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Is Building Your Own Analytics Worth It?

Building your own analytics gives you full control, but it’s costly, slow, and drains focus from your core product. Buying an embedded analytics solution like Yellowfin lets you move faster, monetize sooner, avoid technical debt, deliver a polished user experience, and rely on proven security and compliance (all while keeping your team focused on what makes your product unique).

How Iceberg Powers Data and AI Applications at Apple, Netflix, LinkedIn, and Other Leading Companies

Apache Iceberg is transforming how organizations build and manage their data infrastructure, enabling lakehouse architectures that combine the best of data lakes and data warehouses. In this blog, we look at five real-world implementations demonstrate Iceberg's versatility and the advantages it brings to modern data management challenges. Learn more about Data Lakehouses.

Ep 36 | Securing the Evolving Frontier of Digital Trust with Jim Brennan

When trust collapses, everything else goes with it. Jim Brennan, Chief Product and Technical Officer at GetReal Security, joins The AI Forecast to break down one of the biggest challenges in today’s world: securing digital trust. He and host Paul Muller explore why trust is the backbone of modern business and how advancements like deepfakes, impersonation attacks, and AI-powered deception are shaking that foundation.

Why Manufacturing Brands Need Product Information Management in 2025

Your brand isn’t just a logo anymore. It’s a promise that lives across dozens of digital touchpoints your customers encounter daily. Whether you’re manufacturing industrial equipment or consumer goods, every product detail, specification, and image becomes part of your brand story. And here’s the thing: if you’re not controlling that story, someone else is writing it for you.

From Building at Pinterest and Airbnb to Revolutionizing AI at Kumo.AI

Join us for expert insights on how data is rewriting the rules and driving the future of innovation with Dr. Vanja Josifovski, CEO and Founder of Kumo.AI. In this episode, Dr. Vanja shares his approach to enterprise AI and reveals why a "data-forward organization" is the key to success. He also explains why integration speed is now the new competitive edge, and makes a compelling case for rebuilding outdated systems to achieve a 10x advantage.

Predictable Scale: A Proven Methodology for Sustainable Business Growth (Pete Caputa, Databox)

How do you scale faster without burning out your team or chasing shiny tactics that don’t move the needle? Databox CEO Pete Caputa unveils Predictable Scale — a new methodology for building strategy, focus, and repeatable systems so you can grow with confidence. In this interview, Pete shares his SPEARS framework (Strategize, Plan, Execute, Adjust, Repeat, Scale), how to use data to set smarter goals, and why radical transparency accelerates alignment and results.

How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka With Schema Registry and Data Contracts

A data contract is a formal agreement between an upstream component and a downstream component on the structure and semantics of data that’s in motion. In a previous post, I showed how Confluent Schema Registry supports data contracts. By combining data contracts and encryption on streaming workloads, you can shift left the responsibility of data consistency, quality, and security to the producer, allowing the consumer to depend on a trustworthy stream of data.

Visualizing BigQuery geospatial data in Colab

Geospatial data is a powerful tool for gaining insights into everything from customer behavior to environmental patterns. BigQuery allows you to store and analyze this location data using standard SQL, and bringing that data into a Colab notebook gives you the flexibility to combine BigQuery's power with popular Python visualization libraries. This approach is perfect for ad-hoc or iterative analysis. In this video, we'll give you an overview of these capabilities and walk through a demo of how you can analyze and visualize your geospatial data.