The Mid Week News - 21/03/2018 edit 
It’s time for the news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Ranger has hit the big 1.0
- Apache Calcite has hit 0.16
- Apache Drill has hit 1.13
- Apache Ignite has hit 2.4
- Databricks have published some more blog posts on 2.3 features for Apache Spark
- Influx have published some more blog posts on 1.5 features for InfluxDB
Other technology news:
- Datanami have a summary of the new features in Spark 2.3 - link
- Confluent have a post of how to continuously extract data from your database using Kafka Connect - link
- Hortonworks have announced Hortonworks Operational Services - their new on site or in the cloud managed service for HDP or HDF - blog; homepage
- ZDNet have their view on Hortonworks Operational Services, KSQL and Waterline - link