Databricks

Volume 342, Issue 5 · 9 articles

In This Issue

• IP Functions Are Generally Available, Bringing High-Performance Network Analytics to the Lakehouse
• Real-Time Retail Intelligence: Building E-Commerce Recommendations with Lakebase and AI Search on Databricks
• A Practical Guide to Cost Optimization with Lakebase Postgres
• How to Scale Agentic Applications Without Creating AI Sprawl
• How Genie One Reshapes Work for Finance Teams
• Lakebase Postgres Branch-Based Restores for Fast Recovery at Scale
• Introducing ai_decide: Make Fast Decisions on Your Governed Data
• Connecting Customer Context to Measurable ROI with Agentic Marketing
• How to Choose Your First Genie Agents for Maximum Impact

IP Functions Are Generally Available, Bringing High-Performance Network Analytics to the Lakehouse (Databricks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026)

Databricks made native IPv4/IPv6 and CIDR functions generally available, with Photon-optimized joins up to 3.1x faster. Read more

Real-Time Retail Intelligence: Building E-Commerce Recommendations with Lakebase and AI Search on Databricks (Databricks, Friday, October 2nd, 2026)

Reference architecture for a real-time e-commerce recommendation engine on Databricks using Zerobus, Model Serving, Lakebase and AI Search. Read more

A Practical Guide to Cost Optimization with Lakebase Postgres (Databricks, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026)

Tips for controlling Lakebase Postgres costs: sync only working data, match sync mode to freshness and right-size compute. Read more

How to Scale Agentic Applications Without Creating AI Sprawl (Databricks, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026)

Databricks argues enterprises need shared infrastructure for context, models, tools, governance and observability as agents multiply. Read more

How Genie One Reshapes Work for Finance Teams (Databricks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026)

Databricks Genie One gives finance teams a governed AI coworker for variance analysis, scenario modeling and forecasting. Read more

Lakebase Postgres Branch-Based Restores for Fast Recovery at Scale (Databricks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026)

Lakebase Postgres uses branch-based restores to recover even 100 TB databases in seconds instead of hours. Read more

Introducing ai_decide: Make Fast Decisions on Your Governed Data (Databricks, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026)

Databricks' new ai_decide function returns fast, low-cost structured decisions from text, in SQL batches or via REST. Read more

Connecting Customer Context to Measurable ROI with Agentic Marketing (Databricks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026)

Databricks explains how agentic marketing ties identity resolution, customer context and incrementality measurement into one loop. Read more

How to Choose Your First Genie Agents for Maximum Impact (Databricks, Friday, October 2nd, 2026)

A five-criteria rubric for picking which Databricks Genie Agents to build first so adoption scales rather than stalls. Read more

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