This newsletter rounds up deep dives on modern data tooling—from Fable 5’s performance on complex analytic tasks to Airbnb’s flexible multi-product data architecture and PostgreSQL Anonymizer’s new local differential privacy features. It also links to articles on lakehouse governance with Gravitino, vector storage advances, streaming runtimes, and orchestration reactions to Dagster’s price hike.

This article walks through setting up a future-proof data stack by outsourcing ingestion to turnkey tools, sticking with SQL-based transforms, and carefully integrating AI without ignoring fundamentals. It also covers key areas like data quality, storage and compute choices, and when to move from replicas to a full warehouse or lakehouse.