🏅 Shoutout to Our Trailblazers

     Kudos to members sparking engagement – even more faces joining the action this week ✨:

      @szymon_dybczak  |  @pradeep_singh  |   @saurabh18cs   |   @nayan_wylde  |  @Pat 

     + Top Brickster contributors:

      @pavannaidu   |  @Louis_Frolio   |   @Saritha_S 

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

📖  Learn & Explore

     From bite-sized tips to deep dives that made us pause and think:

💬  Engagement Spotlight

     Threads buzzing with activity and insights:

• Whitelist for outbound network access?
• How to restrict Databricks Apps and Vector Search endpoint creation for workspace users
• DLT table reading not performing file pruning on partition column
• Intermittent PERMISSION_DENIED Error in Genie
• Bundled Wheel Task with Serverless Compute
• Serverless budget policies auto-application and resource limiting in Databricks

📢  Announcements

      Recent announcements and events you should know about:

• The New Databricks User Groups Platform is here!
• Community Fellows Roundup: January 2026
• MCP Academy Roadshow (San Diego, Austin, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Chicago)
• Documentation Update | 26th - 31st January 2026
• Learning Series | Building Retrieval Agents on Databricks
• Solution Accelerator Series | Build Demand Forecasts at Scale with Databricks

🎯 Threads That Reached Resolution

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

• DBFS directory listing has changed
• Questions regarding catalogs starting with __databricks_internal_catalog
• Communication between two workspaces
• Renaming a folder causes associated Jobs to lose the notebook paths
• Databricks Asset Bundles Issue