Sorry it's late! Fivetran Acquire Census, Datadog Announce Eppo #82 w/e 2 May 2025
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Sorry it’s delayed!! There are even more hot news stories fro last week. Lots of acquisition going on in the data space.
Orchestra Product Update
The Metadata API is live! You can now stream your Orchestra metadata back into your data warehouse. This means you can conduct sophisticated long-term analysis on your metadata in a structured way, without really having to do anything.
You can read the docs here
Gorgeous!
Medium ðŸ§
🧠Is Your Snowflake Secure? Here’s a Practical Review You Can Run Today (link)
🧠How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs (link)
🧠How AI Is Rewriting the Day-to-Day of Data Scientists (link)
🧠The Future of Data is a rude awakening for the Modern Data Stack (link)
🧠A Practical Guide To Data Anonymization With PySpark (link)
🧠DataChat: Bridging Natural Language and Analytics with GEL and LLM Integration (link)
LinkedIn🕴
🕴 New Podcast with Jessica Talisman – Tune In Now (link)
🕴 Shoutout to the 2025 Data GOATs (link)
🕴 Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens Are Here (link)
🕴 70% Cost Savings: From Databricks to Snowflake (link)
🕴 How Dawn Capital Uses Orchestra to Power AI with Trusted Data ⚡ (link)
🕴 A Simpler Data Lakehouse: S3 + Bauplan + Orchestra 💡 (link)
News 📰
Editor’s Pick
📰 Venture Firm Thrive Bets on Buying Firms That Can Benefit From A.I.:
Thrive Capital has bet big on artificial intelligence, including emerging giants of the field like OpenAI and Databricks… Read More
📰 Data Infrastructure Company Terminal 3 Raises US$8M Seed Round to Scale Privacy Technology In New AI Era: HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terminal 3, a Hong Kong-based Web3 startup, has successfully raised a seed funding round of US$8m. The investment will drive the development of a novel data privacy and security protocol due for launch later in the year and accelerate the adoption of the company’s decentralized identity and credentials platform for enterprises. Today, Terminal 3 already serves nearly 8 million users across multiple blockchains and industries… Read More
📰 FIVETRAN ACQUIRES CENSUS (link)
📰 Datadog Acquire Eppo for the same price as metaplane (link)
YouTube and Podcast 🎥
Editor’s Pick
🎥 PowerPoint + Power BI Annotations: Next-Level Storytelling (link)
🎥 Stop Guessing Colors: Legends That Guide in Power BI (link)
Special 💫
💫 Data Engineering Weekly #218 (link)
Jobs 💼
💼 Analytics & BI Engineer at Rygen Technologies (link)
💼 Senior Data Engineer at TestGorilla (link)
💼 Manager of Data Engineering at Velir (link)
💼 Senior Data Engineer + 2x Data Analyst at Incident.io (link)
💼 Data Engineer (Contract) at Stripe (link)
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