Weekly Reading List

This page contains a list of articles I've read and found interesting over the past week.

Over the past week, I have been reading about climate risks and the defense sector's media links, data lakehouse architectures, event-driven data models, and digital government reforms.

Friday - 05 June 2026

• British way of life under threat from heat, flooding and drought - Climate Change Committee

  The Climate Change Committee today publishes A Well-Adapted UK. This new report sets out a comprehensive package of solutions to address the growing impacts of climate change affecting every aspect of life in the UK.

  Tags: Climate Change, Environmental Policy, Flood Protection, Water Conservation, Sustainable Agriculture

  Author: CCC Secretariat

Thursday - 04 June 2026

• Military experts or arms industry insiders? UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases - AOAV

  Here AOAV finds that UK media outlets frequently present retired senior military figures as independent defence experts without disclosing their commercial ties to defence, security, intelligence, and technology industries, potentially obscuring conflicts of interest in public debates over war and military spending.

  Tags: military expertise, media transparency, defence industry, conflict of interest, UK defence policy

  Author: Iain Overton

Wednesday - 03 June 2026

• Databricks Zerobus: Event Streams + The Lakehouse - Confessions of a Data Guy

  I had not been thinking much about Kafka lately, but depending on who you ask, Kafka is either sitting comfortably at the top of the streaming world or beginning a slow decline into abstraction. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I’ve seen a number of newish streaming tools, many Rust-based, come in like […]

  Tags: data streaming, lakehouse architecture, Databricks, real-time data processing, Apache Arrow

  Author: Daniel

• Event-Driven Data Architecture

  Working with data during the last 8 years of my life I believe I have seen some structural changes in the data landscape. Not only…

  Tags: machine learning, Data Architecture, Data Lakehouse, event-driven systems, microservices

  Author: Pedro Marquez

• The 2025 & 2026 Ultimate Guide to the Data Lakehouse and the Data Lakehouse Ecosystem

  Join the Data Lakehouse Community Data Lakehouse Blog Listings Year-end 2025 reflections, looking…

  Tags: Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Big Data, Data Lakehouse, Apache

  Author: Alex Merced

• Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government

  Report of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

  Tags: Digital Government , digital transformation, Public Sector, information security, Technology Policy

  Author: nan