The DeWitt clause is anti-competitive and we should foster competition and progress. At Databricks, we are removing the DeWitt Clause from our service terms to encourage open benchmarks and research, and calling upon the rest of the industry to follow. databricks.com/blog/2021/11/0…

The new Microsoft Power BI release supports Delta Sharing, the open source vendor-independent data sharing protocol we launched with partners! Any Power BI user can connect to shared data without installing other software, so providers can reach more users faster. powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/pow…

Our customers have been asking for better SQL, so here you go! This blog post covers not only the biggest one, i.e. the switch to ANSI SQL dialect, but also lots of small features for productivity and migration from data warehouses over to Lakehouse. sprou.tt/13WFrzpQUK0

🎉 We're thrilled to introduce Databricks #PartnerConnect, a one-stop portal that makes it easy for customers to quickly discover & integrate a broad set of validated data, analytics & AI tools within their Databricks #lakehouse! See how it works: dbricks.co/3Cv1Q1W

Today, Prophecy is thrilled to join Databricks #PartnerConnect. Prophecy makes data users more productive on Databricks #lakehouse with its Low Code Data Studio that provides visual development, deployment and management of data pipelines. Learn more! bit.ly/3oAhHYi

We are starting a Seattle eng site! Launching a number of important efforts in Seattle, covering a wide spectrum of our product and infrastructure: frontend, distributed systems, infra, databases, security. databricks.com/blog/2021/11/2…

What time is it? ⏰ Time to submit your speaking proposal for #DataAISummit 2022! We welcome all data + AI experts to join us! Whether you have a quick lightning talk or 90-min deep dive, our community wants to hear from you! Submit your talk here ⬇️ dbricks.co/3psIztU

Big Coalesce drop: Databricks is launching a new dedicated dbt-databricks adapter, now in public preview. What does this mean? 🛠️ Even simpler installation process ✔️ Even better use of key Databricks functionality 📈 Even better performance Read more: hubs.li/Q010lx2D0

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Het leven en welzijn van 7,5 miljoen kinderen in #Oekraïne wordt bedreigd. 🆘 UNICEF is ter plaatse en biedt noodhulp. Doneer nu en help kinderen in nood: unicef.nl/oekraine

Getting ML into production is hard. The handoff between data scientists and MLE is messy, slow, and prone to human error. At Databricks we're working to design a tool to help data scientists build robust ML pipelines for production. Join the discussion: github.com/mlflow/mlflow/…

First big announcement - Spark Connect, a thin client abstraction for spark! #DataAISummit

.Delta Lake just got even better. Meet #DeltaLake 2.0, now *entirely* open source. Michael Armbrust shares how the latest features improve performance & manageability. #DataAISummit

VP of Engineering Dave Weinstein on how #Lakehouse is helping Adobe solve some of the biggest challenges around #data + personalization at scale. #DataAISummit

BIG NEWS! The Delta Lake project announces the availability of 2.0 Release Candidate: hubs.la/Q01fNn2J0 #OpenSource #DeltaLake Delta Lake

MLflow Pipelines is a big addition to MLflow to tackle one of the biggest problems we see: collaborating on ML across data science and operational teams. You can now create templates that make your ML app easily productionizable and operable at all times. databricks.com/blog/2022/06/2…

Insightful benchmark of Linux Foundation Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg by Brooklyn Data Co. (a Velir company) that shows Delta is up to 8x faster in workloads with data updates. Most storage benchmarks only test reads, but with updates, care is needed to maintain performance. brooklyndata.co/blog/benchmark…

Great insights from Andrei Ionescu on #snowpark vs #spark linkedin.com/posts/andreiio…

DONDA is the new FAANG Deepmind Open AI Nvidia Databricks Anthropic