Review of Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 (14 minute read) (opens in new tab)

Databricks' big 2026 announcements are about simplifying data architecture: Lakehouse//RT aims to serve real-time apps and dashboards directly from the lakehouse, while LTAP tries to unify transactional and analytical workloads on one governed copy of data instead of relying on separate databases, CDC, ETL, and serving layers.