Knowledge Hut

MARCH 13, 2024

Wondering what is a big data engineer? As the name suggests, Big Data is associated with ‘big’ data, which hints at something big in the context of data. Big data forms one of the pillars of data science. Who Is a Big Data Engineer?

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 23, 2024

Data handling became tedious only after huge amounts of it started to accumulate. For example, in 1880, the US Census Bureau needed to handle the 1880 Census data. They realized that compiling this data and converting it into information would take over 10 years without an efficient system.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Introduction HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is not a traditional database but a distributed file system designed to store and process big data. It provides high-throughput access to data and is optimized for […] The post A Dive into the Basics of Big Data Storage with HDFS appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 23, 2024

With the advent of technology and the arrival of modern communications systems, computer science professionals worldwide realized big data size and value. As big data evolves and unravels more technology secrets, it might help users achieve ambitious targets. Top 10 Disadvantages of Big Data 1.

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InData Labs

AUGUST 24, 2023

The world is generating an unprecedented amount of data every second. From online transactions and social media interactions to sensor readings and scientific research, the sheer volume, velocity, and variety of data have given rise to the concept of “Big data.”

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Confessions of a Data Guy

APRIL 28, 2024

The funny thing is, at the time, and today, it […] The post Why did Golang lose to Rust for Data Engineering? appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy. When I first wrote a little Golang (~2+ years ago) I was just trying to see what the hype was all about.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Where do you start in a field as vast as big data? We explore this and talk about the most common tools in big data. Which tools and techniques to use?

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 20, 2024

Learn data engineering, all the references ( credits ) This is a special edition of the Data News. But right now I'm in holidays finishing a hiking week in Corsica 🥾 So I wrote this special edition about: how to learn data engineering in 2024. Who are the data engineers?

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LinkedIn Engineering

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Co-authors: Arjun Mohnot , Jenchang Ho , Anthony Quigley , Xing Lin , Anil Alluri , Michael Kuchenbecker LinkedIn operates one of the world’s largest Apache Hadoop big data clusters. Historically, deploying code changes to Hadoop big data clusters has been complex.

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Seattle Data Guy

APRIL 19, 2024

How data is structured, managed and processed will continue to grow in importance as the demand for AI and machine learning increase. It’s unavoidable that as businesses demand that their data teams implement AI, they will also realize that data engineers are a crucial piece of the data pipeline.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MAY 12, 2024

This year, we added some additional features to bring the data community together. Gloss Genius: How We Migrated From dbt Cloud and Scaled Our Data Development Gloss Genius describes its migration journey from dbt cloud to Airflow + custom Github actions. At scale, it becomes impossible to enrich the data assets manually.

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Jesse Anderson

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They were the first companies to commercialize open source big data technologies and pushed the marketing and commercialization of Hadoop. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. Apache Spark came in 2009 and gave a unified batch and streaming engine.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 17, 2024

Parquet vs ORC vs Avro vs Delta Lake Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash The big data world is full of various storage systems, heavily influenced by different file formats. These are key in nearly all data pipelines, allowing for efficient data storage and easier querying and information extraction.

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 17, 2023

With all the recent data events I have put together I inevitably run into new data engineers who are either finishing up college or looking to transition into a data engineer or data scientist position. In fact I have talked to several newly graduated engineers who are struggling to find work.

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Lyft Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2023

High-quality data is necessary for the success of every data-driven company. It is now the norm for tech companies to have a well-developed data platform. This makes it easy for engineers to generate, transform, store, and analyze data at the petabyte scale. What and Where is Data Quality?

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Uber Engineering

MARCH 21, 2024

Discover real-time query analytics and governance with DataCentral: Uber’s big data observability powerhouse, tackling millions of queries in petabyte-scale environments.

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Jesse Anderson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There has been quite a bit of writing covering GPT and LLMs from data science and business perspectives. I haven’t seen much from the data engineering side. Let me share my perspective, having been in data and AI for a while and using LLMs before they became popular. How can we use LLMs in data engineering?

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Confluent

MARCH 16, 2023

Big data was a core term for any company doing data engineering and analytics. Learn how big data has changed and evolved, leading to the fundamental cloud services of today.

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Team Data Science

MAY 20, 2020

Should companies go full blowing big data/data science platform right away? Are you in the Proof-of-Concept phase, where you are just working with offline data, where you are proving your concepts? To answer the question at the beginning: No, I wouldn't go for a big data solution. What do you think about it?

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Knowledge Hut

OCTOBER 5, 2023

When it comes to cloud computing and big data, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has emerged as a leading name. As businesses’ reliance on cloud and big data increases, so does the demand for professionals who have the necessary skills and knowledge in AWS. Who is AWS Big Data Specialist?

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 17, 2023

What is the state of data infra? Are data engineers all learning Rust? Our team is putting together an all day event focused on helping answer some… Read more The post What Is The State Of Data Engineering And Infrastructure In 2023 appeared first on Seattle Data Guy. Is everyone switching to DuckDB?

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This post is for those poor souls that need to scan terabytes of data in BigQuery to calculate some counts, sums, or rolling totals over huge event data on a daily or even at a higher frequency basis. In this post, I will go over a technique for enabling a cheap data injestion and cheap data consumption for “big data”.

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Seattle Data Guy

MAY 20, 2023

Starting new data engineering projects can be challenging. Data engineers can get stuck on finding the right data for their data engineering project or picking the right tools.

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Data Engineering Weekly

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

RudderStack is the Warehouse Native CDP, built to help data teams deliver value across the entire data activation lifecycle, from collection to unification and activation. Our hope is only with the amazing community of data practitioners who constantly support us. We are so over the Big Data Era to Modern Data Stack.

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Emeritus

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As you read this, people across the world are texting, posting on social media, and searching on Google, adding to the growing volume of big data. And as big data’s quantity increases so does its significance for companies. Big data has become a pivotal resource to generate information and make insightful decisions.

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Seattle Data Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Apache Airflow is a very popular tool that data engineers rely on. Why do data engineers like Airflow? What are… Read more The post What Is Apache Airflow – Data Engineering Consulting appeared first on Seattle Data Guy. Also, what does Apache Airflow event do? What is a DAG?

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 3, 2024

RudderStack is the Warehouse Native CDP, built to help data teams deliver value across the entire data activation lifecycle, from collection to unification and activation. Editor’s Note: Chennai, India Meetup - March-08 Update We are thankful to Ideas2IT to host our first Data Hero’s meetup.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 21, 2019

Summary Building internal expertise around big data in a large organization is a major competitive advantage. In this episode Jesper Søgaard and Keld Antonsen share the story of starting and growing the big data group at LEGO. My understanding is that the big data group at LEGO is a fairly recent development.

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Knowledge Hut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It is a well-known fact that we inhabit a data-rich world. Businesses are generating, capturing, and storing vast amounts of data at an enormous scale. This influx of data is handled by robust big data systems which are capable of processing, storing, and querying data at scale.

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ProjectPro

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Big Data Engineer is one of the most popular job profiles in the data industry. This blog on Big Data Engineer salary gives you a clear picture of the salary range according to skills, countries, industries, job titles, etc. Big Data gets over 1.2 What does a big data engineer do?

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 23, 2024

Software engineering is a rapidly growing field with vast career opportunities. With emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and blockchain, the demand for software engineers has skyrocketed. These levels consist of junior engineer, engineer, and senior engineer.

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Team Data Science

JANUARY 8, 2021

Big Data has become the dominant innovation in all high-performing companies. Notable businesses today focus their decision-making capabilities on knowledge gained from the study of big data. Big Data gives you an advantage in competition as true for businesses as it is for professionals working in the area of analytics.

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Knowledge Hut

JUNE 26, 2023

Welcome to the world of data engineering, where the power of big data unfolds. If you're aspiring to be a data engineer and seeking to showcase your skills or gain hands-on experience, you've landed in the right spot. What are Data Engineering Projects?

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the present-day world, almost all industries are generating humongous amounts of data, which are highly crucial for the future decisions that an organization has to make. This massive amount of data is referred to as “big data,” which comprises large amounts of data, including structured and unstructured data that has to be processed.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: Chennai Meetup Wrap-Up & Preparation work started for DEWCon I am so grateful for the enthusiastic participants who made our Chennai Data Heroes- Community for Data Folks meetup vibrant! Big thanks to our insightful speakers, Hareshkumar Selvakumar - Talks about his work on Data Products for PayPal.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

There are probably few things in life that will strike more fear and tumult in the heart of the Data Engineer than historical loads. How could it possibly be, just take a bunch of data stored somewhere and shove it into a table. […] The post Introduction to Historical Loads – for Data Engineers.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Summary Managing big data projects at scale is a perennial problem, with a wide variety of solutions that have evolved over the past 20 years. Designed as a fully integrated platform to meet the needs of enterprise grade analytics it provides a solution for the full lifecycle of data at massive scale.

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