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Unity AI Gateway capability maturity: four capabilities at GA status and four at Beta status as of August 2026, including routing, monitoring, Smart Routing, and MCP connectors

Databricks Unity AI Gateway hits GA: a governance guide

Unity AI Gateway is now GA, bringing centralized AI traffic control, provider routing, MCP governance, and cost monitoring under Unity Catalog.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 10, 2026

Databricks

Databricks RBAC public preview: the exclusive access shift

Databricks RBAC lets users assume a role with only that role's permissions for the session, blocking accidental access to sensitive data through accumulated grants. The feature entered Public Preview on July 22, 2026.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 27, 2026

Abstract data visualization suggesting sub-second query latency with a dense band of concurrent user connections, illustrating the Lakehouse Real-Time serving engine target workload of thousands of concurrent users with sub-second SQL reads.

Databricks

Databricks Lakehouse//RT: sub-second SQL reads in beta

Lakehouse Real-Time is a serverless SQL warehouse for sub-second reads against Unity Catalog tables. It targets thousands of concurrent users but only supports SELECT queries via the Statement Execution API, and it is in Beta.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 6, 2026