This week we feature articles from Alex Hutter, Alexandre Bertails, Claire Wang, Haoyuan He, Kishore Banala, Peter Royal & Shervin Afshar, and Max Ganz II.
Additional reading comes from José Parra-Moyano, Patrick Reinmoeller & Karl Schmedders, Paolo Perrone, Umesh Bhatt, and Jim Clyde Monge.
News comes from Cloudflare, Grammarly & Superhuman, Syncro Soft, and RWS & Papercut.
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Opinion / Analysis
Model once, represent everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
A team from Netflix generously describes how they are tackling their data integration challenges. The case study addresses issues that stymie many modern data management efforts. It is a bit technical, but easily worth the effort.
“This post introduces the foundations of UDA as a knowledge graph, connecting domain models to data containers through mappings, and grounded in an in-house metamodel, or model of models, called Upper. Upper defines the language for domain modeling in UDA and enables projections that automatically generate schemas and pipelines across systems.” (15 min)
https://netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-data-architecture-6a6aee261d8d
The different flavors modern databases come in
The actual title of the paper is Introduction to the fundamentals of Amazon Redshift, by Max Ganz. I chose the title above because even if you have no interest in Redshift, you’ll likely want to read this piece. As Tim Bray says, it “has one of the best explanations I’ve ever read of the different flavors modern databases come in”. Long but easy read. (44 min)
More Reading
- Research: Executives who used Gen AI made worse predictions via HBR
- 5 advanced data structures every dev should know via Data Science Collective
- Latent Knowledge Graphs via Umesh Bhatt
- Cursor now available on mobile and web via Generative AI
Content technology news
Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers accessing content by default
Websites choose if they want AI crawlers to access their content, and decide how AI companies can use it – AI companies can state their crawlers purpose.
https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large/
Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 6.0
The Oxygen AI Positron Service brings model updates, subscription management for teams, allowing centralized purchase or renewal, and requires AI Positron add-ons version 4 or newer.
https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron/whats_new.html
Grammarly to acquire Superhuman
The acquisition accelerates Grammarly’s evolution into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents, positioning email as a critical communication surface.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-to-acquire-superhuman/ ■ https://superhuman.com
RWS acquires Papercup’s IP
Papercup’s technology combines voice synthesis, unique AI voices and editorial tools for human language specialists to fine-tune the output.
https://www.rws.com/about/news/2025/rws-acquires-papercups-ip/ ■ https://www.papercup.com
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