New Databricks features, shoehorned into one architecture to see if it's actually realistic.
OverArchitected: March 2026
Autoloader File Events — Now Automatic, New Foundation Models on Databricks, Stateless Streaming Performance, MLflow Traces to Delta via Unity Catalog, Multi-Statement Transactions (+ Delta Sharing), Supervisor Agent (GA), Metric Views — Window Functions and Filters
2026-03-04
OverArchitected: February 2026
New Connectors in LakeFlow Connect, Databricks Assistant — Skills, Agent Mode, and Docs, forEachBatch() in Spark Declarative Pipelines, Foundation Models — Claude 4.5, GPT 5.2, Haiku, Delta Sharing to Iceberg Clients, Knowledge Assistant is GA, Lakebase Autoscaling
2026-02-04