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Data platforms are the next step after the Modern Data Stack, offering enhanced productivity, rapid iteration, and cost efficiency.
The evolution of technology is not linear, but branches out in many directions, leading to multiple 'next' possibilities.
New data platforms focus on integration, flexibility, and control, providing solutions for core issues like missing design, data quality, and integration challenges.

Orchestra serves as a comprehensive Data Control Panel, bridging orchestration and observability. It offers a Control Panel for Data Teams that stands out from other tools focused solely on orchestration or observability.
Orchestra integrates Git-control with a user-friendly interface and advanced scheduler functionalities, setting itself apart from open-source tools. It provides more granularity in monitoring and failure insights.
Orchestra focuses on providing a unified platform for data orchestration, observability, and operations, standing out by offering full observability, end-to-end asset-based lineage, powerful UI, hosted infrastructure, fixed pricing, and out-of-the-box integrations.

Machine learning models often lack the ability to express uncertainty, leading to overconfidence and potential inaccuracies in predictions.
Conformal prediction is a useful method to quantify uncertainty in predictive models, offering benefits like speed, model-agnosticism, and statistical guarantees.
To implement conformal prediction, one must have a heuristic score of uncertainty, ensuring that the calibration of uncertainty levels is reliable for more accurate predictions.

Understanding the pricing of data orchestration tools is crucial for managing costs efficiently in data pipelines.
Consider the trade-offs between self-hosted open-source options like Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Mage, and managed services like MWAA, Cloud Composer, Astronomer, Prefect Cloud, and Dagster Cloud.
Orchestra offers fixed pricing based on the number of pipelines and tasks, providing certainty in costs, potential savings, and efficiency gains for data teams.

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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for handling large amounts of data generated by multiple sources simultaneously.
Kafka's key functions include publishing and subscribing to streams of records, storing records in order, and processing streams in real-time, making it essential for real-time streaming data pipelines and applications.
Kafka offers 5 APIs (admin, producer, consumer, streams, connector) for managing topics, publishing streams, subscribing, implementing stream processing, and building data connectors, demonstrating its versatility and usability in system design.

Data automation and orchestration tools simplify data management tasks for ML applications.
These tools combine data from various sources, clean and transform it for specific ML algorithms.
The sector offers a broad range of tools, from ETL to specialized ML automation platforms, to cater to diverse data types and company needs.