[65] The Pipeline Pulse: 22-June-2025 - # 18 - Advancing Analytics - Real-Time Analytics Surge, Secure Pipelines, and AI-Powered Scale
Puneet, Data Plumbers
Welcome to this week’s Pipeline Pulse, where we dive into the latest advancements shaping the data analytics landscape. From Google Cloud’s BigQuery vectorization boost to AWS’s zero-ETL SageMaker Lakehouse integration, the focus is clear: real-time intelligence is king. Microsoft Fabric and Databricks are doubling down on seamless data ingestion and secure Git workflows, while Snowflake’s Snowpark PyPI support and Diskover investment supercharge AI and governance. These updates from leading OEMs—AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Snowflake, and Databricks—signal a future where scalable, secure, and AI-driven pipelines are the backbone of enterprise analytics. Let’s unpack the highlights for data engineers, analysts, and AI practitioners!
Here’s your weekly roundup of the most valuable developments from across the data landscape.
Curated with data professionals in mind—engineers, analysts, and scientists—each item is selected based on its practical relevance and strategic impact.
This week’s highlights focus on:
• Actionable Tools & Techniques: Frameworks, tutorials, and utilities that enhance real-world analytics workflows.
• Innovative Breakthroughs: New models, capabilities, and platform updates pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with data.
• Industry Signals: Key trends, strategic moves, and events shaping the future of data work.
• Foundational Data Practices: Topics like pipeline design, data integrity, lakehouse architecture, and governance—everything mission-critical for modern analytics.
Items marked with 🟦 are a must read.
Amazon Web Services
Data Engineering, Integration & Interoperability
AWS Zero-ETL for SageMaker Lakehouse - Describes zero-ETL integration for Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, reducing time to access transactional data for analytics 🟦
Governance, Security & Compliance
AWS Security Hub for Risk Prioritization - Introduces AWS Security Hub’s new features for risk prioritization and response, enhancing data security in analytics workflows 🟦
Visualization & BI Tools, Integration & Interoperability
AWS Redshift and QuickSight Multi-Region Analytics - Explains how to build a multi-region analytics solution using Amazon Redshift, S3, and QuickSight for scalable BI and real-time insights 🟦
Databricks
Data Engineering, AI & Machine Learning in Analytics, Governance, Security & Compliance
Azure Databricks: Unified Data and AI Platform - Details Azure Databricks’ integrations with Microsoft Power BI, Unity Catalog for governance, and AI/BI Genie for natural language querying, enhancing enterprise analytics 🟦
Data Engineering, Governance, Security & Compliance
Databricks OAuth 2.0 for Git Integration - Announces OAuth 2.0 support for Git credential management in Databricks, improving secure data engineering workflows 🟦
Google Cloud Platform
Data Engineering, AI & Machine Learning in Analytics
Google Cloud’s BigQuery Enhanced Vectorization - Details BigQuery’s enhanced vectorization for improved query performance and AI-driven analytics capabilities 🟦
Data Engineering, Integration & Interoperability
Google Cloud Spanner Wins ACM SIGMOD Award - Announces Spanner’s 2025 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award for its contributions to scalable database systems and analytics
Data Engineering, Visualization & BI Tools
Google Cloud Next 2025: BigQuery and Looker Updates - Highlights new BigQuery features like autonomous data to AI platform enhancements and Looker’s conversational BI capabilities, emphasizing open formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg) and AI-driven analytics 🟦
Microsoft Azure & Microsoft Fabric
Data Engineering, Integration & Interoperability
Microsoft Fabric: Real-Time Intelligence with MCP Support - Introduces Managed Control Plane (MCP) support for real-time intelligence in Microsoft Fabric, enhancing data ingestion and processing capabilities 🟦
Microsoft Fabric Eventhouse: Eventstream Support - Introduces eventstream-derived streams in direct ingestion mode for Microsoft Fabric’s Eventhouse, enhancing real-time data processing 🟦
Snowflake
Data Engineering, AI & Machine Learning in Analytics
Snowflake’s Snowpark Supports PyPI Packages - Announces Snowpark’s support for PyPI packages, enabling advanced data processing and AI/ML workloads within Snowflake’s platform 🟦
Data Engineering, Integration & Interoperability
Katalyze AI: Biomanufacturing Data Transformation - Case study on how Katalyze AI uses Snowflake to optimize biomanufacturing data, improving analytics efficiency
Know About
Top 5 Distributed ML Frameworks for 2025 - Reviews frameworks for distributed machine learning, offering insights into scalable AI model training for data scientists
Real-Time Pricing Pipeline - Describes building a real-time pricing pipeline, focusing on data engineering techniques for dynamic pricing analytics