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• Data This Week #4

  22 Feb, 2026 · 5 min read

  How OpenAI scales PostgreSQL for ChatGPT, Dropbox's enterprise RAG, 3x faster Spark on Iceberg, dbt with DuckDB, local AWS Lakehouse setups, and new tool Alibaba ZVec.

• Data This Week #3

  15 Feb, 2026 · 3 min read

  BigQuery cost optimization, Apache Iceberg updates, MinIO alternatives, AWS SageMaker governance, and new tools like Nao — curated for data engineers.

• Data This Week #2

  8 Feb, 2026 · 4 min read

  RisingWave HTTP streaming to Iceberg, CedarDB string compression, Alibaba open-sources AliSQL (MySQL + DuckDB), Databricks Lakebase GA, and AI-powered data quality monitoring.

• Data This Week #1

  1 Feb, 2026 · 6 min read

  PostgreSQL dominance in 2025, Arrow-based database connectivity, Uber's petabyte-scale replication, Netflix AI graph search, and new tools OpenEverest and Pandas 3.0.