Databricks News: unit testing, OneLake federation, scoped access tokens
Summary
Databricks now allows creating Unity Catalog domains for business users, running JAR tasks on serverless compute, and federating OneLake data directly into Databricks. The platform also introduces in-workspace Python unit testing, new data connectors like HubSpot and TikTok Ads, and scoped personal access tokens for enhanced security.
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