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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

Data Engineering is typically a software engineering role that focuses deeply on data – namely, data workflows, data pipelines, and the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. However, as we progressed, data became complicated, more unstructured, or, in most cases, semi-structured.

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Data Pipeline vs. ETL: Which Delivers More Value?

Ascend.io

In the modern world of data engineering, two concepts often find themselves in a semantic tug-of-war: data pipeline and ETL. Fast forward to the present day, and we now have data pipelines. Data Ingestion Data ingestion is the first step of both ETL and data pipelines.

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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

The keyword here is distributed since the data quantities in question are too large to be accommodated and analyzed by a single computer. The framework provides a way to divide a huge data collection into smaller chunks and shove them across interconnected computers or nodes that make up a Hadoop cluster. Spark limitations.