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Data This Week #31
5 min readPandas vs. single-machine engines, Delta Lake 4.3 selective data replacement, PlanetScale's Neki, PyIceberg with Apache Polaris, Shopify's gisting, Sony LIV's real-time analytics, and a community debate on dbt development standards.
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Data This Week #30
7 min readAmazon acquires DuckDB Labs, AngelList's self-updating Markdown semantic layer, managing AI coding costs at Databricks, federated MCP access for AI agents, Glue 6.0 real-time mode, Polars 2.0 RC, and community advice on extracting from legacy on-prem databases.
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Data This Week #29
5 min readDuckDB v2.0's new PEG-based SQL parser, Cassandra's ACCORD consensus protocol for ACID transactions, migrating multilingual full-text search to PostgreSQL, stream deduplication techniques, the hidden joins inside Snowflake MERGE, and the community debate on enterprise data catalog alternatives.
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Data This Week #28
5 min readInstacart's Postgres-native search replacing Elasticsearch and FAISS, Netflix migrating batch workloads to Kueue on Kubernetes, AWS Dogwood for AI agent governance, distributed DuckDB with Quack, Debezium for CDC-driven event architecture, and the community debate on dbt Cloud pricing.