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Nidhig631
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Noticed the Genie UI update in Databricks!

NEW UPDATED UI OlD UIThe new Genie interface offers a clean and intuitive experience.It feels more spacious and less cluttered, with noticeably smoother navigation.What do you think?Which UI do you like more, the old one or the new one?#MVP    

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Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP
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the new one

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Hubert-Dudek
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Event-driven architecture: limit the number of updates

One of the key challenges is limiting the number of updates—especially when there are many consecutive inserts (e.g., from Zerobus). The AT MOST EVERY option in Databricks pipeline objects helps batch frequent events into controlled updates, reducing...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Update Pipelines on trigger

If any dependencies of your Materialized View or Streaming Table change, an update can be triggered automatically. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-5-26-january-2026-to-1-february-2026-d05b274adafe

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rkaushikk
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Azure Data Factory and Databricks Lakeflow: An Architectural Evolution in Modern Data Platforms

This article examines how modern data platforms are shifting toward execution-native orchestration. Using Databricks Lakeflow as a reference architecture, it highlights how unifying ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and governance within the ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Why Zerobus is the answer?

On your architectural diagram for data flow, every box is a cost, and every arrow is a risk. Zerobus helps eliminate major data ingestion pain points. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/you-pay-for-the-complexity-of-your-move-from-on-prem-t...

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Sudhir_G
by Databricks MVP
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Pro tip of the week: AI Coding Agents

My latest 'Pro tip of the week' blog, topic this week "AI coding Agents".  헣헿헼 헧헶헽 헼헳 혁헵헲 헪헲헲헸: 헔헜 헔혀혀헶혀혁헲헱 헗헲혃헲헹헼헽헺헲헻혁I recently listened to Andrew Ng during his Stanford CS230 lecture, where he made a remark, paraphrased here: 헵헲 헰헵헼혀헲 혁헼 헵헶헿헲 헮 헳헿...

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bianca_unifeye
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Why Databricks's Open Source Strategy Matters

  I came across a post listing the open source projects created by Databricks, and it genuinely stopped me scrolling.Not because of the logos or the tech names but because it reminded me why this matters from a business perspective.And yes, sometimes...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Google Drive Ingestion

We can now easily ingest anything from Google Drive. CSV, Excel, and Google Spreadsheets straight into a dataframe. #databricks https://medium.com/@databrickster/databricks-news-2026-week-4-19-january-2026-to-25-january-2026-9f3acffc6861

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protmaks
by Databricks MVP
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API monitoring of All-purpose clusters

A lot of Databricks spend isn’t “compute” at all — it’s paid idle time on all‑purpose clusters while they sit around waiting for Auto Termination. Databricks UI is great at showing starting/running/terminating, but it often hides the key operational ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Materialized Views' Policies

Finally, we can validate the Materialized Views' incremental materialization before deploying them. Thanks to new policies! #databricks https://medium.com/@databrickster/databricks-news-2026-week-4-19-january-2026-to-25-january-2026-9f3acffc6861

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szymon_dybczak
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Thanks for sharing Hubert - I love this feature!

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Chalapathi-Rao
by Databricks MVP
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Building Production-Grade Agentic AI on Databricks

Agentic AI systems go beyond simple LLM interactions—they require autonomous reasoning, multi-step planning, tool orchestration, and persistent memory to execute complex enterprise workflows. This blog explores the architectural patterns and producti...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Temp Tables + SP

Temp tables are even more powerful when combined with stored procedures in Unity Catalog. #databrickshttps://databrickster.medium.com/temp-tables-are-here-and-theyre-going-to-change-how-you-use-sql-eb2ed7aeb0dehttps://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/temp-table...

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Nidhig631
by Databricks MVP
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Not a new feature just one I noticed a bit late In Databricks, the ability to attach images and Url

Not a new feature just one I noticed a bit late In Databricks, the ability to attach images and URLs while sharing content is incredibly useful when you’re:Running live demosSharing a cheat sheetPointing teams to documentation or reference linksInste...

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Abiola-David
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New Google Drive Connector for Azure Databricks: Seamless Ingestion Just Got Real

One of the biggest challenges in modern data engineering is bridging the gap between business‑user data sources and enterprise‑grade analytics platforms. Google Drive has long been a favourite for teams collaborating on documents, spreadsheets, and a...

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Nidhig631
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My Blog: https://nidhig631.medium.com/ingest-google-drive-files-into-azure-databricks-f06d263d84ec?sk=6928d5c80827b1bd2e977c01708a321c#MVP Articles

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bianca_unifeye
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Databricks Knowledge Assistant is now Generally Available

Hi community I have the honour of being selected as a Databricks MVP 2026.Before sharing my first article as an MVP, I wanted to briefly introduce myself and the lens I bring to the Databricks ecosystem.My focus has always been on translating deep te...

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