ALT Devastated to share that Peter Flook passed away suddenly this weekend.

ALT Excited to announce our first ever Town Hall at the Brisbane Data Engineering conference will be led by Gargi Ahluwalia. Key Takeaways: - Open community forum — no slides, no vendor pitches - Topics are community-driven and surfaced in advance via survey - A rare space for honest, practitioner-to-practitioner conversation We dare say if you were looking for a reason to attend the conference, this is it - this may well be a career changing discussion for you... get your ticket today... don't miss out!

ALT With only 12 days left before DataEngBytes Brisbane 2026, now is the time to get your tickets sorted. We've got limited spots - so make sure to book yours today!

ALT We're excited to have Alex Merced deliver Modern Python Tooling for Apache Iceberg Key takeaways PyIceberg, iceframe, and iceberg-cli form a complementary Python toolkit for Iceberg Each tool serves a distinct purpose: library access, DataFrame-style queries, and CLI operations Together they enable Python-first teams to work productively across the full Iceberg lifecycle If this sounds like an awesome talk, why not get yourself a ticket today to the conference - it's only $175 AUD.

ALT The Native Lakehouse Is Here and Mimoune Djouallah is here to tell you all about it. - Iceberg REST Catalog is now supported across all major cloud providers — true vendor neutrality is real in 2026 - Lightweight engines like DuckDB and DataFusion can query across all of them with a single SQL interface - AI coding assistants are meaningfully accelerating lakehouse adoption and development Catch Mimoune Djouallah at DataEngBytes Brisbane on Friday, 20th of March 2026. Tickets only $175 AUD.

ALT Tickets are selling fast for DataEngBytes 2026 in Brisbane and Auckland. With both venues having hard limits on attendance, we are monitoring the ticket situation. Be sure not to miss out by booking yours now!

ALT 🇳🇿 NEW SPEAKER: @GeofHuntley is coming to #DataEngBytes Auckland (March 24) His talk: "Software Development Now Costs Less Than Minimum Wage" $10.42/hr. Less than Macca's. What does that mean for data engineers? Spoiler: a lot. 👀 🎟️ $175 NZD

ALT 🚨 Keynote drop: Marta Paes (@martalepschy) is coming to DataEngBytes 2026! "From Transactions to Analytics: Where Do We Go From Here?" A decade of CDC at scale — what actually works, what doesn't, and what's next. Marta spoke at our very first conference in 2020. Full-circle moment. 🎉 Brisbane 🗓️ Mar 20 Auckland 🗓️ Mar 24 Melbourne 🗓️ Jul 23–24 Sydney 🗓️ Jul 28–29 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/2026/speakers/marta-paes

ALT Thank you to all of you who submitted the 50 talks to our call for papers - we truly appreciate your generosity - sharing knowledge is one of the greatest things you can do for our profession.

ALT The call for papers for DataEngBytes closes at midnight on December 31st 2025.

ALT Our Call for Papers for DataEngBytes 2026 is officially OPEN!

ALT It's a real honour to have REA Group as Gold Sponsor again in 2026.