AI Data Centers are Pushing U.S. Power Grids to the Brink

With the rapid expansion of AI adoption, data center construction is accelerating around the world. Behind this boom, however, lies a growing concern: a serious shortage of electric power, as supply struggles to keep pace with soaring demand. Nowhere is this issue more visible than in the United States.

Hands-on Session: Unlock AI-Powered Data Engineering on Snowflake

Your data team doesn’t need more tools. It needs fewer bottlenecks. What if you could go from raw data to production-ready pipelines and AI workflows in a single day? With Snowflake’s Cortex Code, teams can now build, optimize, and deploy data workflows using natural language, dramatically accelerating development inside the warehouse.

Matt Forrest's Journey into Geospatial: Building Data Systems the Right Way

Introducing Episode 1 of Data Builder Club: a series to celebrate the data leaders behind the most impactful data systems. In this episode we sit down with Matt Forrest, Director of Customer Engineering at Wherobots, geospatial advocate, and LinkedIn's go-to voice for modern data and spatial engineering. Matt opens up about his unconventional path into data, his philosophy around building reliable geospatial systems, and why a good foundation is the only thing that makes everything else possible.

Exporting Liveboard Reports using API with ThoughtSpot

Tired of manual reporting workflows holding back your team? Learn how to scale your data distribution by mastering Liveboard exports through both the UI and ThoughtSpot’s REST API v2. In this walkthrough, we dive into the technical details of capturing specific tabs and formatting reports in high-quality PDF and XLSX. We’ll show you how to use identifiers and filters to customize insights—like a brand manager automating reports specifically for Coca-Cola—so your stakeholders get exactly what they need, when they need it.

Stop the Recycled Data Talk: Real Insights in 60 Seconds

Part of our "Did You Know?" series: We're setting the record straight. We’re cutting through the noise to share exactly what differentiates Cloudera from the rest—because in a world full of recycled data talk, we’re here to deliver real insights. In this episode, Jeff Healey breaks down Cloudera's unparalleled data storage capabilities. Learn how the Cloudera object store scales to billions of objects, solving the "small files problem" while increasing performance with full S3 compatibility. Achieve a lower TCO with a modern object store built for analytics and AI anywhere.

Astera ReportMiner: Automate Document Extraction Across Any Layout or Format

Most enterprises spend 80% of analysts' time just extracting data from documents. Formats change. Vendors switch layouts. Templates break. Astera ReportMiner handles document variability automatically. It converts documents into structured, system-ready data regardless of layout, with no templates and no code. Teams get their time back. Data flows into downstream systems reliably. This video shows how ReportMiner handles real-world document variability and keeps your data pipeline moving automatically.

Don't trust AI agents on Kafka. Unless you have OAuth 2.1. (Live)

Every engineering team is onboarding AI agents. Most are doing it without a governance model - static API keys, no audit trail, no way to revoke access if something goes wrong. Join us on April 15th as we go live on the topic everyone is talking about but few are solving: how to govern AI agent access to streaming data.

Introducing Confluent Platform 8.2: Queues for Apache Kafka, Flink SQL, and More

Today, we're excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 8.2, which builds on Apache Kafka 4.2! This release extends and simplifies what you can do with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink, whether that’s handling task queues natively with Apache Kafka 4.2, processing streams easily with Flink SQL, or managing cluster migration, upgrades, or disaster recovery without the usual operational pain. The release highlights are below, and additional details about the features are in the release notes.