Snowflake Summit, OpenFlow, Crunchy Acvquisition, dbt Fusion, Collibra acquires Raito #87 w/e 9 June 2025
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As predicted there were some massive announcements at Snowflake Summit
⛓️💥 Snowflake Partnerships are not broken yet. They surprised many by announcing dbt fusion would run in Snowflake. This shows Snowflake and dbt are still working together and positioning dbt Cloud as the enterprise solution people graduate to after dbt snowflake
↔️ Snowflake openflow seems very impressive, much bigger surface area than Lakeflow. Again - unlikely to fully displace tools like Fivetran but a huge surface area to build on. Kudos Luke Roquet
Why no displacement? Because ingestion is nuanced. Connectors, destinations, formats, latency, deployment options, user features — these are not all given Ethan Aaron has
🌍 Semantic modelling and views means you can have a conversation with your data. Finally the Neeva acquisition showing something although I wonder how much of that original tech powers this. HUGE for data analysts and data teams to have a semantic layer
🤖 better code control - personally I think code control for your warehouse ka a huge anti pattern and it should be in the orchestrator (the warehouse is just the execution engine) but there you go - it’s a good feature
And don’t forget crunchy - Postgres in Snowflake for transactional workloads. Huge fkr a new demographic of Snowflake users
Orchestra Supports Dataform
You can now run Dataform Jobs in Orchestra.
Pretty neat. This is a great option for anyone looking to build a scalable architecture on GCP without having to use dbt or the hassle of Airflow Cloud Composer.
Check out our GCP Architecture here.
Medium 🧠
🧠 SQL for Data Engineers: SQL Interview Series - Article 4: JOINs Explained (link)
🧠 Model Context Protocol, Claude, and Snowflake (link)
🧠 100 Days of Data Engineering Day 21–6 Python in Action (link)
🧠 Data Drift Is Not the Actual Problem: Your Monitoring Strategy Is (link)
🧠 Machine Learning Functions in Snowflake: Classification (link)
🧠 How I Automated My Machine Learning Workflow with Just 10 Lines of Python (link)
🧠 100 Days of Data Engineering on Databricks Day 21–5: Power Tools — Pandas and PySpark Basics (link)
LinkedIn🕴
🕴 Collibra Acquires Raito to Redefine Data Access Management for the AI Era (link)
🕴 Snowflake Intelligence: Stop Translating, start Conversing (link)
🕴 Future of Data Engineering? Let’s Get Into It – June 10 at Trelli (link)
🕴 Merging SCD-2 Intervals in BigQuery with SQL + LLM Pair Programming (link)
🕴 The AI & Data Cloud Consolidation Wars: Welcome to the Mean Data Streets (link)
🕴 Why Snowflake’s Multi-Layer Encryption Sets a New Standard for Data Security at Rest (link)
News 📰
Editor’s Pick
📰 Snowflake and Databricks cross the Rubicon into a new competitive domain (link)
📰 Snowflake to Acquire Crunchy Data, Bring Postgres to AI Data Cloud (link)
📰 Meta Reportedly Exploring $10 Billion-Plus Investment in Scale AI (link)
📰 Infisical Secures $16 Million in Series A Funding (link)
📰 Databricks continues M&A spree, will buy Neon for $1 billion in AI-agent push (link)
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
Editor’s Pick
🎥 Dremio Spring Release | Apache Polaris Interview Highlights (link)
🎥 Understanding DuckLake: A Table Format with a Modern Architecture (link)
🎥 Azure Maps + Power BI: Turn Rows Into Real-Time Geo Stories (link)
🎥 Automate Mail Merge with Power BI Paginated Reports in Microsoft Fabric (link)
Special 💫
💫 Data Engineering Weekly #222 (link)
💫 Data Engineering Weekly #223 (link)
Jobs 💼
💼 Staff Analytics Engineer at Zocdoc (link)
💼 Data Engineering Manager at Zinnia (link)
💼 Senior Analytics Engineer at Delta Defense (link)
💼 Data Engineer at Service Management Group (link)
💼 Data Systems Engineer at Working Families Party (link)
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