Knowledge Hut

MARCH 7, 2024

The greatest data processing challenge of 2024 is the lack of qualified data scientists with the skill set and expertise to handle this gigantic volume of data. Inability to process large volumes of data Out of the 2.5 quintillion data produced, only 60 percent workers spend days on it to make sense of it.

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 28, 2023

If you don’t like change, data engineering is not for you. The most prominent, recent examples are Snowflake and Databricks disrupting the concept of the database and ushering in the modern data stack era. As part of this movement, Fivetran and dbt fundamentally altered the data pipeline from ETL to ELT.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 15, 2023

Data Engineering Weekly Is Brought to You by RudderStack RudderStack provides data pipelines that make it easy to collect data from every application, website, and SaaS platform, then activate it in your warehouse and business tools. 2023 predictions from the panel are; Unified metadata becomes kingmaker.

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Hepta Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This week, we got to think about our data ingestion design. We looked at the following: How do we ingest – ETL vs ELT Where do we store the data – Data lake vs data warehouse Which tool to we use to ingest – cronjob vs workflow engine NOTE : This weeks task requires good internet speed and good compute.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 11, 2021

“Data Lake vs Data Warehouse = Load First, Think Later vs Think First, Load Later” The terms data lake and data warehouse are frequently stumbled upon when it comes to storing large volumes of data. Data Warehouse Architecture What is a Data lake?

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Knowledge Hut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The contemporary world experiences a huge growth in cloud implementations, consequently leading to a rise in demand for data engineers and IT professionals who are well-equipped with a wide range of application and process expertise. Data Engineer certification will aid in scaling up you knowledge and learning of data engineering.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Eventing In many cases, the data platform itself needs to be responsible for, or at the very least inform, the generation of first party data. I break down eventing into two categories: Change Data Capture  — CDC The basic gist of CDC is using your database’s CRUD commands as a stream of data itself.

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Maxime Beauchemin

JANUARY 7, 2018

In this post, we’ll explore how applying the functional programming paradigm to data engineering can bring a lot of clarity to the process. This post distills fragments of wisdom accumulated while working at Yahoo, Facebook, Airbnb and Lyft, with the perspective of well over a decade of data warehousing and data engineering experience.

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Ascend.io

AUGUST 31, 2023

Secondly , the rise of data lakes that catalyzed the transition from ELT to ELT and paved the way for niche paradigms such as Reverse ETL and Zero-ETL. Still, these methods have been overshadowed by EtLT — the predominant approach reshaping today’s data landscape.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Over the past several years, data warehouses have evolved dramatically, but that doesn’t mean the fundamentals underpinning sound data architecture needs to be thrown out the window. What is a Data Vault model? The data vault paradigm addresses the desire to overlay organization on top of semi-permanent raw data storage.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Databricks announced that Delta tables metadata will also be compatible with the Iceberg format, and Snowflake has also been moving aggressively to integrate with Iceberg. It is designed to be easily queryable with SQL even for large analytic tables (we’re talking petabytes of data). How Apache Iceberg tables structure metadata.

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AltexSoft

AUGUST 29, 2023

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.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The solution to discoverability and tracking of data lineage is to incorporate a metadata repository into your data platform. The metadata repository serves as a data catalog and a means of reporting on the health and status of your datasets when it is properly integrated into the rest of your tools.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 24, 2023

Traditionally, after being stored in a data lake, raw data was then often moved to various destinations like a data warehouse for further processing, analysis, and consumption. Databricks Data Catalog and AWS Lake Formation are examples in this vein. See our post: Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses.

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Monte Carlo

JULY 25, 2023

What is data curation? Data curation is the process of transforming and enriching larger amounts of raw data into smaller, more widely accessible subsets of data that provide additional value to the organization or the intended use case. It would also make the data engineering team a bottleneck.

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ProjectPro

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

ETL is a critical component of success for most data engineering teams, and with teams harnessing it with the power of AWS, the stakes are higher than ever. Data Engineers and Data Scientists require efficient methods for managing large databases, which is why centralized data warehouses are in high demand.

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Snowflake

APRIL 5, 2023

Two different data modeling approaches—dimensional data modeling and Data Vault—each have their own pros and cons. Modernizing a data warehouse with Snowflake Data Cloud is a smart investment that can provide significant benefits to businesses of all sizes, today more than ever as data models become ever more complex.

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ProjectPro

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But this data is not that easy to manage since a lot of the data that we produce today is unstructured. In fact, 95% of organizations acknowledge the need to manage unstructured raw data since it is challenging and expensive to manage and analyze, which makes it a major concern for most businesses. How Does AWS Glue Work?

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AltexSoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The pun being obvious, there’s more to that than just a new term: Data lakehouses combine the best features of both data lakes and data warehouses and this post will explain this all. What is a data lakehouse? Data warehouse vs data lake vs data lakehouse: What’s the difference.

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DoorDash Engineering

APRIL 12, 2023

Standardized metric definitions also enable different personas such as Data Scientists, Engineers and Product Managers to more easily use the same metric definitions and ensure that they are all measuring metrics in a consistent and accurate way. Experimentation is one of the primary use cases that relies on metrics.

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 28, 2022

Over the past several years, cloud data lakes like Databricks have gotten so powerful (and popular) that according to Mordor Intelligence , the data lake market is expected to grow from $3.74 Traditionally, data lakes held raw data in its native format and were known for their flexibility, speed, and open source ecosystem.

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bridging the Gap: How ‘Data in Place’ and ‘Data in Use’ Define Complete Data Observability In a world where 97% of data engineers report burnout and crisis mode seems to be the default setting for data teams, a Zen-like calm feels like an unattainable dream.

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Databand.ai

JULY 28, 2022

All of these are essential at a time when data plays such an integral role in business outcomes and decision-making. Those tasks are saving the extracted data in the data lake (or warehouse or lakehouse). Other tasks, probably SQL jobs orchestrated with DBT, are running transformation on the loaded data.

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Ascend.io

APRIL 7, 2023

With the monolithic architectures most organizations have today, business users are stuck, constantly waiting for new data pipelines to be built or amended based on their requests. Data engineers aren’t huge fans of this paradigm either. The overarching philosophy of a data mesh is that it’s designed with data products in mind.

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AltexSoft

MARCH 14, 2023

As the volume and complexity of data continue to grow, organizations seek faster, more efficient, and cost-effective ways to manage and analyze data. In recent years, cloud-based data warehouses have revolutionized data processing with their advanced massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities and SQL support.

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ProjectPro

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

According to a survey, big data engineering job interviews increased by 40% in 2020 compared to only a 10% rise in Data science job interviews. Table of Contents Big Data Engineer - The Market Demand Who is a Big Data Engineer? Most of these are performed by Data Engineers.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

While cloud-native, point-solution data warehouse services may serve your immediate business needs, there are dangers to the corporation as a whole when you do your own IT this way. Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) is here to save the day! CDW is an integrated data warehouse service within Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 4, 2024

Over the last two years, data contracts have become one of most talked about (and hotly debated ) topics in data engineering. And like any new — and admittedly abstract — concept, there are several different definitions of data contracts floating around on LinkedIn , Medium , and Substack. Where do I log it?

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 19, 2023

The data platform manages the collection, normalization, transformation, and application of data for a given data product—from business insights and dashboards to ML and AI engineering. So, with all that ambiguity, where’s a data engineer to start?Even Frequently Asked Questions What is a data platform?

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 24, 2021

Nevertheless, that is not the only job in the data world. Data professionals who work with raw data like data engineers, data analysts, machine learning scientists , and machine learning engineers also play a crucial role in any data science project.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash This tutorial guides you through an analytics use case, analyzing semi-structured data with Spark SQL. We’ll start with the data engineering process, pulling data from an API and finally loading the transformed data into a data lake (represented by MinIO ).

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AltexSoft

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Whether your goal is data analytics or machine learning , success relies on what data pipelines you build and how you do it. But even for experienced data engineers, designing a new data pipeline is a unique journey each time. Data engineering in 14 minutes. The ELT workflow. Scalability.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 1, 2021

Here’s where data catalogs fall short and how data discovery platforms and tools can help ensure your data lake doesn’t turn into a data swamp. is whether to choose a data warehouse or lake to power storage and compute for their analytics. Data discovery tools and platforms can help.

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Rockset

MAY 8, 2023

In this blog, we capture engineering stories from 5 early adopters of vector search- Pinterest, Spotify, eBay, Airbnb and Doordash- who have integrated AI into their applications. In the next sections, we’ll summarize 5 engineering blogs on vector search and highlight key implementation considerations.

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, data may be extracted from multiple sources, reorganized, and joined at different times before ultimately being served to its final destination. Why is data pipeline architecture important? Data then, and even today for some organizations, was primarily hosted in on-premises databases with non-scalable storage.

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ProjectPro

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Now that we have understood how much significant role data plays, it opens the way to a set of more questions like How do we acquire or extract raw data from the source? How do we transform this data to get valuable insights from it? Where do we finally store or load the transformed data?

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AltexSoft

MARCH 30, 2023

What is Databricks Databricks is an analytics platform with a unified set of tools for data engineering, data management , data science, and machine learning. It combines the best elements of a data warehouse, a centralized repository for structured data, and a data lake used to host large amounts of raw data.

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