Direct mode is GA and is now the default for bundles created from the workspace (since 13th August 2026); it will become the general CLI default on 26th August 2026. Let's see what direct mode brings and what will come next. https://medium.com/databr...
I recently discovered a very useful set of Databricks icons for draw.io and Mermaid created by Eduardo Rabelo.For anyone who regularly creates Databricks architecture diagrams, documentation, presentations, or technical posts, this is something that ...
I recently switched from one to another Databricks partner company and encountered a subtle problem: my new Partner Academy account was empty, but my certificates, badges, and training history remained registered to the existing company.But you don't...
Stop Building Metrics Twice: How Databricks Unity Catalog Brings a Single Source of Truth to Business SemanticsRead Complete Article Here:Metric Views Databricks
It is great to see serverless in the compute section. Especially because I proposed it some time ago and lobbied for it during advisory meetings. Now we can set permissions for serverless compute. More options will come. I can say that it is my favor...
I was genuinely stunned to discover that Excel now supports DATABRICKS.SQL and DATABRICKS.TABLE worksheet functions . For years, analysts and business users have relied on exporting CSVs or building complex connectors to bridge the gap between enterp...
This is an important change after the introduction of Genie Code billing. Previously, administrators could configure budgets and notifications, but exceeding a threshold did not necessarily stop further usage.With the new Block usage option, you can ...
If you haven't tried Omnigent yet, you are missing out. Give a try and thank me later.https://lnkd.in/p/dTx3erHw
Adding other resources as well -- https://omnigent.ai/quickstart/install- https://github.com/omnigent-ai/omnigent- https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-omnigent-meta-harness-combine-control-and-share-your-agents
Thanks to the new column_object_metadata we have access to storage-level information such as MIME type, ETag, and other metadata. That functionality is for external volumes, as in some use cases that data was needed for ingestion. Just remember that ...
Unity Catalog secrets operations Create, Update, List, Read, or Reference are now in audit tables as well. I think that, aside from a clear permission model, it is the biggest benefit of storing secrets in UC. more news https://medium.com/databricksc...
How long does your business wait for a new report? A week? A month? Sometimes longer? The problem is often not Databricks, Spark, or compute. It's that every new dataset, metric, and Gold table has to go through the same Data Team. As the company gro...
x10 performance,x100 concurrency,price the same,impossible?not in databricks see benchmark https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-rt-lakehouse-benchmark-results
Picture this: you’re sitting in front of Excel, staring at rows of numbers. You know the answers are in there somewhere—revenue trends, customer behavior, performance metrics—but pulling them out means writing queries, exporting data, or switching be...
Don’t overwrite your code — make it immutable! With every deployment, thanks to immutable_folder, all files are copied to a new, read-only folder. They are not overwritten. The biggest benefit is that jobs already underway will not fail or produce un...
19 is already here, but 18 is now LTS. In a new naming convention, LTS doesn’t have a minor version. New features, behavior changes, and fixes are now added incrementally to the same major Runtime version till it becomes LTS. In fact, that approach s...
