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Octopai Acquisition Enhances Metadata Management to Trust Data Across Entire Data Estate

Cloudera

Cloudera, together with Octopai, will make it easier for organizations to better understand, access, and leverage all their data in their entire data estate – including data outside of Cloudera – to power the most robust data, analytics and AI applications.

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Data logs: The latest evolution in Meta’s access tools

Engineering at Meta

Here we explore initial system designs we considered, an overview of the current architecture, and some important principles Meta takes into account in making data accessible and easy to understand. Users have a variety of tools they can use to manage and access their information on Meta platforms. feature on Facebook.

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How Apache Iceberg Is Changing the Face of Data Lakes

Snowflake

Iceberg tables become interoperable while maintaining ACID compliance by adding a layer of metadata to the data files in a users object storage. An external catalog tracks the latest table metadata and helps ensure consistency across multiple readers and writers. Put simply: Iceberg is metadata.

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Modern Data Architecture: Data Mesh and Data Fabric 101

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Data fabric is a unified approach to data management, creating a consistent way to manage, access, and share data across distributed environments. As data management grows increasingly complex, you need modern solutions that allow you to integrate and access your data seamlessly.

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Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing

The Pragmatic Engineer

The startup was able to start operations thanks to getting access to an EU grant called NGI Search grant. Results are stored in git and their database, together with benchmarking metadata. Benchmarking results for each instance type are stored in sc-inspector-data repo, together with the benchmarking task hash and other metadata.  There

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Why Column-Aware Metadata Is Key to Automating Data Transformations

Snowflake

IoT devices in every industry; geolocation information on our phones, watches, cars, and every other mobile device; every website or app we access—all are collecting data. A single organization may have access to millions of attributes. For the future, our automation tools must collect and manage metadata at the column level.

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Modern Data Governance: Trends for 2025

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Key Takeaways: Prioritize metadata maturity as the foundation for scalable, impactful data governance. The past year brought significant changes, from the growing importance of metadata maturity to the increasing convergence of data governance and data quality practices. How can you further improve your strategy moving forward?