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Acryl Data Raises $21M in Bid to Unify Data Stack

Acryl Data, the company driving the open source data catalog called the DataHub Project, got a boost in its quest to unify the fragmented data stack today when it announced the completion of a $21 million Series A round. Read more…

Meet Maxime Beauchemin, a 2023 Person to Watch

When it comes to prolific contributors to open source projects in the big data space, Maxime Beauchemin is definitely somebody you should know. As a data engineer at Airbnb, Beauchemin created multiple tools that he subs Read more…

A/B Test Like You’re Airbnb

A/B testing is a critical and oft-overlooked element of data science at high-flying tech firms like Google, Netflix, and Uber, but it can be difficult to set up a testing infrastructure. Now you can implement A/B testing Read more…

An Open Source Alternative to AWS SageMaker

There’s no shortage of resources and tools for developing machine learning algorithms. But when it comes to putting those algorithms into production for inference, outside of AWS’s popular SageMaker, there’s not a Read more…

Will Databricks Build the First Enterprise AI Platform?

Ali Ghodsi might have one of the best jobs in technology right now. As the CEO of Databricks, Ghodsi just completed an oversubscribed $400 million round of funding that gave the company a $6.2 billion valuation. Better s Read more…

What’s Behind Lyft’s Choices in Big Data Tech

Lyft was a late entrant to the ride-sharing business model, at least compared to its competitor Uber, which pioneered the concept and remains the largest provider. That delay in starting out actually gave Lyft a bit of a Read more…

Neo4j Expands Startup Access to Graph Database

Graph database specialist Neo4j is expanding free access to its enterprise platform for startup companies, a move the company said would help later-stage entrepreneurs expand their data visualization efforts as that mark Read more…

Apache Airflow to Power Google’s New Workflow Service

Apache Airflow, the workload management system developed by Airbnb, will power the new workflow service that Google rolled out today. Called Cloud Composer, the new Airflow-based service allows data analysts and applicat Read more…

Dr. Elephant Leads the Performance Parade

I started working on big data infrastructure in 2009 when I joined Cloudera, which at the time was a small startup with about 10 engineers. It was a fun place to work. My colleagues and I got paid to work on open source Read more…

8 New Big Data Projects To Watch

The big data community has a secret weapon when it comes to innovation: open source. The granddaddy of big data, Apache Hadoop, was born in open source, and its growth will come from continued innovation in done by the c Read more…

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