phData: Data Engineering

APRIL 4, 2023

Today we want to introduce Fivetran’s support for Amazon S3 with Apache Iceberg, investigate some of the implications of this feature, and learn how it fits into the modern data architecture as a whole. Fivetran today announced support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Apache Iceberg data lake format.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 16, 2019

Summary Building and maintaining a data lake is a choose your own adventure of tools, services, and evolving best practices. The flexibility and freedom that data lakes provide allows for generating significant value, but it can also lead to anti-patterns and inconsistent quality in your analytics.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

Summary The current trend in data management is to centralize the responsibilities of storing and curating the organization’s information to a data engineering team. This organizational pattern is reinforced by the architectural pattern of data lakes as a solution for managing storage and access.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 17, 2023

Summary Architectural decisions are all based on certain constraints and a desire to optimize for different outcomes. In data systems one of the core architectural exercises is data modeling, which can have significant impacts on what is and is not possible for downstream use cases.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 23, 2023

When it comes to the data community, there’s always a debate broiling about something— and right now “data mesh vs data lake” is right at the top of that list. In this post we compare and contrast the data mesh vs data lake to illustrate the benefits of each and help discover what’s right for your data platform.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Anyways, I wasn’t paying enough attention during university classes, and today I’ll walk you through data layers using —  guess what  —  an example. Business Scenario & Data Architecture Imagine this: next year, a new team on the grid, Red Thunder Racing, will call us (yes, me and you) to set up their new data infrastructure.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 4, 2023

Data mesh vs data warehouse is an interesting framing because it is not necessarily a binary choice depending on what exactly you mean by data warehouse (more on that later). Despite their differences, however, both approaches require high-quality, reliable data in order to function. What is a Data Mesh?

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 16, 2024

My personal take on justifying the existence of Data Mesh A senior stakeholder at one my projects mentioned that they wanted to decentralise their data platform architecture and democratise data across the organisation. When I heard the words ‘decentralised data architecture’, I was left utterly confused at first!

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 14, 2023

In this post, we will help you quickly level up your overall knowledge of data pipeline architecture by reviewing: Table of Contents What is data pipeline architecture? Why is data pipeline architecture important? What is data pipeline architecture? Why is data pipeline architecture important?

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Scott Logic

APRIL 18, 2024

In this episode, Oliver Cronk, Andrew Carr and David Hope talk about the ever-changing world of data, with conversations moving from data warehouse to data lake, and data mesh to data fabric.

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Monte Carlo

MAY 14, 2024

As organizations seek greater value from their data, data architectures are evolving to meet the demand — and table formats are no exception. It was designed to support high-volume data exchange and compatibility across different system versions, which is essential for streaming architectures such as Apache Kafka.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Summary The market for data warehouse platforms is large and varied, with options for every use case. We have partnered with organizations such as O’Reilly Media, Dataversity, and the Open Data Science Conference. Coming up this fall is the combined events of Graphorum and the Data Architecture Summit.

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AltexSoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The pun being obvious, there’s more to that than just a new term: Data lakehouses combine the best features of both data lakes and data warehouses and this post will explain this all. What is a data lakehouse? Data warehouse vs data lake vs data lakehouse: What’s the difference.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 28, 2024

Role Level Intermediate Responsibilities Design and develop data pipelines to ingest, process, and transform data. Implemented and managed data storage solutions using Azure services like Azure SQL Database , Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Cosmos DB.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 1, 2021

Over the past few years, data lakes have emerged as a must-have for the modern data stack. But while the technologies powering our access and analysis of data have matured, the mechanics behind understanding this data in a distributed environment have lagged behind. Data discovery tools and platforms can help.

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Cloudera

JUNE 18, 2022

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. On data warehouses and data lakes.

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ProjectPro

JULY 22, 2016

For the same cost, organizations can now store 50 times as much data as in a Hadoop data lake than in a data warehouse. Data lake is gaining momentum across various organizations and everyone wants to know how to implement a data lake and why.

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Rockset

APRIL 26, 2023

We’ve noticed many common patterns across streaming data architectures and we’ll be sharing a blueprint for three of the most popular: anomaly detection, IoT, and recommendations. The majority of anomaly detectors require streaming data, real-time data and historical data in order to generate inferences.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2022

As the demand for big data grows, an increasing number of businesses are turning to cloud data warehouses. The cloud is the only platform to handle today's colossal data volumes because of its flexibility and scalability. Launched in 2014, Snowflake is one of the most popular cloud data solutions on the market.

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AltexSoft

JULY 19, 2022

In the last few decades, we’ve seen a lot of architectural approaches to building data pipelines , changing one another and promising better and easier ways of deriving insights from information. There have been relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and even a combination of the latter two.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this context, data management in an organization is a key point for the success of its projects involving data. One of the main aspects of correct data management is the definition of a data architecture. What is Delta Lake? The data became useless. The Lakehouse architecture was one of them.

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Using the metaphor of a museum curator carefully managing the precious resources on display and in the vaults, he discusses the various layers of an enterprise data strategy. Can you walk through the stages of an ideal lifecycle for data within the context of an organizations uses for it?

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ProjectPro

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Data pipelines are a significant part of the big data domain, and every professional working or willing to work in this field must have extensive knowledge of them. As data is expanding exponentially, organizations struggle to harness digital information's power for different business use cases. What is a Big Data Pipeline?

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Cloudera

JUNE 30, 2022

Over the past decade, Cloudera has enabled multi-function analytics on data lakes through the introduction of the Hive table format and Hive ACID. Companies, on the other hand, have continued to demand highly scalable and flexible analytic engines and services on the data lake, without vendor lock-in.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 20, 2021

Summary Data lakes have been gaining popularity alongside an increase in their sophistication and usability. Despite improvements in performance and data architecture they still require significant knowledge and experience to deploy and manage. No more scripts, just SQL. No more scripts, just SQL.

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Ascend.io

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the dynamic world of data, many professionals are still fixated on traditional patterns of data warehousing and ETL, even while their organizations are migrating to the cloud and adopting cloud-native data services. Modern platforms like Redshift , Snowflake , and BigQuery have elevated the data warehouse model.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

The data mesh design pattern breaks giant, monolithic enterprise data architectures into subsystems or domains, each managed by a dedicated team. The past decades of enterprise data platform architectures can be summarized in 69 words. Introduction to Data Mesh. The problem is not “you.”

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Cloudera

MARCH 17, 2023

As the use of ChatGPT becomes more prevalent, I frequently encounter customers and data users citing ChatGPT’s responses in their discussions. I love the enthusiasm surrounding ChatGPT and the eagerness to learn about modern data architectures such as data lakehouses, data meshes, and data fabrics.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Modern data platforms deliver an elastic, flexible, and cost-effective environment for analytic applications by leveraging a hybrid, multi-cloud architecture to support data fabric, data mesh, data lakehouse and, most recently, data observability. Luke: What is a modern data platform?

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Knowledge Hut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Microsoft Certified Data Engineer is in charge of designing the entire architecture of the data flow while taking the needs of the business into account. To provide end users with a variety of ready-made models, Azure Data engineers collaborate with Azure AI services built on top of Azure Cognitive Services APIs.

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The Modern Data Company

MARCH 23, 2023

However, to unlock the maximum power of corporate data, it is necessary to mix data from different systems and allow each data source to enhance the others. Various architectures, from data warehouses to data lakes, have attempted to help solve this problem over the years.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 10, 2023

But when the company started to experience rapid growth, it noticed performance issues with its data architecture. “ We had a very big data lake consisting of hundreds of different data sources, and the performance wasn’t good,” said Harm Bodewes, Head of Analytics at Bynder. “We

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Combining and analyzing both structured and unstructured data is a whole new challenge to come to grips with, let alone doing so across different infrastructures. Both obstacles can be overcome using modern data architectures, specifically data fabric and data lakehouse. Unified data fabric.

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 31, 2023

Data pipelines can handle both batch and streaming data, and at a high-level, the methods for measuring data quality for either type of asset are much the same. We’ll take a closer look at variables that can impact your data next. What is a decentralized data architecture?

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Cloudera

AUGUST 9, 2022

Data platforms are no longer skunkworks projects or science experiments. As customers import their mainframe and legacy data warehouse workloads, there is an expectation on the platform that it can meet, if not exceed, the resilience of the prior system and its associated dependencies.

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Knowledge Hut

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Microsoft Azure's Azure Synapse, formerly known as Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is a complete analytics offering. Designed to tackle the challenges of modern data management and analytics, Azure Synapse brings together the worlds of big data and data warehousing into a unified and seamlessly integrated platform.

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AltexSoft

MARCH 30, 2023

It combines the best elements of a data warehouse, a centralized repository for structured data, and a data lake used to host large amounts of raw data. The relatively new storage architecture powering Databricks is called a data lakehouse. Databricks lakehouse platform architecture.

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