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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.

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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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Accenture’s Smart Data Transition Toolkit Now Available for Cloudera Data Platform

Cloudera

Running on CDW is fully integrated with streaming, data engineering, and machine learning analytics. It has a consistent framework that secures and provides governance for all data and metadata on private clouds, multiple public clouds, or hybrid clouds. Smart DwH Mover helps in accelerating data warehouse migration.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

AltexSoft

It allows data scientists to analyze large datasets and interactively run jobs on them from the R shell. Big data processing. Distributed: RDDs are distributed across the network, enabling them to be processed in parallel. The details page shows the event timeline. Here are some of the possible use cases.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

Event-first thinking enables us to build a new atomic unit: the event. Four pillars of event streaming. Pillar 1 – Business function: Payment processing pipeline. Pillar 4 – Operational plane: Event logging, DLQs and automation. Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture.

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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

Hadoop and Spark are the two most popular platforms for Big Data processing. They both enable you to deal with huge collections of data no matter its format — from Excel tables to user feedback on websites to images and video files. Obviously, Big Data processing involves hundreds of computing units.

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What is a Data Engineer?

Dataquest

But what about data engineers? A data scientist is only as good as the data they have access to. Most companies store their data in variety of formats across databases and text files. This is where data engineers come in — they build pipelines that transform that data into formats that data scientists can use.