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

Booking.com Engineering

From data ingestion, data science, to our ad bidding[2], GCP is an accelerant in our development cycle, sometimes reducing time-to-market from months to weeks. Data Ingestion and Analytics at Scale Ingestion of performance data, whether generated by a search provider or internally, is a key input for our algorithms.

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A Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Solution in CDP Public Cloud – Part1

Cloudera

Today’s customers have a growing need for a faster end to end data ingestion to meet the expected speed of insights and overall business demand. This ‘need for speed’ drives a rethink on building a more modern data warehouse solution, one that balances speed with platform cost management, performance, and reliability.

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AWS Glue-Unleashing the Power of Serverless ETL Effortlessly

ProjectPro

When Glue receives a trigger, it collects the data, transforms it using code that Glue generates automatically, and then loads it into Amazon S3 or Amazon Redshift. Then, Glue writes the job's metadata into the embedded AWS Glue Data Catalog. You can produce code, discover the data schema, and modify it.

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Implementing the Netflix Media Database

Netflix Tech

A fundamental requirement for any lasting data system is that it should scale along with the growth of the business applications it wishes to serve. NMDB is built to be a highly scalable, multi-tenant, media metadata system that can serve a high volume of write/read throughput as well as support near real-time queries.

Media 94
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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2023

ProjectPro

The StructType and StructField classes in PySpark are used to define the schema to the DataFrame and create complex columns such as nested struct, array, and map columns. StructType is a collection of StructField objects that determines column name, column data type, field nullability, and metadata. appName('ProjectPro').getOrCreate()

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

Ascend.io

In our case, data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, reverse ETL, and observability. This is the modern data stack as we know it today. The modern data stack has become disjointed and complex, slowing data engineering’s productivity and limiting their ability to provide value to the business.

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100+ Big Data Interview Questions and Answers 2023

ProjectPro

There are three steps involved in the deployment of a big data model: Data Ingestion: This is the first step in deploying a big data model - Data ingestion, i.e., extracting data from multiple data sources. NameNode is often given a large space to contain metadata for large-scale files.