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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? Let us now understand the basic responsibilities of a Data engineer.

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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.

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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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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

MapReduce performs batch processing only and doesn’t fit time-sensitive data or real-time analytics jobs. Data engineers who previously worked only with relational database management systems and SQL queries need training to take advantage of Hadoop. Data storage options. Cassandra excels at streaming data analysis.