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Data Engineering Weekly #105

Data Engineering Weekly

Editor’s Note: The current state of the Data Catalog The results are out for our poll on the current state of the Data Catalogs. The highlights are that 59% of folks think data catalogs are sometimes helpful. We saw in the Data Catalog poll how far it has to go to be helpful and active within a data workflow.

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Azure Data Engineer Job Description [Roles and Responsibilities]

Knowledge Hut

They are in charge of designing data storage systems that scale, perform, and are economical enough to satisfy the organization's requirements. They guarantee that the data is efficiently cleaned, converted, and loaded. Work together with data scientists and analysts to understand the needs for data and create effective data workflows.

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Audit_helper in dbt: Bringing data auditing to a higher level

dbt Developer Hub

While we can surely rely on that overview to validate the final refactored model with its legacy counterpart, it can be less useful while we are in the middle of the process of rebuilding a data workflow, where we need to track down which are exactly the columns that are causing incompatibility issues and what is wrong with them.

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DataOps Tools: Key Capabilities & 5 Tools You Must Know About

Databand.ai

Poor data quality can lead to incorrect or misleading insights, which can have significant consequences for an organization. DataOps tools help ensure data quality by providing features like data profiling, data validation, and data cleansing.

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How we reduced a 6-hour runtime in Alteryx to 9 minutes in dbt

dbt Developer Hub

One example of a popular drag-and-drop transformation tool is Alteryx which allows business analysts to transform data by dragging and dropping operators in a canvas. In this sense, dbt may be a more suitable solution to building resilient and modular data pipelines due to its focus on data modeling.

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Data Migration Risks and the Checklist You Need to Avoid Them

Monte Carlo

Sure, terabytes or even petabytes of data are involved, but generally it’s not the size of the data but everything surrounding the data–workflows, access permissions, layers of dependencies–that pose data migration risks. Here are some tips for mitigating some of the risks of data migration.

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The DataOps Vendor Landscape, 2021

DataKitchen

Piperr.io — Pre-built data pipelines across enterprise stakeholders, from IT to analytics, tech, data science and LoBs. Prefect Technologies — Open-source data engineering platform that builds, tests, and runs data workflows. Genie — Distributed big data orchestration service by Netflix.