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What is Real-time Data Ingestion? Use cases, Tools, Infrastructure

Knowledge Hut

Conventional batch processing techniques seem incomplete in fulfilling the demand of driving the commercial environment. This is where real-time data ingestion comes into the picture. Data is collected from various sources such as social media feeds, website interactions, log files and processing.

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End-to-End Data Pipelines: Hitting Home Runs in Data Strategy

Ascend.io

A star-studded baseball team is analogous to an optimized “end-to-end data pipeline” — both require strategy, precision, and skill to achieve success. Just as every play and position in baseball is key to a win, each component of a data pipeline is integral to effective data management.

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Creating Value With a Data-Centric Culture: Essential Capabilities to Treat Data as a Product

Ascend.io

Treating data as a product is more than a concept; it’s a paradigm shift that can significantly elevate the value that business intelligence and data-centric decision-making have on the business. Data pipelines Data integrity Data lineage Data stewardship Data catalog Data product costing Let’s review each one in detail.

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Azure Data Engineer vs Azure DevOps: Top 8 Differences

Knowledge Hut

An Azure Data Engineer is a professional responsible for designing, implementing, and managing data solutions using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. They work with various Azure services and tools to build scalable, efficient, and reliable data pipelines, data storage solutions, and data processing systems.

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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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Azure Synapse vs Databricks: 2023 Comparison Guide

Knowledge Hut

Organisations are constantly looking for robust and effective platforms to manage and derive value from their data in the constantly changing landscape of data analytics and processing. These platforms provide strong capabilities for data processing, storage, and analytics, enabling companies to fully use their data assets.

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The Rise of the Data Engineer

Maxime Beauchemin

The fact that ETL tools evolved to expose graphical interfaces seems like a detour in the history of data processing, and would certainly make for an interesting blog post of its own. Sure, there’s a need to abstract the complexity of data processing, computation and storage.