The Mid Week News - 14/03/2018 edit 
It’s Wednesday, and it’s time for the weekly news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Falcon, which I thought was dead, has just hit 0.11
- Apache HBase has seen it’s second 2.0 beta release
- Apache Parquet has seen a 1.4 release of it’s C++ library
- InfluxDB has hit 1.5
Other technology news:
- Datanami have the lowdown on StreamSets’ new Data Protection product out that supports automatic identification of personally identifiable information and a range of options for obfuscating or encrypting it - link
- Databricks have blogged about two key new features in Spark 2.3 - Kubernetes support and stream to stream joins
- From ODBMS Industry Watch, and interesting interview with John Ryan, Data Warehouse Solution Architect (Director) at UBS, on database technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL) with some thoughts on the Lambda architecture thrown in at the end - link
- Again from Datanami, some interesting thoughts on Elastic and where they’re going - link