What’s new in Databricks for February 2023

Platform  Serverless Real time inference exposes your Mlflow ML model as a rest api endpoint. Databricks terraform provider updated to version 1.10.1 Variable explorer in Databricks Notebooks, you can directly  observe current Python variables and their value in the notebook UI. (Requires DBR12.x) Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code  lets developers leverage the powerful authoring […]

What’s new in Databricks for January 2023

Platform  We have added left and right sidebars to the Databricks notebook. You can now find the notebook’s table of contents in the left-hand sidebar, and you can find comments, MLflow experiments, and the notebook revision history in the right-hand sidebar. Databricks integration with Confluent Schema registry now supports external schema registry addresses with authentication. […]

What’s new in Databricks for December 2022

Platform  The workspace administrator setting to disable the uploads data UI now applies to the new upload data UI Memory profiling is now enabled for PySpark UDF.(Runtime 12) Jobs are now available in global search DBR 12.0 and 12.0 ML are GA Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.7.0 Databricks ODBC and JDBC drivers were […]

What’s new in Databricks for November 2022

Platform  You can filter by job name with the List all jobs operation ( GET/Jobs/List) in the jobs API Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.6.4 to add the warehouse_type parameter to the databricks_sql_endpoint resource to support additional Databricks SQL warehouse types, and more. When you click the Search field in the top bar of […]

What’s new in Databricks for September 2022

Platform  Databricks Runtime 11.2 and 11.2 ML are GA Support for AWS Graviton instances is GA You can use Data Explorer to search for tables  that are registered in Unity Catalog, only the tables that you have permissions to see appear in search results View and organize assets in the workspace browser across personas Table […]

What’s new in Databricks for August 2022

Governance Unity Catalog is now GA Delta Sharing is now GA Identity Federation is now GA Databricks SQL Serverless SQL Warehouse: Worker nodes are private, which means they do not have public IP addresses. Serverless warehouses use a private network for communication between the Databricks control plane and the Serverless data plane, which are both […]

Data and AI Summit 2022 announcements

Destination Lakehouse Focus on the Lakehouse as a next generation platform, merging data lake & lakehouse. Simplify all data with 1 platform for data & AI instead of a separate DW for SQL/ dashboarding. Benchmarks on Data Warehousing & lakehouse workload.  But beyond benchmarks & costs this allows companies to unlock advanced use-cases that we […]