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How FiveStars re-engineered its data engineering stack

CIO

It shows in his reluctance to run his own servers but it’s perhaps most obvious in his attitude to data engineering, where he’s nearing the end of a five-year journey to automate or outsource much of the mundane maintenance work and focus internal resources on data analysis. It’s not a good use of our time either.”

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Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta stone’ for database languages

TechCrunch

Its open-source-based Prisma ORM, launched last year, now has more than 150,000 developers using it for Node.js Schmidt said the plan is to increase investment in that open-source tool to bring on more users, with a view to building its first revenue-generating products.

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LinkedIn open sources lakehouse tool OpenHouse

InfoWorld

LinkedIn has decided to open source its data management tool, OpenHouse, which it says can help data engineers and related data infrastructure teams in an enterprise to reduce their product engineering effort and decrease the time required to deploy products or applications.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary DataOps

DevOps.com

Core DataOps concepts are making their way into data engineering teams and, from there, into the broader enterprise. Data engineers are retooling how they create data products, and much of this work revolves around creating data pipelines. They […].

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Airbyte raises $5.2M for its open-source data integration platform

TechCrunch

Airbyte , an open-source data integration platform, today announced that it has raised a $5.2 “At that point, we decided to go into deeper data integration and that’s how we started the Airbyte project and product as we know it today,” Tricot explained. million seed funding round led by Accel.

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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

TechCrunch

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. This helps to monitor label quality and — ideally — to fix problems before they impact training data.

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A Recap of the Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix

Netflix Tech

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. Netflix is not the only place where data engineers are solving challenging problems with creative solutions.