The Mid Week News 27/03/2019 edit 
Wow, yet another week has passed. Let’s peek at the news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Calcite is up to 1.19
- Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++ is up to 0.6
- Elasticsearch and Elasticsearch-Hadoop have hit 6.7
Other technology news:
- There’s (always) more Cloudera (Hortonworks) information, this time on their new data platform from the recent DataWorks Summit - The Register summary; The Register interview; ZDNet
- On the continuing story of open source licences, the latest take from ZDNet - link
- From Confluence, doing watermarks and triggers in Kafka Streams which doesn’t believe in them - link
- And again from Confluence, distributed tracing of Kafka based solutions using Zipkin - link
- Azure Premium Blob Storage is now generally available - link
- Short thoughts from Datanmi on Greenplum 6 - link