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BigQuery is a serverless, multicloud data warehouse that simplifies the process of working with all types of data so you can focus on getting valuable business insights quickly. At the core of Google’s data cloud, BigQuery allows you to simplify data integration, cost effectively and securely scale analytics, share rich data experiences with built-in business intelligence, and train and deploy ML models with a simple SQL interface, helping to make your organization’s operations more data-driven. Gemini in BigQuery offers AI-driven tools for assistance and collaboration, such as code suggestions, visual data preparation, and smart recommendations designed to boost efficiency and reduce costs. BigQuery delivers an integrated platform featuring SQL, a notebook, and a natural language-based canvas interface, catering to data professionals with varying coding expertise. This unified workspace streamlines the entire analytics process.

GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.

Whether you're looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud.

Microsoft's Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows for rapid and secure application development, testing and management. Azure. Invent with purpose. Turn ideas into solutions with more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. The cloud you can trust, with the numbers to prove it.

Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy. Free for small teams under 5 and priced to scale with Standard ($3/user/mo) or Premium ($6/user/mo) plans. Keep your projects organized by creating Bitbucket branches right from Jira issues or Trello cards. Build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Approve code review more efficiently with pull requests. Create a merge checklist with designated approvers and hold discussions right in the source code with inline comments. Bitbucket Pipelines with Deployments lets you build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Know your code is secure in the Cloud with IP whitelisting and required 2-step verification. Restrict access to certain users, and control their actions with branch permissions and merge checks for quality code.

Snowflake is a comprehensive AI Data Cloud platform designed to eliminate data silos and simplify data architectures, enabling organizations to get more value from their data. The platform offers interoperable storage that provides near-infinite scale and access to diverse data sources, both inside and outside Snowflake. Its elastic compute engine delivers high performance for any number of users, workloads, and data volumes with seamless scalability. Snowflake’s Cortex AI accelerates enterprise AI by providing secure access to leading large language models (LLMs) and data chat services. The platform’s cloud services automate complex resource management, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency. Trusted by over 11,000 global customers across industries, Snowflake helps businesses collaborate on data, build data applications, and maintain a competitive edge.

Azure DevOps is a comprehensive set of modern development tools that help teams plan smarter, collaborate better, and deliver software faster. It provides services like Azure Boards for work tracking, Azure Pipelines for continuous integration and deployment, Azure Repos for Git-based source control, and Azure Test Plans for quality assurance. With built-in support for GitHub Copilot, developers can boost productivity by leveraging AI-assisted coding. The platform offers seamless integration with a variety of tools and supports any language, platform, or cloud environment. Azure DevOps emphasizes security with extensive compliance certifications and a dedicated engineering team. Trusted by leading global companies, it enables organizations to accelerate development cycles while maintaining high code quality and operational agility.

More customers pick Amazon Redshift than any other cloud data warehouse. Redshift powers analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. Companies like Lyft have grown with Redshift from startups to multi-billion dollar enterprises. No other data warehouse makes it as easy to gain new insights from all your data. With Redshift you can query petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across your data warehouse, operational database, and your data lake using standard SQL. Redshift lets you easily save the results of your queries back to your S3 data lake using open formats like Apache Parquet to further analyze from other analytics services like Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, and Amazon SageMaker. Redshift is the world’s fastest cloud data warehouse and gets faster every year. For performance intensive workloads you can use the new RA3 instances to get up to 3x the performance of any cloud data warehouse.

Version control, quality assurance, documentation and modularity allow data teams to collaborate like software engineering teams. Analytics errors should be treated with the same level of urgency as bugs in a production product. Much of an analytic workflow is manual. We believe workflows should be built to execute with a single command. Data teams use dbt to codify business logic and make it accessible to the entire organization—for use in reporting, ML modeling, and operational workflows. Built-in CI/CD ensures that changes to data models move appropriately through development, staging, and production environments. dbt Cloud also provides guaranteed uptime and custom SLAs.

5X is an all-in-one data platform that provides everything you need to centralize, clean, model, and analyze your data. Designed to simplify data management, 5X offers seamless integration with over 500 data sources, ensuring uninterrupted data movement across all your systems with pre-built and custom connectors. The platform encompasses ingestion, warehousing, modeling, orchestration, and business intelligence, all rendered in an easy-to-use interface. 5X supports various data movements, including SaaS apps, databases, ERPs, and files, automatically and securely transferring data to data warehouses and lakes. With enterprise-grade security, 5X encrypts data at the source, identifying personally identifiable information and encrypting data at a column level. The platform is designed to reduce the total cost of ownership by 30% compared to building your own platform, enhancing productivity with a single interface to build end-to-end data pipelines.

Orchestra is a Unified Control Plane for Data and AI Operations, designed to help data teams build, deploy, and monitor workflows with ease. It offers a declarative framework that combines code and GUI, allowing users to implement workflows 10x faster and reduce maintenance time by 50%. With real-time metadata aggregation, Orchestra provides full-stack data observability, enabling proactive alerting and rapid recovery from pipeline failures. It integrates seamlessly with tools like dbt Core, dbt Cloud, Coalesce, Airbyte, Fivetran, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and more, ensuring compatibility with existing data stacks. Orchestra's modular architecture supports AWS, Azure, and GCP, making it a versatile solution for enterprises and scale-ups aiming to streamline their data operations and build trust in their AI initiatives.

OpenMetadata is an open, unified metadata platform that centralizes all metadata for data discovery, observability, and governance in a single interface. It leverages a Unified Metadata Graph and 80+ turnkey connectors to collect metadata from databases, pipelines, BI tools, ML systems, and more, providing a complete data context that enables teams to search, facet, and preview assets across their entire estate. Its API‑ and schema‑first architecture offers extensible metadata entities and relationships, giving organizations precise control and customization over their metadata model. Built with only four core system components, the platform is designed for simple setup, operation, and scalable performance, allowing both technical and non‑technical users to collaborate on discovery, lineage, quality, observability, collaboration, and governance workflows without complex infrastructure.

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to use data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance, and is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the uniqueness of your data. The winners in every industry will be data and AI companies. From ETL to data warehousing to generative AI, Databricks helps you simplify and accelerate your data and AI goals. Databricks combines generative AI with the unification benefits of a lakehouse to power a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the unique semantics of your data. This allows the Databricks Platform to automatically optimize performance and manage infrastructure in ways unique to your business. The Data Intelligence Engine understands your organization’s language, so search and discovery of new data is as easy as asking a question like you would to a coworker.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. There is a wealth of information to be found describing how to install and use PostgreSQL through the official documentation. The open-source community provides many helpful places to become familiar with PostgreSQL, discover how it works, and find career opportunities. Learm more on how to engage with the community. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 15.1, 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18, and 10.23. This release fixes 25 bugs reported over the last several months. This is the final release of PostgreSQL 10. PostgreSQL 10 will no longer receive security and bug fixes. If you are running PostgreSQL 10 in a production environment, we suggest that you make plans to upgrade.