ARTICLES
Listening, Learning, and Helping at Scale: How Machine Learning Transforms Airbnb’s Voice Support Experience | 7 min | ML | Yuanpei Cao, Heng Ji, Elaine Liu, Peng Wang, and Tiantian Zhang | Airbnb Blog
Airbnb rebuilt its voice support system using ML for transcription, intent detection, and smart help suggestions, making calls smoother for both users and agents.
How Kafka, Flink, Databricks, and Neon Power the Modern Data Stack for AI Agents | 8 min | AI | Sean Falconer | Personal Blog
A modular, streaming-first stack for event-driven AI agents, covering how these tools handle real-time perception, decision-making, and storage.
ClickStack: A High-Performance OSS Observability Stack on ClickHouse | 11 min | Observability | Mike Shi | Clickhouse Blog
ClickStack unifies logs, traces, metrics, and session replays. Built on ClickHouse, powered by HyperDX, and OpenTelemetry-native. Fast, flexible, and free.
TUTORIALS
Performance vs Practicality: A Comparison of vLLM and Ollama | 14 min | LLM | Robert McDermott | Personal Blog
Performance or practicality? vLLM offers GPU-tuned speed; Ollama is simpler and portable. A detailed benchmark across latency, throughput, and scaling.
NEWS
Delivering the Most Enterprise-Ready Postgres, Built for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud | 4 min | Data Engineering | Christian Kleinerman, Paul Laurence | Snowflake Blog
With its Crunchy Data acquisition, Snowflake launches managed Postgres built for secure, AI-ready transactional workloads on the Data Cloud.
PODCAST
Multi-Table Multi-Statement Transaction with Apache Iceberg| AI | 44 min | Abi Noda, Derek DeBellis | Engineering Enablement Podcast
Google DORA looks at how GenAI is changing software delivery, from productivity shifts to meaningful ways to track impact across teams.
DATA TUBE
Multi-Table Multi-Statement Transaction with Apache Iceberg | Data Engineering | 44 min | Jack Ye | Apache Iceberg
Jack Ye dives into the new Iceberg spec supporting cross-table transactions with SQL isolation. Also: Gravitino integration and future plans for Hudi and Paimon.
Running dbt Projects On Snowflake | 11 min | AI | Snowflake Developers
A hands-on demo of dbt on Snowflake: visualize DAGs, run tests, and deploy pipelines with ease using the new native dbt integration.
PINNACLE PICKS
Your last week top picks:
Databricks Orchestration: Databricks Workflows, Azure Data Factory, and Airflow | 12 min | Data Orchestration | Mariusz Kujawski | Personal Blog
Comparison of three orchestration tools and how they handle ingestion, ETL, and transformation across cloud platforms using code, low-code, or native Spark workflows.
AI SQL functions + Iceberg | 6 min | AI | Julien Hurault | Personal Blog
How AI SQL functions in Snowflake plus Apache Iceberg make large-scale, SQL-native text processing and lakehouse operations seamless and scalable.
What the hell is MCP? | 8 min | AI | Saurabh Shah | Personal Blog
The Model Communication Protocol could be the standard for how AI agents talk to tools and APIs. Still early, but full of potential.
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