Google Next put agents in spotlight (again), iceberg summit highlights - it's conference season #79 w/e 11 April 2025
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This was a less busy week as it seems to be conference season. With Data Council in a few weeks right off the back of Google Next and Iceberg Summit in SF, it is interesting to see what’s going down.
There are going to be some big acquisitions this summer - expect these to be announced at Databricks and Snowflake summits respectively. We don’t know this, but we have a hunch.
Google Next
Iceberg Summit
Harder to found a good roundup of this, we will keep looking
Short recap from Paul (link)
If you find anything please put this in the comments!
Medium ðŸ§
🧠How inbound private connectivity for SPCS works (link)
🧠Mining Rules from Data (link)
🧠Key Essence of Various Data Strategy References (link)
Editor’s Pick
🧠How to Measure Real Model Accuracy When Labels Are Noisy (link)
🧠Announcing Orchestra’s Partnership with DataZen (link)
🧠How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs (link)
Editor’s Pick
🧠Every single BI Tool Ever Ranked (link)
LinkedIn🕴
Editor’s Pick
🕴 Catching Up with Cloud Innovators at Google Cloud Next '25 (link)
🕴 New Session: Chris Tabb on AI & Careers (link)
🕴 PyTorch MobileNetV3 as a Snowflake UDF — No APIs, Just SQL (link)
🕴 Orchestration That Actually Gets Adopted (link)
🕴 From Northern Lights to Neural Networks: A Chat with Juhani Vanhatapio (link)
News 📰
📰 Pfizer Accelerates Insights and Lowers TCO by 57% While Processing Data 4x Faster With Snowpark - Whether you're racing to develop a vaccine during a global pandemic or seeking new treatments for cancer or heart disease, timely access to data is critical for any pharmaceutical company. Yet the organizations with the greatest resources to achieve these objectives often face the biggest challenges due to data silos and the distributed, global nature of their workforce… Read More
📰 M&A Momentum: What This Week’s Deals Mean for MSPs and the Channel - There was a surge of M and A activity this past week, with six high-impact acquisitions reshaping the channel landscape. From AI-enhanced voice analytics and developer tools to verticalized R and D software, each deal offers insight into where the market is headed—and where MSPs, MSSPs, and channel entrepreneurs should place their bets… Read More
📰 Multi-cloud DBaaS provider Tessell raises $60 million in a Series B funding round - Tessell, a next-generation multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that enables enterprises and startups to accelerate database, data, and application modernization journeys at scale, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the total raised amount to $94 million… Read More
📰 Tessell Raises $60M Series B to Expand AI-Driven Multi-Cloud Data Ecosystems - SAN FRANCISCO, April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tessell, the leading next-generation multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that enables enterprises and startups to accelerate database, data, and application modernization journeys at scale, today announced its $60 million Series B funding round, bringing total funding to $94 million… Read More
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
Editor’s Pick
🎥 Create your first Microsoft Fabric Capacity (link)
🎥 4 Lightning Talks on Practical AI Workflows from Notion, 1Password, MotherDuck & Evidence (link)
🎥 Custom Scheduling and Orchestration in Microsoft Fabric with Metadata and Orchestra (link)
Special 💫
💫 Data Engineering Weekly #215 (link)
Jobs 💼
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