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Today is Community Manager Appreciation day! Big shout out to the Databricks community team!

Today is Community Manager Appreciation Day, celebrated every year on the fourth Monday of January, a tradition started in 2010. And I want to use it to shine a big, sparkly spotlight on my fellow Databricks Community Managers who and make the whole ...

Azure Databricks: Required change in resource firewalls allowlisting Databricks serverless compute

Background To improve serverless scalability and expand service endpoint support to additional resources, Azure Databricks will make a change to the identifiers used to firewall storage access from serverless compute.  If you allow-list Azure Databri...

New models

New ChatGpt models optimized for coding are available in databricks. Look in the playground or in ai schema in the system catalog #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-3-12-january-2026-to-18-january-2026-5d87e517fb...

How can I tell my Dashboard visualizations aren't stale?

With AI/BI Dashboards, a best practice is for the creator/owner to 'Schedule' the Dashboard to rerun the underlying datasets when changes have occurred. This ensures the Visualizations are rendered with the freshest data.  But users still will questi...

The Last Mile of Data Intelligence - Databricks Lakebase

We spent the last decade building a wall in the middle of the data stack. Data Lakehouse on one side - massive, powerful & analytical. The Operational Database on the other - fast, transactional, and vital for apps. The separation created a “last mil...

App Config

Now, directly in Asset Bundles, we can add config for our apps #databricks more https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-3-12-january-2026-to-18-january-2026-5d87e517fb06  

Why AI projects fail

Pattern I see in most AI projects: teams excitedly prototype a new AI assistant, impress stakeholders in a demo, then hit a wall trying to get it production-ready. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/95-of-genai-projects-fail-how-to-become...

🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! January 12 – 18, 2026

Another week powered by sharp questions, thoughtful solutions, and meaningful knowledge sharing .From technical deep dives to insightful reads, here’s what shaped the community this week   This Week’s Contributors      These members helped move c...

Row Filter

For some Lakeflow connectors, we can pass a filter to limit which rows are loaded. It solves one big problem: initial, full load from tools like Google Analitycs can be almost impossible. Thanks to row_filter, we can limit ingestion and load, for exa...

The End of an Era - Azure Databricks is Retiring the Standard Tier

Microsoft announced the retirement plan for the Azure Databricks Standard tier. This is vital information for Organizations still on the Standard Tier. It represents a fundamental architectural realignment that Organizations must navigate with precis...

Solution Accelerator Series | LLMs for Customer Service and Support

The LLMs for Customer Service and Support Solution Accelerator helps you quickly build an intelligent, context-aware chatbot on Databricks — boosting agent productivity and elevating customer satisfaction with LLM-powered experiences. Why This Accele...

Getting Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate (and What I Learned)

I just earned my Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate Certification, and in this post, I’m sharing the key tips, resources, and personal insights that helped me succeed. My certiticate from DatabricksNavigation:PreludeAbout the certR...

Databricks News: 2026 Week 3: 12 January 2026 to 18 January 2026

Lakebase experience

In regions in which new Lakebase autoscaling is available, from Lakebase, you can access both autoscaling and older provisioned Lakebase instances. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-12-january-2026-to-18-january...

Zerobus Ingest: From Lakehouse to Insights Now

BrickTalks is back! Ready to go from Lakehouse to insights fast? Zerobus Ingest is for you! Join us for a special BrickTalks session on Zerobus Ingest (part of Lakeflow Connect) on Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM Pacific (Zoom) and learn how to streamli...