🏅 Who’s Leading the Charge?

      Showing up, sharing knowledge, and keeping the Community active – here’s who made it count:

      @Ale_Armillotta   |   @balajij8  

     + Top Brickster contributors:

      @emma_s    |    @Ashwin_DSA    |    @Louis_Frolio  

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

📖  Knowledge Corner

A fresh batch of articles dropped this week – from deep technical explorations to practical builds you can actually apply:

💬 Active Conversations

      These weren’t just posts – they sparked debates, solutions, and some seriously good back-and-forth:

• Apache "Spark Connect"
• Databricks DBR 18.1 access workspace files error
• Databricks kicking me out every 2 minutes
• Partition cols for a temporary table in Lakefow SDP
• Serverless notebook idle timeout — is it configurable? What exactly am I paying for?

📢  Announcements & Events You Can’t Miss

      Not a quiet week at all – multiple updates, events, and opportunities lined up:

• BrickTalks Industry Month: Real-World Data & AI Use Cases Across Four Key Industries
• Industry Month BrickTalk #2! AI-Powered Worker Training & Augmented Reality in Manufacturing
• Recording: Community BrickTalk: Scaling BioPharma Intelligence w/Agentic Clinical Ops
• Big update - Azure Databricks Lakebase is Now Generally Available
• Introducing Genie Code: Your Autonomous AI Partner for Data Work
• Solution Accelerator Series | Real-Time Point-of-Sale Analytics
• Learning Series | Building Single-Agent Applications on Databricks

🎯 From Question to Clarity

      Some of the posts successfully resolved this week:

• Behavior of the Databricks Asset Bundle using Github Actions
• Creating a sync table from a workspace catalog to a project
• Why this notebook is returning an error only when called by another notebook?
• How to get MLflow OpenAI autolog traces from PySpark mapInPandas workers (and some pitfalls)
• Iceberg native table Streaming in databricks

✨ That’s a wrap – for now.
The best part? This keeps evolving every single day.