August is a good time to start new things – some people are on vacation and have more spare time to read than usual, while others are back and looking for a quick refresher on what’s new in data engineering.

We’re launching this Annotated series to find interesting and useful content on different topics around data engineering, such as news, technical articles, tools, future conferences, and more. And yes, at the time of writing “we” is just me, Pasha. If you think I missed something worthwhile, feel free to ping me on Twitter and suggest a topic, link, idea, or anything else.

Today’s release marks another step in our grand unified theory of UI development with Kotlin! We have a lot of news to talk about for our multiplatform UI efforts, including Compose for Desktop and Co