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Databricks dropped some things lately. Some expected. Some overdue. One genuinely surprising 👀 . Missed the latest Databricks releases? Here's your 60-second catch-up from the DATAPAO Release Notes podcast. 🎙️ We got into all of it. - link in comment ⤵️ Gábor Tompa

Couldn't make it to San Francisco? We will be right here in London — and we'd love to see you! Big screen. Live stream. London's data & AI community, all in one room. 🎬 We're proud to be sponsoring the London Watch Party for the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026! 🍿 🍕 🗓️ Tuesday, 16 June 2026 | 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM 📍 Vue Cinema West End, Leicester Square, London This year's summit is shaping up to be one of the most innovation-packed yet. AI agents, Genie, Lakebase, and the future of the Data Intelligence Platform, all delivered live on the big screen with Ali Ghodsi's opening keynote leading the way. If you're thinking about how organisations move from AI experimentation to real, production-ready value, stop by our stand and talk with our experts. And yes - we've got surprises lined up for everyone who visits 🎁 . Register your interest to attend below 👇 : https://lnkd.in/dhkbUi-f #Databricks #Datapao #AI #DataAI #London

The countdown to the Databricks Data & AI Summit is officially on! 🌉🔥 We want to bring that energy✨ (and all the key learnings📚) back home to you. Just a week after the event, we’re hosting a live meetup to give you a completely pragmatic overview on what those major platform announcements actually mean for your day-to-day work. Our CEO, Máté Gulyás, and Tunde Xintia Gyenge (Solution Architect at Databricks) are teaming up to bring the most important innovations and global trends straight to you. This isn’t just a news recap - it’s a tactical session on the massive shifts coming to the platform, including: 💡 Analytics Reimagined: Xintia is going to take us under the hood of Genie spaces to show how natural language is fundamentally shifting how our stakeholders interact with data. ⚙️ Summit Recap Built for Real Use Cases: Máté will be fresh off the plane from SF, ready to break down how these new features actually translate into production-ready data workflows and everyday implementation. We want this to be a true community evening, so after the deep dives and an open Q&A panel, we’re hosting a networking session with drinks, finger foods, and some thematic San Francisco treats on the house. 🍔🍩 If you’re working with Databricks in Hungary, mark June 25th in your calendar. 📅 June 25th, 18:00 📍 KLUSTER Budapest 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dSKzFXNd See you there! — The DATAPAO Team #Databricks #DataAISummit #GenerativeAI #DataEngineering #BudapestDataCommunity #DATAPAO

Just finished an amazing workshop in Copenhagen on Databricks Data & AI tools for Danske Bank, Denmark's largest bank. With over 200 participants from across the organisation, the aim was to shed light on the platform's capabilities to vastly improve data access & discovery, governance & compliance, and dramatically reduce the time and effort required to create ad-hoc analyses. Thus, Unity Catalog and Genie Spaces were the words of the day :). Thank you, Bence Tóth, Judit Mokos, Alia Podrezova and Matthew Quinn for running such an amazing event and answering the tons of questions from a truly engaged audience. And thank you, Haw-Yan Man and Simone Kähler-Larsen for organising the workshop and for welcoming us to Danske Bank headquarters. #Datapao #Databricks #DanskeBank

Databricks named 3 different products "Genie" Is it a coding assistant? A no-code analytics tool? A full AI data app? Yes. Yes. And yes ✔️ Watch the 60-sec breakdown 👇 Gábor Tompa #Genie #Databricks #Datapao

Every data engineer has that one pipeline. The one that "just works" but nobody really understands anymore. The one that breaks at 2am. A lot of this week's Databricks updates are quietly aimed at killing exactly that kind of setup 🔥 . No more duct-taping your OLTP and OLAP pipelines together. No more "which runtime version was stable again?" New episode of the Release Notes Podcast is out! 🎙️ Here's what landed: 💠 Lakehouse Sync bridges your operational Lakebase database directly to Delta Lake via CDC — finally, one platform for both transactional and analytical workloads, no custom ingestion layer needed. 💠 Runtime versioning gets a makeover from v19 onwards: one version, auto-promoted to GA, 3-year LTS. Simpler, more predictable, easier to govern. 💠 Automatic Identity Management with Entra ID and Okta means onboarding a business user to a Genie Space is now a one-click operation instead of a SCIM configuration nightmare. 💠 Genie gets smarter — you can now define workspace-level instructions so your AI assistant actually speaks your company's language across every chat. 👉 On top of that: new managed connectors (HubSpot GA, Outlook/GitHub/Smartsheet in beta), uv pip support in serverless notebooks for faster cold starts, Qwen 3.5 122B available as a hosted model, and Catalog Managed Commits hitting GA for proper multi-table transaction governance. A lot moved from preview to production this cycle. ➡️ Worth a listen 🎙️: https://lnkd.in/dXd8FPRE #Databricks #DataEngineering #DataPlatform #ReleaseNotes

As promised in our earlier post, we’re back to share the full details behind the SpiceUp Data Engineering Academy. 🌶️🚀 Let’s start with the WHY. Why launch this program now, in a world where many companies have stopped hiring juniors altogether. "We believe that only by building a strong internal talent pipeline can we meet our growth ambitions. Some of our strongest consultants today joined DATAPAO as Juniors just a few years ago. They are the quintessential DATAPAO stories, where hard work and learning create success. We want to replicate those stories." - Máté Gulyás, CEO of DATAPAO Enablement is in our DNA. We already have a world-class team training thousands of professionals globally—now, we are turning that engine inward to find and grow our own future talent. But make no mistake: this is not a classroom. As one of our lead mentors says: "It’s an intense, steep climb—hence the ‘spicy’ name. It will push you out of your comfort zone and challenge you in every way possible, but you’ll come out the other side battle-tested and years ahead of your peers." - András Fülöp, Engineering Manager The SpiceUP Data Engineering Academy is not a typical boring bootcamp or internship. It’s a 6-month, high-intensity "blended" journey designed to bridge the gap between "I can code" and "I can deliver global projects”. What’s in it for you? 🤔 •We invest in you from Day 1: You start with a permanent contract and a total compensation of 1.15M HUF/month (plus benefits). •The "Blended" Edge: Master the Databricks & Spark stack while learning the consulting habits needed to deliver business value in high-pressure environments. •World-Class Mentorship: You’ll shadow the best in the business on global client calls, seeing exactly how complex data puzzles are solved for EMEA and US customers. We are looking for the next 5 success stories—whether you are a final-year STEM student, a fresh grad, or an early-career professional hungry for a massive step up. Ready to handle the heat? Skip the "junior struggle" and start building a real career with us. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dtjq7QGz https://lnkd.in/dzVC_dYi #DataEngineering #Databricks #Spark #SpiceUpAcademy #DATAPAO #HiringBudapest #TechCareers #EarlyCareers #Data #AI

🔥 Craft Conference is calling. Can you handle the (Data) heat? The DATAPAO team is back at Craft (June 4-5) with a brand-new booth activity! We're known for testing limits—not just talking about data—and this year, we’re taking it to the next level. 🌶️ Introducing: The Spicy Data Wavelength Challenge. 📊 How to play: 1️⃣ Rate 10 technical "Hot Takes" on a scale of 🧘 Sweet Chili to 💀 Carolina Reaper. 2️⃣ Match the "Data Wavelength" ratings of our experts. 3️⃣ Win exclusive spicy gift bundles! Thinking of joining a team of experts who handle the heat every day? We’re growing! If you love solving complex engineering puzzles, check out our open roles here: 👉 http://datapao.com/careers 📍 Find us at the Railway Museum on June 4-5. See you there! #CRAFTConf #DataEngineering #Datapao #AI #CloudEngineering #Databricks #TechCareers #BudapestTech #Data

We did not have to do this 😂. But last weekend we signed up for Tough Mudder London West anyway. 👉 12k, ice baths, electric shocks, walls that were definitely taller than advertised 👀. Team DATAPAO x Databricks made it through every single obstacle ⚡. Moments like these remind us why we love working with the people we do. We're a team not just in the office, but out in the field. (Or in this case… in the mud 🏃♂️➡️ .) Big thanks to everyone who pushed their limits and showed up for each other.  #ToughMudder #TeamBuilding #Datapao #Databricks

🎙️ New episode of Release Notes is out — and this week, it's all about Databricks going all-in on #Genie. This week Benedek Kiss went solo to break down the latest Databricks release, Gábor Tompa is out, but don't worry, he'll be back next episode! Databricks One has been renamed to Genie. And yes, the naming can get a bit confusing, but it actually makes sense once you see the full picture: · Genie = the entire conversational analytics ecosystem (formerly Databricks One) · Genie Spaces = the domain-specific data chat experience (formerly just "Genie") · Genie Code = the AI coding assistant (formerly Databricks Assistant) Everything is Genie. 🧞 Beyond the rebranding, there's a lot of substance in this release. Here are the highlights: 💻 Genie Code builds your Genie Space for you Ask it to generate instructions, SQL expressions, joins - it inspects your data and does the setup. Like prompting an AI to write its own system prompt. 🗓️ Scheduled tasks via natural language "Send me a flight delay report every morning at 8 AM" - that's the whole setup. Genie creates it, runs it, emails you. No dashboards, no cron jobs. 🤖 GPT-5.5 & 5.5 Pro on Databricks - same day availability OpenAI ships it on April 23, Databricks has it on April 24. No delay between frontier model releases and your workflows. ✳️ Supervisor agents just got a lot more composable Custom MCP servers, sub-agents via Databricks Apps, SDK support - the agent framework is quietly becoming very powerful. 🔌 A bunch of GAs including Lakeflow pipeline editor Code, graph view, and related files in one place. Workspace base environments, Confluence & Zendesk connectors, ABAC all hit GA. ⤵️ Links to release notes and related sites are in the video description: https://lnkd.in/gSAA5KNq #Databricks #DataEngineering #DataPlatform #ReleaseNotes