Niels Berglund

Week 24 tech roundup: writing loops instead of prompts, self-service analytics with Claude, Managed Agents on a schedule, the Fable 5 launch, and the US government's directive to pull it days later.

This week I cover Hoptimator for data pipelines, using Confluent Kafka to reduce churn, materialized views and streaming tables for Databricks SQL, and Data Saturday Durban.