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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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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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Snowflake Startup Challenge 2024: Announcing the 10 Semi-Finalists

Snowflake

The list of Top 10 semi-finalists is a perfect example: we have use cases for cybersecurity, gen AI, food safety, restaurant chain pricing, quantitative trading analytics, geospatial data, sales pipeline measurement, marketing tech and healthcare. Our sincere thanks go out to everyone who participated in this year’s competition.

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Centralize Your Data Processes With a DataOps Process Hub

DataKitchen

The typical pharmaceutical organization faces many challenges which slow down the data team: Raw, barely integrated data sets require engineers to perform manual , repetitive, error-prone work to create analyst-ready data sets. Cloud computing has made it much easier to integrate data sets, but that’s only the beginning.

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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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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

Data Engineering is typically a software engineering role that focuses deeply on data – namely, data workflows, data pipelines, and the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. What is the role of a Data Engineer? They are required to have deep knowledge of distributed systems and computer science.