The Mid Week News 30/01/2019 edit 
News time again, and it’s a quiet week…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Hadoop has hit 3.2
- InfluxDB has a 2.0 alpha release out
Other technology news:
- From the ever excellent The Morning Papers - offloading MPP query processing to the network switch - link
- Confluent has raised another $125m - blog
- And on the subject on Confluent, ZDNet have a good piece on them - link
- From The Register, the number of malicious attacks on Hadoop clusters are on the rise - link
- And from Bloor, their latest paper on comparative costs of different Data Integration platforms based on customer surveys (requires payment for commercial use) - link