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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 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?

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5 Layers of Data Lakehouse Architecture Explained

Monte Carlo

Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake. Metadata layer 4. …ok, so maybe they don’t say that. But they should! Storage layer 3. API layer 5.

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Data Lakehouse Architecture Explained: 5 Layers

Monte Carlo

Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake. Metadata layer 4. …ok, so maybe they don’t say that. But they should! Storage layer 3. API layer 5.

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Toward a Data Mesh (part 2) : Architecture & Technologies

François Nguyen

TL;DR After setting up and organizing the teams, we are describing 4 topics to make data mesh a reality. With this 3rd platform generation, you have more real time data analytics and a cost reduction because it is easier to manage this infrastructure in the cloud thanks to managed services. What you have to code is this workflow !

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97 things every data engineer should know

Grouparoo

This provided a nice overview of the breadth of topics that are relevant to data engineering including data warehouses/lakes, pipelines, metadata, security, compliance, quality, and working with other teams. For example, grouping the ones about metadata, discoverability, and column naming might have made a lot of sense.

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Data Engineering Glossary

Silectis

Data Architecture Data architecture is a composition of models, rules, and standards for all data systems and interactions between them. Data Catalog An organized inventory of data assets relying on metadata to help with data management.