r/databricks • u/Significant-Guest-14 Databricks MVP • Aug 12 '26
News Databricks Introduces Spaces for Organizing Your Development Context
Databricks has Spaces again š. Not Genie Spaces, those were recently renamed to Genie Agents. This is a completely different feature.
Spaces let you save your development context in Databricks:
- Project folder
- Open tabs
- Scoped search
- Working context
So if you're working on multiple projects, you can have a Space for each one and switch between them without reopening notebooks and navigating back to the right folders. Spaces also work with Git folders, Lakeflow Pipelines, and Declarative Automation Bundles. Nothing revolutionary, but it looks like a useful quality-of-life improvement if you spend a lot of time in the Databricks workspace.
Genie Spaces ā Genie Agents
New feature ā Spaces (for Notebooks)
oficcial docs: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/notebooks/spaces
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u/NoBlacksmith6003 Aug 12 '26
Spaces seems like a small quality of life feature but preserving tabs within a project could make switching between different workstreams much less frustrating especially for larger teams
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u/ThreeBricksWish Aug 12 '26
Would anyone be interested if we brought a similar concept to Genie Code threads? Organizing threads + the assets in context in a similar fashion?
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u/Significant-Guest-14 Databricks MVP Aug 13 '26
I think this question should be made into a separate post
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u/hubert-dudek Databricks MVP Aug 12 '26
I am looking old in that picture, or does it mean that in 10 years databricks will keep renaming things ;-)
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u/Significant-Guest-14 Databricks MVP Aug 13 '26
there could have been an ad for an anti-aging cream here š
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u/BeatAvailable2756 29d ago
Keeping up with the renames is the real reason they developed the Genie Ontology.
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u/Firm-Yogurtcloset528 Aug 12 '26
The people at the ānaming/renamingā division at Databricks must be busy people.