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News from RudderStack and insights for data teams

Feature launch: Snowflake Streaming integration
Feature launch: Snowflake Streaming integration
With our Snowflake Streaming integration, you can get customer event data from every source into Snowflake faster (and save on your Snowflake bill!). Read the launch blog to learn more.
Unified data platform: How it works & why you need one
by Ryan McCrary
Understanding event data: The foundation of your customer journey
by Danika Rockett
Event streaming: What it is, how it works, and why you should use it
by Brooks Patterson

RudderStack is Now SOC 2 Certified
We are thrilled to announce that RudderStack is now SOC 2 Type 1 certified. This certification is a key milestone in ensuring we are protecting your customer data.

Why RudderStack Used Postgres Over Apache Kafka for Streaming Engine
In this post, we answer the all-important question – “Why we did not prefer Apache Kafka over PostgreSQL for building RudderStack.” We discuss some of the challenges with using Apache Kafka over our implemented solution that uses PostgreSQL.

The Data Engineering Megatrend: A Brief History
Earlier this year, Tomasz Tunguz gave a presentation on five trends in data and the "megatrend" that is powering them all. This post discusses the history of that data engineering megatrend over the past 20 years.

RudderStack + Blendo: Better Together
RudderStack acquires Blendo: Kostas Pardalis, the founder of Blendo, talks about why he decided to merge Blendo with RudderStack, building the team, and working on the product together.

The Stack of the Future: Building a Warehouse-First CDP on Snowflake Using RudderStack
Get to know about the building of the first warehouse CDP on Snowflake using RudderStack & explains the high-scale customer data needs by the engineering team.

Part 1: The Evolution of Data Pipeline Architecture
This blog talks about ETL, ELT, and the history, present, and future of data pipelines. You will know the good and bad things about various data pipeline approaches.

Part 2: The Evolution of Data Pipeline Architecture
In this post, we will go through a number of changes that have happened, both in the market and in terms of the technologies that are available. We will propose a new architecture that addresses the issues we mentioned in part 1.

The Complete Customer Data Stack: Data Collection (Part 1)
Check out part one of our two-part series on data collection. You'll learn how to collect event data and why categories are important when it comes to data collection.

The Complete Customer Data Stack: Data Collection (Part 2)
In this post, we cover how to collect relational data from both cloud applications and databases, and we explore two other lesser but still important sources of data.