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Past issues

2 issues so far

Issue #2May 19, 2026· 2026-W20
Unity Catalog turned a corner. Plus the cockpit problem.
Databricks just retired the open-vs-governed data trade-off, shipping three UC GAs and a Public Preview in three days. Plus the Consumer Access entitlement that hides the cockpit from business users, and the launch of a public Databricks roadmap on brickster.ai.
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Issue #1May 11, 2026· 2026-W19
Genie 2.0, and the Databricks origin story
Genie quietly became Databricks' BI front door. Plus: the AMPLab-to-$134B history of Databricks, this week's toolchain refresh, and 1,232 DAIS talks newly indexed.
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