Databricks blog watch

Platform and governance posts from the Databricks blog, filtered and accumulated.

uv run refresh.py blog reads https://www.databricks.com/feed, which only holds a few days, so this file appends rather than replaces. uv run refresh.py blog --backfill 7 walks the paginated engineering listing instead, for roughly six months of history per seven pages.

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Added 2026-08-08#

• Ingest semi-structured data faster and more efficiently with Variant - Now Generally Available — Aug 03, 2026 For years, ingesting semi-structured data like JSON, XML, or CSV meant a difficult...

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• Simplify AI agent orchestration with Lakebase Postgres — Jul 22, 2026
• Why R&D Data Belongs in the Lakehouse - and Why Agents Need It There — Jul 21, 2026
• Navigating a Synapse Migration to Databricks — Jul 08, 2026
• From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up — Jun 30, 2026
• A Decision Framework for ETL Migration to Databricks — Jun 26, 2026
• From test bench to lakehouse: how AVL modernizes measurement data analytics with Impulse — Jun 25, 2026
• Ingesting the Milky Way: Petabyte-Scale with Zerobus Ingest — Jun 11, 2026
• How the lakebase architecture stays resilient to cloud failures — May 27, 2026
• Observability for any agent, anywhere: Production-ready tracing with OpenTelemetry & Unity Catalog on Databricks — May 22, 2026
• How to Build Real-Time Fraud Detection using Spark Real-Time Mode and Lakebase — May 19, 2026
• How lakebase architecture delivers 5x faster Postgres writes — May 07, 2026
• Building with Databricks Document Intelligence and Lakeflow — Apr 16, 2026
• The next era of the open lakehouse: Apache Iceberg™ v3 in Public Preview on Databricks — Apr 09, 2026
• Announcing General Availability of Real-Time Mode for Apache Spark Structured Streaming on Databricks — Mar 19, 2026
• Building a near real-time application with Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase — Mar 06, 2026
• Announcing General Availability of Zerobus Ingest — Feb 23, 2026
• Introducing Python User-Defined Table Functions (UDTFs) in Unity Catalog — Nov 17, 2025
• Announcing the Public Preview of Zerobus Ingest — Oct 30, 2025

Added 2026-08-14#

• Databricks Network Configuration delivery to Tens of Millions of Serverless VMs — Aug 12, 2026 SummaryDatabricks' serverless platform launches tens of millions of VMs daily, and...