Finish Slime #30

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Great Recent Stuff

Simon Späti is writing a book about data engineering patterns

Simon, ex-Airbyte, with a decade of experience in the data space, just started writing a book about data engineering patterns and is looking for feedback and will publish the book for free. 

Tabular Secures $26M for Independent Data Platform based on Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg has been around for quite some time, becoming a major player in the table format space. Tabular, a company pushing the boundaries of this project, recently raised another round of funding to continue its independent data platform. Congrats!

PyTimeTK Basics

Time series analysis is painful, no matter how you do it. But PyTimeTK aims to make it simpler; give it a try.

The Benefits & Pitfalls of Data Mesh: Considerations Before Implementation

Scott and Zhamak, two prominent figures in the data mesh space, discuss the messy details of what happens before implementing a data mesh.

Popsink is now Generally Available

Popsink is a combination of orchestrator and ETL/ELT tool specialized in operationalizing data, whatever that means. GA means you can now go and check it out for yourself.

Why data integration will never be fully solved, and what Fivetran, Airbyte, Singer, dlt and CloudQuery do about it

No one is yet close to solving the data integration problem. Anna takes us through the current approaches out there that work on this hard problem. (As I do work for Arch - the company behind Meltano, I do have a vested interest here)

11 lessons learned managing a Data Platform team within a data mesh

BlaBlaCar transitioned into a data mesh some time ago; in this article, Souhaib shares his experience in managing the data platform inside this mesh.