The Mid Week News 31/10/2018 edit 
ok - let’s do this week’s news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Nifi has hit 1.8
- Apache Beam has hit 2.8
- Apache Kudu is up to 1.8
Other technology news:
- Following on from our thinking on Kubernetes, Confluent have a post on running Kafka on Kubernetes - link
- From InfoQ, an interview on HDSight - link
- Dremio 3.0 is out and ZDNet have a write up - link
- From Datanami, it looks like there’s a bot out targeting unsecured Hadoop clusters - link
- Still more on the Cloudera Hortonworks merger, this time Datanami looking at the product roadmap - link
- Pinot, the Open source realtime distributed OLAP datastore from LinkedIn, has been accepted into the Apache Incubator - http://incubator.apache.org/projects/pinot.html
- IoTDB (a new massive scale IoT time series DB) and Sharding Sphere (middleware for distributed databases) have both been submitted to the Apache Incubator - IoTDB; ShardingSphere
- Apache Impala has two security announcements (fixed in 3.0.1) - CVE-2018-11785 and CVE-2018-11792
- More from Data Artisans on stateful processing with Apache Flink - link