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Databricks Summit: Three Things That Tested Our Roadmap
I run an Iceberg lakehouse on Dremio, a Kafka platform, and an AI data steward I built, and none of it is Databricks. I went to their summit to pressure-test our roadmap, and three companies on stage kept pointing at the same shape: the engine is the swappable part, the open layer underneath is the bet that lasts.