Data · Saturday, 8 August 2026 · Issue 69 · 2 stories

Airflow hits seconds, new energy math flips fossil shares

Data Engineering

Event-driven cross-account Airflow pipelines cut latency to seconds with MWAA

Airflow 3.0 on Amazon MWAA introduces asset‑based scheduling and Asset Watchers that consume SQS messages to trigger downstream DAGs across separate accounts. The event‑driven model removes polling sensors, shrinking pipeline latency from minutes to seconds while freeing worker capacity and guaranteeing message delivery.

aws.amazon.com ↗14 min read at source

Analytics & Visualization

Energy charts get a facelift: new primary-energy measurement flips fossil shares

The Energy Institute dropped its old substitution method, now counting the raw fuel input for primary energy instead of adjusting for conversion losses. As a result, fossil fuels look larger and renewables smaller across Our World in Data’s energy charts, so any trends you’ve followed need to be re‑read with the new baseline.

ourworldindata.org ↗7 min read at source

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