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Snowflake Startup Challenge 2024: Announcing the 10 Semi-Finalists

Snowflake

The list of Top 10 semi-finalists is a perfect example: we have use cases for cybersecurity, gen AI, food safety, restaurant chain pricing, quantitative trading analytics, geospatial data, sales pipeline measurement, marketing tech and healthcare. Our sincere thanks go out to everyone who participated in this year’s competition.

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Centralize Your Data Processes With a DataOps Process Hub

DataKitchen

The typical pharmaceutical organization faces many challenges which slow down the data team: Raw, barely integrated data sets require engineers to perform manual , repetitive, error-prone work to create analyst-ready data sets. Cloud computing has made it much easier to integrate data sets, but that’s only the beginning.

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Snowpark Offers Expanded Capabilities Including Fully Managed Containers, Native ML APIs, New Python Versions, External Access, Enhanced DevOps and More

Snowflake

Snowpark is our secure deployment and processing of non-SQL code, consisting of two layers: Familiar Client Side Libraries – Snowpark brings deeply integrated, DataFrame-style programming and OSS compatible APIs to the languages data practitioners like to use. Previously, tasks could be executed as quickly as 1-minute.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

AltexSoft

Its flexibility allows it to operate on single-node machines and large clusters, serving as a multi-language platform for executing data engineering , data science , and machine learning tasks. Before diving into the world of Spark, we suggest you get acquainted with data engineering in general. Big data processing.

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LiveRamp Customers Build ‘Foundation of Identity’ With Snowflake Native Apps

Snowflake

It’s a potentially cumbersome and time-consuming process that too often requires moving or sharing access to sensitive customer data. Sometimes they need feedback on touchpoints very quickly, while other pipelines don’t need as much acceleration. One conversation quickly coming to the forefront is first-party data.

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Ripple's Centralized Data Platform

Ripple Engineering

The key aspect of any business-centric team in delivering products and features is to make critical decisions on ensuring low latency, high throughput, cost-effective storage, and highly efficient infrastructure. Multiple data processing systems also make building detailed dashboards and monitoring very difficult.

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Azure Data Engineer vs Azure DevOps: Top 8 Differences

Knowledge Hut

An Azure Data Engineer is a professional responsible for designing, implementing, and managing data solutions using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. They work with various Azure services and tools to build scalable, efficient, and reliable data pipelines, data storage solutions, and data processing systems.