The Mid Week News 04/10/2018 edit 
We’re a little bit later than usual this week, but there’s some big Cloudera/Hortonworks news to make up for it…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- None this week!
Other technology news:
- First up, Cloudera and Hortonworks have announced their plans to merge - I’ll try and capture my thoughts on this tomorrow - Cloudera; Hortonworks; ZDNet view; Datanami view; Gartner view; The Register view
- ZDNet have a post on processing time series data - link
- Hortonworks have a reminder that Hive in HDP now integrates with Druid for cube based queries, and it’s faster in HDP 3.0 - link
- A view from Datanami on Apache Pulsar - link
- An update on Spark on Kubernetes from DataBricks - link
- From The Morning Papers - “the design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systems” - link