A Ukrainian man, Serhii K, is set to stand trial in Hamburg for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022, accused of commanding Europe's largest act of sabotage in decades. German police tracked him through forensic evidence and DNA left on a rented yacht, leading to his arrest in Italy in August 2025. Both he and Ukraine have denied involvement in the explosions that ruptured the gas supply to Germany.
The article argues that data engineering should adopt DevOps principles by treating data pipelines as software problems. Instead of the current Extract-Load-Transform model where data teams reverse-engineer raw tables with long feedback loops, pipelines should be versioned in code repositories, tested through CI/CD, and operated as 24x7 services with SLOs, enabling faster iteration and reducing the need to store raw data indefinitely.