The Mid Week News - 21/02/2018 edit 
Right, following our week off (the snow was lovely thank you), we’re back with a bumper edition of the news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Knox has hit 1.0
- Apache Beam has hit 2.3
- Apache Storm has hit 1.2
- Apache Phoenix has released a 5.0 alpha
- Elasticsearch has hit 6.2, along with X-Pack and Elasticsearch Hadoop
Other technology news:
- Apache Oozie has security vulnerablity - CVE-2017-15712 - a user can expose private files on the Oozie server process by constructing a workflow that references sensitive files
- Trifacta have just announced a new funding round, including funding from Google that resell their software as Google Cloud Dataprep - link
- A couple of updates on the benefits of Hadoop 3 - Hortonworks link; erasure coding thoughts from Datanami
- From Data Artisans, a view on end to end exactly once processing in Apache Flink - link
- A bit batch of updates from Hortonworks on new features in HDF following on from last weeks GA announcement
- Couple of big updates from InfluxData (creators of InfluxDB) - new funding round and IFQL as their new standard query language
- An article from Datanami on Scylla, the C++ re-write of Cassandra - link
- An update from Cloudera on new features in Hue in CDH 5.14 - link
- From InfoQ - implementing a resilient Kafka cluster at Goldman Sachs - link
- A technical overview of Cloudera Altus Analytical DB from Cloudera - link
- This is always interesting - LinkedIn’s experiences of Hadoop failures at extreme scale and how they test for them at smaller scale - link
- Should you migrate all your batch ETL jobs to streaming jobs - probably not, but here is Netflix’s experiences courtesy of InfoQ - link