With the first day of December comes the first window of our Databricks Advent Calendar. It’s a perfect time to look back at this year’s biggest achievements and surprises — and to dream about the new “presents” the platform may bring us next year.

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Feature serving can terrify some, but when combined with Lakebase, it lets you create a web API endpoint (yes, with a hosting-serving endpoint) almost instantly. Then you can get a lookup value in around 1 millisecond in any applications inside and outside databricks.