The Mid Week News - 15/11/2017 edit 
News time again, let’s catch up on what’s new…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Elasticsearch has hit the big 6.0, along with X-Pack and Elasticsearch Hadoop, with Elastic Cloud up to 1.1
- Apache Apex has seen a 3.8 release of it’s Malhar library
- Apache Phoenix has seen a 4.13 release
- InfluxDB is up to 1.4
- Zenko CloudServer is up to 7.1
Other technology news:
- ZDNet have an interview with the CEO of Elastic - link
- IBM Data Science Experience (DSX) is now certified on HDP - link
- An interview from ODBMS Industry Watch with Head of Data Technical Field for Pivotal and the founder and CEO Datometry. There’s some significant product plugs in there, but it’s worth a read - link
- From DataArtisans - an updated on CEP with Apache Flink - link
- More from Confluent for using Apache Kafka and KSQL in micro services architectures - link