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How to learn data engineering

Christophe Blefari

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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Data Engineering Weekly #168

Data Engineering Weekly

link] RevenueCat: How we solved RevenueCat’s biggest challenges on data ingestion into Snowflake A common design feature of modern data lakes and warehouses is that Inserts and deletes are fast, but the cost of scattered updates grows linearly with the table size. Counting is the hardest problem in data engineering.

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Data Engineering Zoomcamp – Data Ingestion (Week 2)

Hepta Analytics

DE Zoomcamp 2.2.1 – Introduction to Workflow Orchestration Following last weeks blog , we move to data ingestion. We already had a script that downloaded a csv file, processed the data and pushed the data to postgres database. This week, we got to think about our data ingestion design.

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Data Ingestion: 7 Challenges and 4 Best Practices

Monte Carlo

Data ingestion is the process of collecting data from various sources and moving it to your data warehouse or lake for processing and analysis. It is the first step in modern data management workflows. Table of Contents What is Data Ingestion? Decision making would be slower and less accurate.

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What Are the Best Data Modeling Methodologies & Processes for My Data Lake?

phData: Data Engineering

With the amount of data companies are using growing to unprecedented levels, organizations are grappling with the challenge of efficiently managing and deriving insights from these vast volumes of structured and unstructured data. What is a Data Lake? Consistency of data throughout the data lake.

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Data Engineering Weekly #164

Data Engineering Weekly

Dive into Spyne's experience with: - Their search for query acceleration with pre-aggregations and caching - Developing new functionality with Open AI - Optimizing query cost with their data warehouse [link] Suresh Hasuni: Cost Optimization Strategies for Scalable Data Lakehouse Cost is the major concern as the adoption of data lakes increases.

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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

AltexSoft

In 2010, a transformative concept took root in the realm of data storage and analytics — a data lake. The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data. What is a data lake?