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Data This Week #8
Pydantic as a schema contract layer for Python pipelines, hidden complexities in Databricks Vector Search, a stateless Kafka-compatible broker called Tansu, Capital One's GenAI Cost Supervisor agent, RAG as a data engineering problem, and the community's take on testing in DE vs. traditional SWE.
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Data This Week #7
Netflix's massive RDS-to-Aurora PostgreSQL migration, cutting cloud warehouse costs with DuckDB transpilation, real-time dashboards using PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY, deploying Airflow on Minikube with Helm, and the community's take on dbt vs. SQLMesh in 2026.
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Data This Week #6
Deep dive into Xiaomi's unified lakehouse with Apache Doris & Paimon, optimizing Top-K in Postgres, monitoring dbt runs, PostgreSQL internals, Netflix's DataJunction semantic layer, and community debates on schema evolution and the data engineering job market.
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Data This Week #5
Deep dive into Spark's DAG compilation, query federation with StarRocks, Pinterest's CDC migration, CyberArk's AI-powered support with Iceberg, Databricks Zerobus Ingest, and community debates on data quality tooling.