All Data and AI Weekly #208: 22 Sept 2025

 

( AI, Data, NiFi, Iceberg, Polaris, Streamlit, Flink, Kafka, Python, Java, SQL, MCP, LLM, RAG, Cortex AI, AISQL, Search, Unstructured Data )

#208: 22 Sept 2025

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Monthly NYC and Youtube Events

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Code and Open Source Projects

AWS New York Summit https://github.com/tspannhw/conferences/tree/main/2025/awsny

Hex + Snowflake Hackathon https://github.com/tspannhw/hackathons/tree/main/2025-07-15

Apache NiFi + AI Agents + Cortex AI + Snowflake AISQL

https://github.com/tspannhw/TrafficAI/tree/main/Agents

https://github.com/tspannhw/transit-ridership

https://github.com/tspannhw/conferences

https://github.com/tspannhw/hackathons/tree/main/2025-07-15

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Latest News from Apache NiFi

We're kicking off this week's news with the official release of Apache NiFi 2.6.0. This new version brings several bug fixes and performance improvements to the data flow automation tool. You can find more details on the key changes and download the new version below.

Industry Updates: SQL, AI & Big Data

This week saw a number of new developments and releases across the data and AI landscape, including updates from Snowflake and new open-source projects.

SQL & Data Warehousing

  • Snowflake Dynamic Tables: A detailed look into Snowflake's Dynamic Tables, which simplify the creation of fresh, reliable data pipelines.
  • Postgres Streaming: Check out pgstream, an open-source tool from Xataio for streaming changes from a PostgreSQL database.
  • OpenStreetMap to PostgreSQL: The osm2pgsql project provides a flexible way to load OpenStreetMap data into a PostgreSQL database.
  • Snowflake Labs MCP: A new framework from Snowflake Labs for building agentic applications on the Snowflake platform.

AI & Machine Learning

  • Snowflake Cortex Pricing: A breakdown of the pricing for Snowflake Cortex, their managed AI service for building LLM-powered applications.
  • Snowflake Cortex Webinar: A virtual hands-on lab from Snowflake on creating context-rich agents using Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Knowledge Extensions.
  • Google Agentic Commerce: A look at a new project from Google focused on agentic systems for e-commerce.
  • semlib: An open-source Python library for building semantic models.

Other Noteworthy Tools & Topics

  • DBTA Big Data 75: The annual list of companies driving innovation in big data for the upcoming year.
  • The Business Value of Data & AI: A Snowflake blog post discussing the importance of data and AI leadership in driving business value.
  • QGIS: The official GitHub for QGIS, a free and open-source geographic information system.
  • Asciinema: Documentation for the open-source tool that allows you to record and share your terminal sessions.
  • Browser-use: A GitHub repository for a project related to browser usage.

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