The Mid Week News 08/05/2019 edit 
It’s news time again, and we’ve used a real date this time…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Drill as hit 1.16
- Amazon EMR is up to 5.23
- Amazon S3 now supports Batch Operations
Other technology news:
- ZDNet have all the data updates from Microsoft Build - link
- From Microsoft, details on the latest updates to Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL Data Warehouse - link
- From Google, how Google Cloud DataPrep (based on Trifacta) helps you manage Data Quality - link
- Bloor have all the latest on Teradata Vantage, and their split of storage and computer - link
- From Datanami - some people have got very large cloud bills - link
- Google have some best practices for data governance in the cloud - link
- Microsoft have announced high performance C# and F# Spark libraries - link
- eBay have announced Beam, an open source distributed RDF store - link
- Confluent have a post on optimising Kafka Streams applications - link