Recently we released a new build of the Big Data Tools plugin that is compatible with the 2021.3 versions of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and PyCharm Professional. DataGrip 2021.3 support will be available immediately after the release in October. The plugin also supports our new data science IDE – JetBrains DataSpell. If you still use previous versions, now is the perfect time to upgrade both your IDE

August is usually a quiet month, with vacations taking their toll. But data engineering never stops. I’m Pasha Finkelshteyn and I will be your guide through this month’s news, my impressions of the developments, and ideas from the wider community. If you think I missed something worthwhile, ping me on Twitter and suggest a topic, link, or anything else. News A lot of engineering is about lea

August is a good time to start new things – some people are on vacation and have more spare time to read than usual, while others are back and looking for a quick refresher on what’s new in data engineering. We’re launching this Annotated series to find interesting and useful content on different topics around data engineering, such as news, technical articles, tools, future conferences, and more. And yes, at the time of writing “we” is just me, Pasha. If you think I missed something worthwhile, feel free to ping me on Twitter and suggest a topic, link, idea, or anything else.

The Kotlin API for Apache Spark is now widely available. This is the first stable release of the API that we consider to be feature-complete with respect to the user experience and compatibility with core Spark APIs. Get on Maven Central Let’s take a look at the new features this release brings to the API. Typed select and sortMore column functionsMore KeyValueGroupedDataset wrapper funct

In recent Big Data Tools releases, we've added a lot of new features, like Kafka support, a New Project wizard, additional Zeppelin settings, improved Python support, and more. We’ve received a lot of requests for us to polish these new additions, and we’ve taken this feedback to heart. Version 1.2 is a massive bug-fix release that greatly improves a wide array of features, both new and old. He

We released another update of the Big Data Tools plugin recently, and this article is an overview of its new features. The previous release was a momentous event for us as the plugin left the Early Access preview stage and became generally available. Since then, we've received a lot of feedback from you and have started developing features that the community wants. For example, Big Data Tools n