The Mid Week News 29/08/2018 edit 
Right - time for the news again…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Hortonworks DataPlane Service is up to 1.2
- Elasticsearch has hit 6.4, along with Elasticsearch Hadoop
Other technology news:
- Apache HAWQ has graduated from the Apache Incubator - link
- Hortonworks have formally announced their new Kafka monitoring and management solution called Hortonworks Streams Messaging Manager, and we’ll try and do a tech summary soon - link
- From Datanami - their view on the latest Gartner Hype Cycle - link
- Databricks now have a built in connector to Snowflake - link