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Modern Data Engineering

Towards Data Science

Platform Specific Tools and Advanced Techniques Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash The modern data ecosystem keeps evolving and new data tools emerge now and then. In this article, I want to talk about crucial things that affect data engineers. What is it? If you know a bit of Python it would be a trivial task.

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AWS Glue-Unleashing the Power of Serverless ETL Effortlessly

ProjectPro

Another leading European company, Claranet, has adopted Glue to migrate their data load from their existing on-premise solution to the cloud. The popular data integration tool, AWS Glue, enables data analytics users to quickly acquire, analyze, migrate, and integrate data from multiple sources. How Does AWS Glue Work?

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Top Data Catalog Tools

Monte Carlo

A data catalog is a constantly updated inventory of the universe of data assets within an organization. It uses metadata to create a picture of the data, as well as the relationships between data assets of diverse sources, and the processing that takes place as data moves through systems.

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Monte Carlo + Databricks Doubles Mutual Customer Count—and We’re Just Getting Started

Monte Carlo

After launching our partnership with Databricks last year, Monte Carlo has aggressively expanded our native Databricks and Apache Spark™ integrations to extend data observability into the Delta Lake and Unity Catalog, and in the process, drive even more value for Databricks customers.

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Monte Carlo Announces Delta Lake, Unity Catalog Integrations To Bring End-to-End Data Observability to Databricks

Monte Carlo

Traditionally, data lakes held raw data in its native format and were known for their flexibility, speed, and open source ecosystem. By design, data was less structured with limited metadata and no ACID properties. Unity Catalog The Unity Catalog unifies metastores, catalogs, and metadata within Databricks.

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From Patchwork to Platform: The Rise of the Post-Modern Data Stack

Ascend.io

Picture a data engineering leader, like a captain at the helm of a ship, navigating the vast ocean of data. The modern data stack promised a vessel with cutting-edge navigation tools to sail smoothly through this ocean. What are the key characteristics of the post-modern data stack?

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Large Scale Ad Data Systems at Booking.com using the Public Cloud

Booking.com Engineering

BigQuery also offers native support for nested and repeated data schema[4][5]. We take advantage of this feature in our ad bidding systems, maintaining consistent data views from our Account Specialists’ spreadsheets, to our Data Scientists’ notebooks, to our bidding system’s in-memory data.

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