Alex Woodie
Managing Editor at BigDATA Wire
Senior Editor at IT Jungle
Managing Editor of BigDATAwire, Senior Editor at IT Jungle
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bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie
It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details.
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bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie
Snowflake and Databricks have emerged as the two data warehousing behemoths of the cloud era, slugging away at each other to attract customers and their big data workloads. Perhaps it’s not a coincidence, then, that the two vendors will holding their respective annual conferences in the same San Francisco location, separated by a week, in early June. Snowflake kicks things off first with its Snowflake Summit 25, which is scheduled to take place at the Moscone Center June 2-5.
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bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie
Data platform giants like Databricks and Snowflake do great when it comes to building data pipelines and running low-latency analytics to generate AI features, but they don’t solve the need for fresh data and complex compute requirements at AI inference time. That’s according to Chalk, the AI startup that today announced it has raised $50 million to build AI inference data pipelines.
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bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie
Dbt became one of the most used data tools thanks to its extensibility and simplicity. Now the folks behind dbt are taking the tool to the next level with the launch of a new Rust-powered Fusion engine, which dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy says will bring a 30x performance boost over dbt Core, among other enhancements. The company also launched a trio of new and updated tools to enhance data analyst productivity.
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bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie
It’s been 13 months since Salesforce and Informatica called off their first attempt at an acquisition. But the second time appears to be the charm, as Informatica today announced that Salesforce will buy it for $8 billion. Informatica was founded in 1993 ago to serve the burgeoning market for data integration tools, in particular the need for extract, transformation, and load (ETL) tools for early data warehouses.
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Harvard HPC storage chargeback, Dehghani on data mesh, and you don't own your own data -- there's nothing like a Mother's Day #BigData update! @BigDATAwireNews https://t.co/MoVUojcIQm
Check out my conversation with Data Mesh creator Zhamak Dehghani on the Big Data Debrief https://t.co/M2bpmjmBBI @zhamakd #DataMesh @NextdataOS @bigdatawirenews https://t.co/Vv8p5gHDxR
This week in #bigdata.... putting the #agentic cart before the #LLM horse; #Cloud bill is too damn high; and #Recce to the #dataquality rescue. @BigDATAwireNews https://t.co/YvlxO1LN9t
