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Streaming Data from the Universe with Apache Kafka

Confluent

Astronomers need to be able to collect, process, characterize, and distribute data on these objects in near real time, especially for time-sensitive events. The data from these detections are then serialized into Avro binary format. Some phenomena, like supernova “shock breakouts,” may only last on the order of minutes.

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Mastering Healthcare Data Pipelines: A Comprehensive Guide from Biome Analytics

Ascend.io

Split transform components if transformations significantly change the data schema. Future Outlook In the vast and complex world of data, building and managing scalable healthcare data pipelines is an imperative skill for all data engineering professionals.

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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2023

ProjectPro

show(truncate=False) #Drop duplicates on selected columns dropDisDF = df.dropDuplicates(["department","salary"]) print("Distinct count of department salary : "+str(dropDisDF.count())) dropDisDF.show(truncate=False) } Get FREE Access to Data Analytics Example Codes for Data Cleaning, Data Munging, and Data Visualization Q6.

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Schema Validation with Confluent 5.4-preview

Confluent

This gives operators a centralized location to enforce data format correctness within Confluent Platform. Enforcing data correctness on write is the first step towards enabling centralized policy enforcement and data governance within your event streaming platform. Why centralized data governance is important.

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Top 100 Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers 2023

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Hadoop vs RDBMS Criteria Hadoop RDBMS Datatypes Processes semi-structured and unstructured data. Processes structured data. Schema Schema on Read Schema on Write Best Fit for Applications Data discovery and Massive Storage/Processing of Unstructured data. are all examples of unstructured data.

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