Lakebase Architecture, Nimble $47m Series B, EKS Support in Orchestra, MicroGPT#124 w/e 27 Feb 2026
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Announcing Light and Dark mode in Orchestra
And a full brand re-skin
We are so incredibly excited to announce our launch of our new Orchestra UI. Orchestra is your Control Plane for AI and Data #SinglePaneOfGlass. Read on to understand what this means.
For years, Data Teams have been wrestling with a multitude of “categories” and tools, like orchestration, transformation, observability, incident management, metadata, governance and cataloging.
This has meant that Data Teams have lacked a single pane of glass for AI and Data Operations. We are now in an era where that is all changing, and here’s how we’re doing it.
Scalability: AI and Data should be easy to scale across the entire organisation. This requires a framework that isn’t thousands of lines of python code. We believe a declarative scaffolding is fundamental for enabling this pattern.
Announcements: March/AprilAccessibility: anyone should be able to use AI and Data. This means making it easy for anyone to build and validate AI and Data workflows, be that via an interface or using AI.
Announcements: February/MarchSimplicity: the future of AI and Data is NOT in stitching together dozens of tools. Enterprise AI+data architecture should be unified and simplified. Orchestra enables this via a Control Plane approach, which combines elements of Orchestration, Transformation, and Metadata to enable a leaner Enterprise Architecture. We call this combination Reflexive Data Architecture
Announcements: February/MarchContinuous Reinforcement and Feedback: the system should constantly be leveraging metadata to improve itself and therefore continuously improve. We call this feature Continuous Reinforcement
Announcements: February/MarchGovernance: everything should be auditable, git and/or version-controlled and access-controlled. Authorisation and Access should be handled centrally when developing AI and Data Workflows in production; not in local desktop set-ups
Announcements: February
With the Launch of Orchestra this we are ushering a new era AI and Data. We are making it easier than ever before for Data Teams to work on the platform and not in the platform. We are giving more ease of use, control, and power to the people who are willing to dip their toe into the world of data and depart from the old ways of doing things.
There is a ton of stuff to come but in the meantime, check-out the below resources.
We can’t wait to see what you build!
Orchestra Product Features
NEW
Released our EKS operator - you can now trigger and monitor flows on Kubernetes in AWS
UI RESKIN! DARK MODE AND LIGHT MODE! TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
Improved Docs Site — CHECK OUT OUR DOCS AND ASK IT QUESTIONS
Workspaces - say goodbye to multiple airflow instances
Improved Lineage Filtering
This is incredible! Try things out below.
Medium 🧠
Editors Pick
🧠 Building a Self-Service Data Platform for Engineers and Analysts (link)
🧠 I Spent a Year Panicking About AI. Here’s What I Learned (link)
🧠 Fuzzy-match millions of rows in Databricks (2026) (link)
🧠 Detecting and Editing Visual Objects with Gemini (link)
🧠 Designing Data and AI Systems That Hold Up in Production (link)
🧠 DataJunction as Netflix’s answer to the missing piece of the modern data stack (link)
🧠 From Discovery to Governance: Everything You Need to Know About Sensitive Data Classification in Snowflake (link)
🧠 Real-Time Object Detection with YOLOv8 on Snowflake Container Services (SPCS) (link)
LinkedIn 🕴
🕴 How to Market to Developers in the Age of AI (link)
🕴 Speaking at Data Innovation Summit 2026 (See You in Stockholm!) (link)
🕴 A Game-Changer for Real-Time Analytics: Interactive Warehouses Are Here (link)
🕴 Why Snowflake Cortex Code Is a Force Multiplier for Builders (link)
🕴 How We Built a Git-Controlled Product Updates System with Mintlify (link)
🕴 Developers Just Got an AI Upgrade: Meet Cortex Code CLI Agent (link)
🕴 The Next Evolution of Orchestra: Control, Clarity, and Light Mode (link)
News 📰
📰 Snowflake shares rise on AI-driven growth outlook…Read More
📰 Truthset Introduces Databricks Integration, Improving Data Quality for Marketers…Read More
📰 Nimble: $47 Million Series B Raised For Agentic Web Search Platform Read More
📰 A Robot Data Startup Raises $60 Million…Read More
📰 Databricks announce Lakebase (link)
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
Editor’s Pick
🎥 Fabric Maps – Build a Live Geographic Dashboard Without Power BI Hacks (link)
🎥 AI isn’t going to fix broken data architecture — it’s going to expose it. (link)
🎥 Claude AI Tutorial for Data Engineers | Set-up Claude and schedule Claude jobs in MINUTES (link)
Special 💫
💫 Data Engineering After AI (link)
💫 Data Engineering Weekly #258 (link)
💫 MicroGPT (link)
Jobs 💼
💼 Data & Analytics Engineer (multiple levels) at Ledgebrook (link)
💼 Freelance Senior Analytics Engineer (dbt) at Sana (link)
💼 Senior Analytics Engineer at HeroCoders (link)
💼 Senior Associate, Marketing Analytics at Good Inside (link)
💼 Sr/Lead Analytics Engineer at GoHighLevel (link)
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