Perplexity acquires Carbon, Snowflake stock falters - Happy New Year Data Folks
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Orchestra Product Updates - Announcing Dataflow in GCP (Apache Beam)
Read more here:
https://medium.com/@hugolu87/announcing-apache-beam-orchestra-supports-google-dataflow-63d2fda0c98e
Build a Data Platform - don’t be a request monkey
Data Engineers scaling a data function for the first time get hell-bent on answering as many ad-hoc requests as possible
It is a better use of time to build a data platform anyone can use properly, with guardrails
Airflow and other complicated, complex orchestration frameworks exclude people from this, leaving you doomed to write queries for data requests foreveer
Orchestra is the answer to this problem. The best part is, it even runs dbt-core for you.
💡 Read more about the Orchestra dbt Core™️ integration here
Winter Data Conference
Excited to share that anyone using our special code HUGO50 can get a 50% discount to the Winter Data Conference in Zell Am See - check it out here.
Meme Drop
Medium 🧠
🧠 How to Start a Data Science Blog on Medium (link)
🧠 ELT with Fabric, Azure, and Databricks (link)
LinkedIn🕴
🕴 Wrapping Up 2024: Insights & Predictions for the Year Ahead (link)
🕴 The Data Waggle Dance: Lessons in Team Collaboration from the Hive (link)
News 📰
📰 Snowflake Announces Agreement to Acquire TruEra AI Observability Platform to Bring LLM and ML Observability to the AI Data Cloud (link) - note: from the archive, if you missed it this happened in May
📰 After the huge Snowflak stock shoot up, it’s down about 15% (link). Worth keeping an eye on.
**Editors Pick**
📰 Perplexity acquires Carbon (link)
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
🎥 The intersection of UI, exploratory data analysis, and SQL (link)
Special 💫
💫 Azure Data Ramblings (nice find) - link
💫 Follow data Jesus on Bluesky : https://bsky.app/profile/datajesus.bsky.social
💫 Startup Funding Dataset (link)
Jobs 💼
💼 Senior Analytics Engineer (Finance) at KOHO (link)
💼 Senior Data Analyst at Mon Ami (link)
💼 Senior/Lead Analytics Engineer at GetGround (link)
💼 Senior Analytics Engineer at Focal Systems (link)
💼 Sr. Engineer for Analytics Platform at Trade Republic (link)
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