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Snowflake and the Pursuit Of Precision Medicine

Snowflake

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has dramatically dropped the price of genomic sequencing, from about $1 million in 2007 to $600 today per whole genome sequencing (WGS). Snowflake has a role to play in accelerating the creation of FAIRified data products, namely, data storage, data processing, collaboration and productization.

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Top 8 Data Engineering Books [Beginners to Advanced]

Knowledge Hut

Key Benefits and Takeaways: Understand data intake strategies and data transformation procedures by learning data engineering principles with Python. Investigate alternative data storage solutions, such as databases and data lakes. Key Benefits and Takeaways: Learn the core concepts of big data systems.

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Hands-On Introduction to Delta Lake with (py)Spark

Towards Data Science

Concepts, theory, and functionalities of this modern data storage framework Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Introduction I think it’s now perfectly clear to everybody the value data can have. To use a hyped example, models like ChatGPT could only be built on a huge mountain of data, produced and collected over years.

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RocksDB Is Eating the Database World

Rockset

While traditional RDBMS databases served well the data storage and data processing needs of the enterprise world from their commercial inception in the late 1970s until the dotcom era, the large amounts of data processed by the new applications—and the speed at which this data needs to be processed—required a new approach.