The Mid Week News 19/09/2018 edit 
There’s some new content coming this week, but in the mean time lets check in with the news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Greenplum has hit 5.11
- Cloudera Altus Director (née Cloudera Director) has hit the big 6.0
Other technology news:
- Datanami have their 2018 Readers and Editors awards out - link
- Hortonworks have formally announced their new Data Analytics Studio model for DataPlane - [https://hortonworks.com/blog/announcing-general-availability-data-analytics-studio/]
- Looks like Streamsets (makes of StreamSets Data Collector have raised some more money - link
- Qubole have published their 2018 Big Data Trends and Challenges Survery Report, with Flink and Presto apparently seeing a big increase in uptake - link; Datanami view
- Databricks have a post on Flint, a time-series library for Spark - link
- Confluent have another blog post on how Kafka and streaming pipelines are going to revolutionise ETL - link
- It looks like Hortonworks HDCloud for AWS has been quietly dropped with their new Cloudbreak powered multi-cloud strategy with the documentation now gone