In January 2026, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform that automates complex data transformation, integration, and quality tasks. This acquisition signals Microsoft’s commitment to bringing autonomous AI agents into the data engineering workflow within Microsoft Fabric. For data engineers struggling with repetitive ETL development, schema mapping, and data quality […]
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Building the Modern Data Stack: How Spark, Kafka, and dbt Transformed Data Engineering
The data engineering landscape has undergone a fundamental transformation over the past decade. What once required massive Hadoop clusters has evolved into a sophisticated ecosystem of specialized tools: Kafka for ingestion, Spark for processing, and dbt for transformation. Modern Data Stack Architecture The Paradigm Shift: Monolithic → Modular The old approach centered around monolithic platforms […]
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