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A Prequel to Data Mesh

Towards Data Science

Business units required data relevant to their analysis. Result: Companies started to sell pre-configured data warehouses as products. The concept of `Data Marts` was introduced. Image by the author 2004 to 2010 — The elephant enters the room New wave of applications emerged — Social Media, Software observability, etc.

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Data Analysis with Spark

Zalando Engineering

The processes that run the computation and store data of your application are executors: Returns computed data to the driver. For Big Data processing, the most common form of data is key-value pairs. Spark enables us to project down such complex data types to key-value pairs as Pair RDD.

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Industry Interview Series- How Big Data is Transforming Business Intelligence?

ProjectPro

We know that data warehouse is very big and a very complicated tool to maintain and to meet Big Data problems. In BI we just consider structured data. We never imagined that we can also analyze some videos or logs or similar semi-structured data. We just focused on structured data on the databases.

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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

The job of a data engineer is to develop models using machine learning to scan, label and organize this unstructured data. This process helps convert the unstructured data into structured data, which can easily be collected and interpreted using analytical tools.