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DATA Pill #178 - Inside the New Data Stack from Airbnb TikTok Google and Siemens

ARTICLES

4 Advanced Data Modeling Techniques Every Data Engineer Must Learn | 6 min | Data Engineering | Khushbu Shah | ProjectPro Blog
Four key modeling techniques that help data engineers scale pipelines, cut query costs, and build production ready warehouses.
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.
BigQuery Advanced Runtime: Automatic Query Acceleration | 3 min | Data Analytics | Google Cloud Blog
BigQuery introduces enhanced vectorization and short query optimization for faster analytics without code changes.
Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb | 6 min | Data Engineering | Shravan Gaonkar | Airbnb Engineering Blog
Airbnb’s Mussel v2 becomes a cloud native NewSQL system with sub 25 ms reads and seamless scaling.
Dutch hospitals apply federated learning and clinician led design to bring AI safely into healthcare.
How Siemens, SAP, and Confluent Shape the Future of AI-Ready Integration | 4 min | Data Streaming | Kai Waehner | Pesonal Blog
Siemens and SAP show how Kafka and Flink enable real time data flow and AI ready integration.

TUTORIAL

How Parlant Guarantees AI Agent Compliance | 6 min | AI Infrastructure | Yam Marcovitz | Parlant Blog
Parlant ensures safe and compliant AI agents using structured reasoning and strict mode response filters.

TOOL

Single-node geospatial database built for blazing-fast spatial analytics on local or cloud setups.
A 3.4B parameter LLM that runs entirely in your browser with privacy by default and offline capability.

DATA TUBE

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.

PINNACLE PICKS

Your last week top picks:
How Python 3.14 t-Strings Differ from f-Strings | 3 min | Data Engineering | Stack Overflow
Python’s new t-strings preserve metadata for safer interpolation in SQL, HTML, and regex contexts.
Expanding the Hive Ecosystem with Iceberg REST | 4 min | Data Infrastructure | Dmitriy Fingerman | Medium
Hive gains modern table management with Iceberg REST, simplifying hybrid architectures via APIs.
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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2025-10-08 13:35