Ali Ghodsi

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Databricks CEO & Co-founder, UC Berkeley Faculty

Lakebase Postgres Powers Agents with Human‑Speed Data Access
SocialMar 30, 2026

Lakebase Postgres Powers Agents with Human‑Speed Data Access

@JeffDean says it best, the problem in this new agentic era is "tools designed for human speed interaction". That's why we think agents love 𝗟𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀, it can branch, snapshot, scale up and down in a second, orders of magnitude...

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Databricks RTM Beats Flink, No Batching Needed
SocialMar 2, 2026

Databricks RTM Beats Flink, No Batching Needed

#1 thing people don't know about Databricks and Apache Spark: the performance of Real-Time Mode (RTM), it's faster than Apache Flink and more robust. No more batching.

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From $600K to $1.29B: A Decade of Growth
SocialMar 2, 2026

From $600K to $1.29B: A Decade of Growth

Exactly 10 years ago (Jan 2016), I stepped in as CEO. We had just closed out Q4 with a total of $600k in revenue (screenshot from board deck). Fast forward a decade. Q4 audited GAAP Revenue: $1,290M and over $5.4B...

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AI Tools Remove Data Barriers, Driving Explosive Growth
SocialFeb 9, 2026

AI Tools Remove Data Barriers, Driving Explosive Growth

I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and...

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Master Databricks Agent Skills with Gavita’s Tutorial
SocialJan 21, 2026

Master Databricks Agent Skills with Gavita’s Tutorial

Checkout this video of how to use Agent Skills in Databricks. 👩🏽🔬 Gavita does a great job in this video.

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Lakeflow’s External Orchestration Now Powers Multi‑Cloud Workflows
SocialDec 30, 2025

Lakeflow’s External Orchestration Now Powers Multi‑Cloud Workflows

Yes, since we added "External Orchestration" to Lakeflow more and more ppl use it to orchestrate all their estate, not just Databricks jobs/Spark etc, but also EC2 machines, other platforms (e.g. Snowflake), scripts, etc.

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Reliability Drives Massive Shift From Airflow to Lakeflow
SocialDec 11, 2025

Reliability Drives Massive Shift From Airflow to Lakeflow

This post explains why we've seen massive migration from Airflow to Lakeflow in Databricks over the last 3 years. We started 3 years ago to focus on these workloads because reliability is the most important thing when you're running data...

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Unity Catalog: Our Top Priority for Interoperability and Openness
SocialDec 1, 2025

Unity Catalog: Our Top Priority for Interoperability and Openness

I think Unity Catalog is the most important product we have developed at Databricks! This year we spend all our energy focus on UC interoperability and openness!

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Databricks on AWS Now 10x Easier to Deploy
SocialNov 24, 2025

Databricks on AWS Now 10x Easier to Deploy

This is super awesome, it just became 10x easier to setup Databricks on AWS!

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Gartner MQ Leaders: Unifying Lakehouse & Lakebase for AI
SocialNov 22, 2025

Gartner MQ Leaders: Unifying Lakehouse & Lakebase for AI

Gartner's MQ on Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) is out and we're leaders again! Thanks to all our customers and all the teams working on improving our Lakehouse DW and Lakebase Postgres! We're really excited about the unification of Lakehouse...

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Celebrating 8 Years, Expanding Microsoft Partnership for Next Decade
SocialNov 19, 2025

Celebrating 8 Years, Expanding Microsoft Partnership for Next Decade

Super excited to deepen our partnership with Microsoft . Thanks Scott Guthrie for this partnership which we announced together 8 years ago! Looking forward to the next decade together. Check out our Ignite video below.

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Generate Action Items Directly From Reviews with Gemini 3
SocialNov 19, 2025

Generate Action Items Directly From Reviews with Gemini 3

Try Gemini 3 on Databricks. It's as simple as: SELECT review, ai_query("databricks-gemini-3-pro", CONCAT("Generate action items for us based on this review: ", review)) FROM samples.bakehouse.media_customer_reviews LIMIT 1 https://lnkd.in/gK3rF5Dr

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Databricks Unifies Iceberg V3 and Delta Lake
SocialNov 18, 2025

Databricks Unifies Iceberg V3 and Delta Lake

Super excited to announce Apache Iceberg v3 support in Databricks! This marks the unification of the data plane of Iceberg and Delta Lake inside Databricks. Great job by everyone in the community that made this possible! https://lnkd.in/gvBqW-Hi

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Junta Explores AI Transforming Financial Services
SocialNov 14, 2025

Junta Explores AI Transforming Financial Services

This is a great interview with Junta by Josue on AI usage in Financial Services! https://lnkd.in/gd7psQE2

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