Databricks Field Guide: Margin notes https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/ Margin notes from the engineers at TechFabric on Databricks: what the platform did, and what we read into it. en Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Databricks will keep your agent's memory, in Postgres https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/databricks-will-keep-your-agent-s-memory/ https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/databricks-will-keep-your-agent-s-memory/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Preetham Reddy Managed agent memory and sessions are in beta, both backed by Lakebase and usable from any framework. The state layer teams were building by hand. Databricks Lakebase News You can now share data you never loaded into Databricks https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/you-can-now-share-data-you-never-loaded/ https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/you-can-now-share-data-you-never-loaded/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Preetham Reddy OpenSharing now shares foreign Iceberg tables and foreign schemas federated from other systems, and the provider pays the compute cost Databricks News Unity Catalog LTAP Direct Writes is the first piece of the one-copy claim you can measure https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/ltap-direct-writes-is-the-first-piece/ https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/ltap-direct-writes-is-the-first-piece/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Preetham Reddy LTAP Direct Writes, in beta since 25 August 2026, loads synced tables by writing to storage instead of through compute. The first LTAP claim a team can time. Databricks Lakebase News Lakebase is compliant everywhere now, and the last excuse went with it https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/lakebase-is-compliant-everywhere-now-and-the-last/ https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/lakebase-is-compliant-everywhere-now-and-the-last/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Preetham Reddy Lakebase carries PCI-DSS and HITRUST in every AWS region since 8 September 2026, is on by default in compliance workspaces, and its APIs are GA. Databricks Lakebase News The growth is your invoice https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/the-growth-is-your-invoice/ https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/the-growth-is-your-invoice/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Preetham Reddy Databricks run-rate grew over 80% while customers grew a third. The gap is existing customers spending more. If you are one of them, that growth is your bill. Databricks News Pricing Databricks bought a Postgres because the lakehouse couldn't serve an app https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/databricks-bought-a-postgres/ https://databricks.techfabric.com/notes/databricks-bought-a-postgres/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Preetham Reddy Databricks bought Neon in May 2025 and now headlines Lakebase in funding releases. The lakehouse needed a real database, and that says where apps are going. Databricks Lakebase Databricks Apps