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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

Kevin, what drew you to data engineering? I stumbled into data engineering rather than making an intentional career move into the field. I started my career as an application developer with basic familiarity with SQL. I was later hired into my first purely data gig where I was able to deepen my knowledge of big data.

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Operational Database Security – Part 1

Cloudera

Apache Ranger provides the centralized framework to define, administer, and manage security policies consistently across the big data ecosystem. Several of Cloudera’s query engines have variable binding and query compilation making the code less vulnerable to user input and preventing SQL injections.

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From Hive Tables to Iceberg Tables: Hassle-Free

Cloudera

Introduction For more than a decade now, the Hive table format has been a ubiquitous presence in the big data ecosystem, managing petabytes of data with remarkable efficiency and scale. You can run basic sanity checks on the data to see if the newly created table is sound.

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Top 20+ Big Data Certifications and Courses in 2023

Knowledge Hut

The exam tests the use of Cloudera products such as Cloudera Data Visualization, Cloudera Machine Learning, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, Cloudera Data Warehouses well as SQL, Apache Nifi, Apache Hive and other open source technologies. From my experience it is a continuous process.

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Taking A Tour Of The Google Cloud Platform For Data And Analytics

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Google pioneered an impressive number of the architectural underpinnings of the broader big data ecosystem. In this episode Lak Lakshmanan enumerates the variety of services that are available for building your various data processing and analytical systems. No more scripts, just SQL.

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Top 7 Data Engineering Career Opportunities in 2024

Knowledge Hut

The primary process comprises gathering data from multiple sources, storing it in a database to handle vast quantities of information, cleaning it for further use and presenting it in a comprehensible manner. Data engineering involves a lot of technical skills like Python, Java, and SQL (Structured Query Language).

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Best Data Processing Frameworks That You Must Know

Knowledge Hut

Two restricted forms of shared variables are used: broadcast variables, which reference read-only data that has to be available for all the nodes, and accumulators, which can be used to program reductions. Other elements included in Spark Core are: Spark SQL , which provides domain-specific language used to manipulate DataFrames.