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Data This Week #35
10 min readWhy sorted Parquet files don't give DataFusion an ordered scan, point-in-time leak-free graphs on Iceberg, rank-space Hilbert clustering in DuckDB, Netflix's ontology-driven observability, Uber's dependency analysis, Apache Polaris disaster recovery, Redshift data sharing and Iceberg writes, JEV classification, duckxlsx, and debugging data mismatches.
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Data This Week #34
5 min readJev brings typed LLM extraction into SQL, Polars 2.0 makes streaming the default, Python 3.15 adds lazy imports and Tachyon, Logfire's dynamic JSON shredding, MongoDB's Atlas Infinite, pg_duckdb on Azure, DuckDB on AWS Glue, EMR 8.1 multi-catalog queries, Xonai FuseCore, and community views on Snowflake Semantic Views.
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Data This Week #33
6 min readMicrosoft backs Apache Ossie with a Power BI converter and DAX integration, Cloudflare launches Basin with zero egress fees, Aurora PostgreSQL queries Iceberg natively via DuckDB, Snowflake open-sources pg_lake, streaming deletes vs. Iceberg compaction, Supabase acquires Turso, and the community debates dbt 2 maturity.
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Data This Week #32
7 min readServing APIs off S3 Tables, Spark Declarative Pipelines, serverless Postgres CDC on Fargate, Iceberg 1.12 preview, Postgres search internals, data contracts with Bitol, Notion CRDTs, DuckDB-Wasm on OPFS, and community debate on AI and data modeling.