Snowflake Acquire Select Star, Ducklake a step back, Sigma Lineage in Orchestra #111 w/e 28 Nov 2025

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This week the world was rocked by the news of a catalog acquisition. And with it more rumours of more acquisitions, so what will we see before the year is out?

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You can also get a first look at some awesome as yet unannounced Orchestra features below too! Bring on december!

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Orchestra Product Updates

You can run agentic workflows in Orchestra.

AI in an Orchestra Pipeline

• Orchestra supports Running Jobs in Dataproc

• Orchestra supports sending alerts to PagerDuty

• Orchestra supports parameterisation of Cloud Run

• Orchestra supports parameterised triggering of Synapse Notebooks

• Additional AI Agents in the Agents Tab (docs)

• Parameters for Google Cloud Run Jobs (docs)

• Google Cloud Run Functions (docs)

• Improved Metadata Tracking - if you head to the Assets panel and set-up an Asset Run, Orchestra now fetches lineage and columnar metadata such as descriptions, types etc. Currently only supported for Snowflake.

• Cancelling Pipelines via API (here)

• Improved error handling when pipelines start -> users will get more feedback when scheduled runs fail due to for example, .yml misconfigurations

• Databricks Assets - you can fetch databricks Assets using an Asset Run too

• Synapse Spark Notebooks are now supported (here)

• Organisation Auto-Join: for teams leveraging Okta with multiple organisations, Orchestra now supports Auto-join; you can add this as a setting here which allows users with the same email domain to join your organisational automatically

• Logs are downloadable in the portal (see here)

• Sigma and Tableau Lineage support (see below)

Sigma Lineage in Orchestra

Medium 🧠

🧠 Day 1: Reskill to Data & AI on Databricks (link)

🧠 Data Science in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? (link)

🧠 Unlocking Snowflake Efficiency at Zendesk (link)

🧠 Why We’ve Been Optimizing the Wrong Thing in LLMs for Years (link)

🧠 How I Use AI to Convince Companies to Adopt Sustainability (link)

🧠 Integrating AI Foundry with Snowflake Cortex Agents (link)

🧠 Snowflake’s SQL SEARCH() Function: A Powerful Tool for Text Data (link)

🧠 ROLE OF BIG DATA IN TRANSFORMING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (link)

🧠 Understanding the Critical Difference Between Data Preprocessing and Machine Learning for Accurate Model Training (link)

LinkedIn🕴

🕴 Why Founders Need to Think Like Salespeople (link)

🕴 What My Friend Showed Me About the Future of Work (link)

🕴 The Data Architecture Behind the AI Agent Explosion (link)

🕴 Blind Is Toxic… but This Had Me Crying (link)

🕴 Starburst Acquisition Rumors: What It Means for FishTran (link)

Editor’s Pick

🕴 Huge Move: Snowflake Acquires Select Star (link)

🕴 Why Unity Catalog Doesn’t Deliver True Iceberg Catalog Interoperability (link)

Editor’s Pick

🕴 Is Ducklake a step backwards (link)

News 📰

📰 Snowflake Partner Ecosystem Mergers, Acquisitions and Investment — Read here

📰 Databricks becomes private markets’ AI lynchpin — Read here

📰 Bronto Raises $14 Million in Seed Round — Read here

📰 Dexlabs shuts down (link)

YouTube and Podcast 🎥

Editor’s Pick

🎥 Stop Wasting Time Choosing Colors in Power BI — Do THIS Instead (link)

🎥 Uploading CSV, JSON, Parquet files to Dremio Cloud as Apache Iceberg Tables (link)

Special 💫

💫 Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution (link)

Jobs 💼

💼 Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at Intercom (link)

💼 Lead Product Scientist (Hands-on Manager) at Paddle (link)

💼 Snr Dtata Engineer at Fair Supply (link)

💼 Freelancer: Analytics Engineer (12-months) at Taxfix (link)

💼 Data engineer at Enhanza (link)

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