ARTICLES
MaxCompute SQL Execution Engine's Comprehensive Refactoring of Complex Data Type Processing Ensures Smooth Migration from BigQuery | 6 min | Data and AI | Shuiqiang Chen | Alibaba Cloud Blog
Explore how Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute optimizes complex data types like ARRAY, MAP, and STRUCT to rival BigQuery—boosting performance and reducing costs.
MotherDuck: Serverless Analytics Without the Overhead | 5 min | Data Engineering | Diederik Greveling | Xebia Blog
Enter MotherDuck – a serverless analytics platform that fundamentally rethinks data warehousing. Built on DuckDB's blazingly fast columnar engine, MotherDuck delivers sub-second queries without the overhead of large, distributed systems.
GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development | 4 mint |Developers Tool | Frederic Lardinois | TheNewStack
GitHub is working on migrating all of its infrastructure to Azure, even though this means it'll have to delay some feature development.
NEWS
Fivetran and dbt Labs Unite to Set the Standard for Open Data Infrastructure | 3 min | Fivetran Press Release
Parlant ensures safe and compliant AI agents using structured reasoning and strict mode response filters.
Announcing Amazon Quick Suite | 4 min | Esra Kayabali, Donnie Prakoso | AWS New Blog
Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic teammate that quickly answers your questions at work and turns those insights into actions for you.
TOOL
A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent
Advanced coding model yet—powering complex agents, stronger reasoning, and math with new tools, SDKs, and coding upgrades.
CONFS, EVENTS, WEBINARS AND MEETUPS
Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit | April 2026 | CFP
Become a speaker at the 12 edition of the conference. Hurry up. the CFP is open only till October 29th
Data Lakehouse (DL) - Is it the Holy Grail We Have Been Looking For? | 50 min | Data Engineering | Marek Wiewiórka | Xebia
Get closer to the Data Lakehouse concept, what problems it addresses, and how to design its architecture to make it the holy grail.
PINNACLE PICKS
Your last week top picks:
Apache Iceberg Explained in 10 Minutes – Everything You Need to Know! | 11 min | Data Engineering | Yusuf Ganiyu | Personal Channel
A quick, clear rundown of how Iceberg structures, stores, and optimizes modern data lakes.
Building a Unified Lakehouse for Recommendation Systems with Apache Paimon at TikTok | 6 min | Batch Processing | Shuiqiang Chen | Alibaba Cloud Blog
TikTok’s Paimon based lakehouse unifies batch and stream data for scalable real time recommendations.
Airbyte v2 | 6 min | Data Integration | Airbyte Blog
Airbyte v2 launches with faster syncs, scalable connectors, and cloud-native orchestration for ELT pipelines.
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A quick, clear rundown of how Iceberg structures, stores, and optimizes modern data lakes.
Building a Unified Lakehouse for Recommendation Systems with Apache Paimon at TikTok | 6 min | Batch Processing | Shuiqiang Chen | Alibaba Cloud Blog
TikTok’s Paimon based lakehouse unifies batch and stream data for scalable real time recommendations.
Airbyte v2 | 6 min | Data Integration | Airbyte Blog
Airbyte v2 launches with faster syncs, scalable connectors, and cloud-native orchestration for ELT pipelines.
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