Great to spend 3 days with students & faculty at Universidad Panamericana in Aguascalientes 🇲🇽 for the UP–Apache Texera Hackathon! Hands-on work, talks & discussions on data science, AI/ML, data management, and open source. ¡Gracias y hasta pronto! texera.apache.org/ #ApacheTexera #AI #DataScience #OpenSource

Last Thursday (Sept. 3), we hosted an NSF BRIDGE & Apache Texera Meetup in Boston during VLDB 2026. It was a great opportunity to connect with colleagues and exchange ideas about data and compute infrastructure, data science, AI/ML, agents, cloud computing, and open-source systems. We also had many valuable discussions about how the NSF BRIDGE data cyberinfrastructure and Apache Texera (Incubating) can support scientific communities by making data, computing, and AI capabilities more accessible, and how we can collaborate with researchers and infrastructure projects across different domains. Many thanks to everyone who joined us and contributed to the discussions. We look forward to continuing these conversations and exploring new research and collaboration opportunities. If you are interested in collaborating with NSF BRIDGE or Apache Texera, please feel free to reach out! 🔗 Meetup: luma.com/gzyflpkf 🔗 Apache Texera: texera.apache.org/ #NSF #BRIDGE #ApacheTexera #VLDB2026 #DataScience #AI #Cyberinfrastructure #OpenSource #ResearchCollaboration

🎉 𝐀𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝟏.𝟐.𝟎-𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞! With 𝟒𝟓𝟎+ 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬 since 1.1.0, this release makes Texera smarter with built-in AI capabilities, stronger in the workflow engine, and more secure and cloud-ready than ever. 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞: 🤖 Agent Service and LiteLLM integration in both single-node and Helm deployments, with more operator types supported by default 🤗 Hugging Face model browsing and media proxy support 🧊 Lakekeeper-powered Iceberg Catalog for Kubernetes deployments 🧭 Cross-region workflow state materialization, and stronger workflow graph validation 🎨 New Python UDF parameter forms, public dataset gallery, cover images, clipboard actions, and other UI improvements ⚙️ Under the hood: Java 17 LTS, non-root service containers, PostgreSQL connection pooling, admin compute configuration, and simplified deployment configuration A huge thank-you to everyone who contributed to this release! 🙌 🚀 Try it out, share your feedback, and join the Texera community at [email protected] 🔗 Release notes: texera.apache.org/releases/1… 📦 Download: texera.apache.org/downloads/ 📖 Documentation: texera.apache.org/docs/v1.2.… #ApacheTexera #ApacheSoftwareFoundation #OpenSource #DataScience #DataEngineering #AI #Python #Java #Kubernetes #SoftwareEngineering #HuggingFace

We organized an NSF-funded "Data Science for All" summer program (ds4all.ics.uci.edu/) from 07/08 – 07/19/2024, to teach 16 high-school students data science, AI, and ML, using Texera. Here are photos (photos.app.goo.gl/JRBrJWFaoq…). #DataScience