June 27, 2025

Squid Game release 🦑🎮

Squid Game release 🦑🎮

Step into the arena with the Squid Games release! This update introduces powerful new features and integrations to help you outplay data challenges and level up your workflows. Here’s what’s new and improved:

🦸 New AI Sidekick

Meet your new AI companion. The AI Sidekick helps you build, debug, and optimize your Mage pipelines faster by offering smart suggestions, contextual help, and a productivity boost for every data engineer.


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🔥 PySpark + Apache Iceberg Integration

Mage Pro now supports reading and writing Apache Iceberg tables directly within your pipelines using Mage’s built-in PySpark integration. This unlocks scalable, high-performance data lake operations from your familiar Mage interface.

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🦆 DuckDB Data Integration Destination

Send your data directly to DuckDB. With this new destination connector, you can leverage DuckDB’s speed and simplicity for analytics and storage right from your Mage pipelines.


📺 YouTube Analytics Data Integration Source

Bring YouTube Analytics into your data ecosystem. Seamlessly ingest video performance metrics, audience insights, and more to power your reporting and analytics workflows.


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The Squid Games release is all about strategy, adaptability, and staying ahead of the game. With a smarter AI sidekick, advanced PySpark-Iceberg support, and new integrations for DuckDB and YouTube Analytics, Mage is more versatile and powerful than ever.

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