August 2026 Databricks Updates: Omnigent, Disaster Recovery and Lakehouse//RT
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Hated this podcast? Why not replace us with an RSS feed: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/release-notes/#databricks-release-notes-feed Databricks platform release notes: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/release-notes/product Want some pre made data? Check out Caspers Kitchen for a 4 click deployment here: https://github.com/databricks-solutions/caspers-kitchens 00:00 Intro 00:43 Renaming 01:40 Open Sharing 05:52 Brickbot 10:44 Genie 17:53 New Lakeflow Connectors 19:02 Lakeflow Connect Query Based Connector 23:38 Omnigent 30:10 Iceberg and Delta 35:28 Managed agent memory 40:32 Lakehouse Real Time 43:56 LTAP 49:05 New Models 50:10 Managed disaster recovery 53:46 Rapid Fire 55:00 Outro
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