Snowflake start marketing dbt, Databahn and Eventual in new funding rounds #90 w/e 27 June 2025
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This week saw the beginning of the new Snowflake vs. dbt push. It’s super exciting to see the awesome traction dbt is having in the community where even SNOWFLAKE are now including it in their out the box product offering.
Now — there are without doubt many features left to be desired; for example, full slim CI/CD flows, the presence of a complete orchestrator, and integrations with metadata stores for data quality and cataloging purposes.
But hey - if the shoe fits??
Why not see if the dbt shoe fits for you in Orchestra (see below)
Orchestra Announces Hybrid Deployment and Managed dbt CI/CD
Underlying Orchestra’s commitment to security and building the most powerful enterprise orchestrator, you can now run python and dbt core within your own environment in a fully-managed way.
This means you can enjoy the ease-of-use of Orchestra while also minimising the number open connections to the public internet you have. Everything runs through your own Containers, and you get one-click deploy via Orchestra’s provided terraform module.
We’ve also announced CI/CD for dbt-core, which means you get complete confidence your dbt flows work in production as expected.
Medium 🧠
🧠 10 Hard Topics in Data Engineering That Will Skyrocket Your Career (link)
🧠 Pipelining AI/ML Training Workloads with CUDA Streams (link)
🧠 Predictable Native Apps Rollouts with Listing Auto Refresh (link)
🧠 The Mythical Pivot Point from Buy to Build for Data Platforms (link)
🧠 A Caching Strategy for Identifying Bottlenecks on the Data Input Pipeline (link)
🧠 Databricks Products Engineering Day 16, Becoming a Data Product Manager (link)
🧠 Build a Natural Language Data Assistant in VS Code with Copilot, MCP, and Snowflake Cortex AI (link)
LinkedIn🕴
🕴 Small Teams, Big Impact: The Future of Data Workforces (link)
🕴 A Fun Conversation on Polars and Book Writing with Thijs and Jeroen (link)
🕴 The Ontology Pipeline: A Framework Rooted in Semantics and Data Hygiene (link)
🕴 Cortex Analyst in Action: Why Clients Call It Game-Changing (link)
🕴 Snowflake Horizon: Empowering Customers with Data Lineage & Quality (link)
🕴 Data Quality, Scale & Trust: Lessons from the Frontlines at Data Engineer Things London (link)
News 📰
Editor’s Pick
📰 The Three Data Platform Circus by Brandon Harris (Link)
📰 Snowflake's Growth Prospects Have Improved Under New CEO Ramaswamy, Says Morgan Stanley (link)
📰 Eventual Closes $20M in Funding to Power Multimodal AI with Open-Source Data Engine Daft (link)
📰 DataBahn.ai Raises $17M Series A to Redefine Enterprise Data Pipelines for Security, Observability and AI (link)
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
Editor’s Pick
🎥 CI/CD in Orchestra for dbt-core (VERY COOL) (link)
🎥 How DuckLake Simplifies Lakehouse Architecture ft. Jordan Tigani & Hannes Mühleisen (link)
🎥 2025 State of Analytics Engineering (link)
🎥 How Rivian Drives Innovation with Data Intelligence (link)
Special 💫
💫 Data Engineering Weekly #225 (link)
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