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97 things every data engineer should know

Grouparoo

This provided a nice overview of the breadth of topics that are relevant to data engineering including data warehouses/lakes, pipelines, metadata, security, compliance, quality, and working with other teams. For example, grouping the ones about metadata, discoverability, and column naming might have made a lot of sense.

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A Definitive Guide to Using BigQuery Efficiently

Towards Data Science

Like a dragon guarding its treasure, each byte stored and each query executed demands its share of gold coins. Join as we journey through the depths of cost optimization, where every byte is a precious coin. It is also possible to set a maximum for the bytes billed for your query. Photo by Konstantin Evdokimov on Unsplash ?

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AWS Solutions Architect Associate Cheat Sheet

Knowledge Hut

It is infinitely scalable, and individuals can upload files ranging from 0 bytes to 5 TB. In S3, data consists of the following components – key (name), value (data), version ID, metadata and access control lists. They are made for use as transactional databases and are suitable for storing structured and relational data.

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15 Essential Java Full Stack Developer Skills in 2024

Knowledge Hut

It allows the addition of metadata to the changes, which facilitates team members in pinpointing the changes introduced in the code, why it was made, and when and who made it. Using compiled languages like C and C++ and interpreted languages like JavaScript and Python, the java code is compiled into byte code to make a class file.

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Deploying Kafka Streams and KSQL with Gradle – Part 2: Managing KSQL Implementations

Confluent

In this way, registration queries are more like regular data definition language (DDL) statements in traditional relational databases. Rigid file naming standards that had built-in dependency metadata. zip Zip file size: 3593 bytes, number of entries: 9 drwxr-xr-x 2.0 6 objects dropped. 6 objects created.

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100+ Big Data Interview Questions and Answers 2023

ProjectPro

Big data operations require specialized tools and techniques since a relational database cannot manage such a large amount of data. NameNode is often given a large space to contain metadata for large-scale files. The metadata should come from a single file for optimal space use and economic benefit.

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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2023

ProjectPro

StructType is a collection of StructField objects that determines column name, column data type, field nullability, and metadata. To define the columns, PySpark offers the pyspark.sql.types import StructField class, which has the column name (String), column type (DataType), nullable column (Boolean), and metadata (MetaData).

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