databricks job metrics to Prometheus