Rivery Acquired for $100m, Databricks Raises $10bn. Roundup #63 w/e 20 Dec 2024
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This was a very big week with increasing consolidation and M&A activity in the data market looking likely. It clearly just can’t wait for 2025. Databricks, the Data and AI Company, have raised the biggest venture round ever in a $10bn Series J (after reportedly only looking for 3-4bn and got 19bn of interest).
Meanwhile, the Rivery Team have exited to Boomi, the iPAAS platform.
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Orchestra Product Updates - Google SSO, Google DataStream, PowerAutomate
Google SSO is released, so you can test the platform without having to even bother creating a password (we know you’re lazy)
We’ve added Dataflow in GCP as an integration. This allows you to trigger and monitor processes happening here like spark in dataflow for improved monitoring
PowerAutomate is also almost released. Expect to see this early New year
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
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Meme Drop
Running dbt in astronomer cosmos / airflow is really easy. Just look at how litle code it is (sarcasm
You can set-up dbt core with Orchestra in minutes.
Medium 🧠
🧠 Databases 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Database Essentials (link)
🧠 4 essential dbt-core life hacks you need in your life (link)
🧠 Part 1: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix (link)
🧠 Corporate Taxonomy Insights: Building a Comprehensive AI-Assisted Analysis Tool (link)
LinkedIn🕴
🕴 Roy Hasson’s big Iceberg S3 race (link)
🕴 Snowflake Cortex Analyst: Accurate AI-Powered Text2SQL for Sales Data (link)
🕴 Unmasking Data Clickbait with The Super Data Brothers! (link)
🕴 CI/CD for power BI (link)
News 📰
📰 M&A Deals News & Data – Insurance (link)
📰 M&A Deals News & Data – Media & Entertainment (link)
**Editors Pick**
📰 Databricks big news in the FT (link)
📰 This post on the extent of the frothiness Databricks is riding is very intriguing (link)
**Editors Pick**
📰 iPaas giant Boomi acquires Rivery (link)
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
**Editors Pick**
🎥 2024 Football Playoffs Hackathon by Dremio (link)
🎥 How to leverage dlt and Orchestra to reduce ELT costs by 90% (link)
Special 💫
💫 Someone made a game about data engineering it’s actually quite cool (link)
💫 Staff vs engineering manager (link)
💫 Follow data Jesus on Bluesky : https://bsky.app/profile/datajesus.bsky.social
Jobs 💼
💼 Analytics Engineer at Loop returns (link)
💼 Nestle are hiring for Data Engineers (link)
💼 Senior Product Analyst at ProductBoard
💼 Very exciting data engineering role at Landmarc (recommended, (link))
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