Coreweave acquire Weights and Biases for $1.7bn, Servicenow acquires data.world #83 w/e 9 May 2025
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Yet. More. Acquisitions.
Who knew NTT Data were so big?
Orchestra Product Update
The Metadata API is live! You can now stream your Orchestra metadata back into your data warehouse. This means you can conduct sophisticated long-term analysis on your metadata in a structured way AUTOMATICALLY.
You can read the docs here
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Medium ðŸ§
🧠Considerations for Connecting Microsoft Fabric to Snowflake (link)
🧠The Dangers of Deceptive Data Part 2–Base Proportions and Bad Statistics (link)
🧠Blueprint for Tomorrow: The Next Era of Data Engineering (link)
🧠Parameterization in Azure Data Factory: Make Your Pipelines Smarter and Reusable (link)
🧠SNOWFLAKE: How to Document Database objects by an empowered Snowflake Cortex AI process (link)
LinkedIn🕴
🕴 Women in AI Research Podcast Nominated for Two Quill Awards (link)
🕴 Unlocking NULL-Safe Comparisons in SQL: IS DISTINCT FROM Explained (link)
🕴 The Realities of Solopreneurship with Michael Drogalis (link)
🕴 Humbled to Be Named a 2025 Data GOAT by Coalesce.io (link)
🕴 Databricks–Neon Rumors Signal a New Era of AI Infrastructure Strategy (link)
News 📰
Editor’s Pick
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📰 Privacy compliance and data governance startup GoTrust raises $400,000 in a pre-Seed round - GoTrust secures $400K in pre-seed funding from Aevitas Capital and a noted Indian actor to boost product development and global expansion…Read more
📰 Servicenow Acquire Data.world (link)
📰 CoreWeave acquire Weights and Biases for $1.7bn (link)
📰 NTT plan to take NTT Data private for $16.4bn (link)
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
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🎥 Dremio Spring Release: Customer Panel (link)
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Special 💫
💫 Data Engineering Weekly #219 (link)
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