Solving AI development bottlenecks with Databricks App (with demo)
Databricks Apps hit 150,000 apps built across 5,000 customers, 6x growth, positioning governed data access as the real AI bottleneck.
“we're no longer constrained by the cost of writing code. Um, coding agents have proliferated. Um, code is cheap. But the bottleneck is enterprise data.”
Databricks product director Justin DeBrabant reported its Apps platform reached 150,000 apps built by 5,000 customers (6x year-over-year growth), framing governed enterprise data access—not code generation—as the key bottleneck in moving AI from prototype to production. The talk highlighted customer examples (Thales, Joby) but is primarily vendor product marketing, making it a moderate signal about enterprise AI app adoption rather than a critical industry shift.