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Level Up Your Data Platform With Active Metadata

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Metadata is the lifeblood of your data platform, providing information about what is happening in your systems. In order to level up their value a new trend of active metadata is being implemented, allowing use cases like keeping BI reports up to date, auto-scaling your warehouses, and automated data governance.

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Data Pipeline Observability: A Model For Data Engineers

Databand.ai

Data Pipeline Observability: A Model For Data Engineers Eitan Chazbani June 29, 2023 Data pipeline observability is your ability to monitor and understand the state of a data pipeline at any time. We believe the world’s data pipelines need better data observability.

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Improved Ascend for Databricks, New Lineage Visualization, and Better Incremental Data Ingestion

Ascend.io

We hope the real-time demonstrations of Ascend automating data pipelines were a real treat—a long with the special edition T-Shirt designed specifically for the show (picture of our founder and CEO rocking the t-shirt below). Instead, it is a Sankey diagram driven by the same dynamic metadata that runs the Ascend control plane.

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Data Pipeline Optimization: How to Reduce Costs with Ascend

Ascend.io

The costs of developing and running data pipelines are coming under increasing scrutiny because the bills for infrastructure and data engineering talent are piling up. For data teams, it is time to ask: “How can we have an impact on these runaway costs and still deliver unprecedented business value?”

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Collecting And Retaining Contextual Metadata For Powerful And Effective Data Discovery

Data Engineering Podcast

Data stacks are becoming more and more complex. This brings infinite possibilities for data pipelines to break and a host of other issues, severely deteriorating the quality of the data and causing teams to lose trust. Data stacks are becoming more and more complex. In fact, while only 3.5% In fact, while only 3.5%

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Data Pipeline Architecture Explained: 6 Diagrams and Best Practices

Monte Carlo

In this post, we will help you quickly level up your overall knowledge of data pipeline architecture by reviewing: Table of Contents What is data pipeline architecture? Why is data pipeline architecture important? What is data pipeline architecture? Why is data pipeline architecture important?

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What Is Data Pipeline Automation?

Ascend.io

These engineering functions are almost exclusively concerned with data pipelines, spanning ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observation — all the way to data product delivery to the business tools and downstream applications. Pipelines need to grow faster than the cost to run them.