Ascend.io

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rise of generative AI is changing more than just technology; it’s reshaping our professional landscapes — and yes, data engineering is directly experiencing the impact. How does AI recalibrate the workload and priorities of data teams? How can data engineers harness the power of AI?

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Pet Project for Data/Analytics Engineers: Explore Modern Data Stack Tools — dbt Core, Snowflake, Fivetran, GitHub Actions. This hands-on experience will allow you to develop an end-to-end data lifecycle, from extracting data from your Google Calendar to presenting it in a Snowflake analytics dashboard.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Project Engineering 73

Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Summary Managing a data warehouse can be challenging, especially when trying to maintain a common set of patterns. With 200Gbit private networking, scalable shared block storage, and a 40Gbit public network, you’ve got everything you need to run a fast, reliable, and bullet-proof data platform.

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Data Warehouse PostgreSQL AWS Programming Language 100

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Performance is one of the key, if not the most important deciding criterion, in choosing a Cloud Data Warehouse service. In today’s fast changing world, enterprises have to make data driven decisions quickly and for that they rely heavily on their data warehouse service. . Cloudera Data Warehouse vs HDInsight.

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Data Warehouse Cloud Storage Metadata Cloud 120

Monte Carlo

JANUARY 25, 2023

Over the past year, data contracts have taken the data world by storm as a novel approach to ensuring data quality at scale in production services. In the last couple of posts , I’ve focused on implementing data contracts in production services. Where to start implementing data contracts?

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Data Warehouse Data High Quality Data Metadata 52

Christophe Blefari

MARCH 1, 2023

dbt Core is an open-source framework that helps you organise data warehouse SQL transformation. dbt was born out of the analysis that more and more companies were switching from on-premise Hadoop data infrastructure to cloud data warehouses. This switch has been lead by modern data stack vision.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 13, 2022

Summary Data is useless if it isn’t being used, and you can’t use it if you don’t know where it is. Data catalogs were the first solution to this problem, but they are only helpful if you know what you are looking for. Data stacks are becoming more and more complex. Sifflet also offers a 2-week free trial.

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Maxime Beauchemin

JANUARY 20, 2017

I joined Facebook in 2011 as a business intelligence engineer. By the time I left in 2013, I was a data engineer. We were data engineers! Data Engineering? Data science as a discipline was going through its adolescence of self-affirming and defining itself. We were pioneers.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 16, 2022

The data warehouse is the foundation of the modern data stack, so it caught our attention when we saw Convoy head of data Chad Sanderson declare, “ the data warehouse is broken ” on LinkedIn. Treating data like an API. Immutable data warehouses have challenges too.

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Data Warehouse Architecture Data Government 52

Cloudera

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In this blog post, we compare Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Apache Hive-LLAP to EMR 6.0 (also powered by Apache Hive-LLAP) on Amazon using the TPC-DS 2.9 CDW is an analytic offering for Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Cloudera Data Warehouse vs EMR.

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Data Warehouse Metadata Datasets Data 109

Cloudera

JANUARY 15, 2021

Cloud data warehouses allow users to run analytic workloads with greater agility, better isolation and scale, and lower administrative overhead than ever before. The results demonstrate superior price performance of Cloudera Data Warehouse on the full set of 99 queries from the TPC-DS benchmark. Introduction. higher cost.

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Data Warehouse Cloud Consulting SQL 96

Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Summary Cloud data warehouses have unlocked a massive amount of innovation and investment in data applications, but they are still inherently limiting. Because of their complete ownership of your data they constrain the possibilities of what data you can store and how it can be used. We feel your pain.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JUNE 29, 2023

But hey, I met my friends after a long time and got my copy of “ Fundamentals of Data Engineering ” signed by Joe Reis & Matt Housely. If you’re starting data engineering, I highly recommend reading it. Snowflake is a DataLake Platform Snowflake is moving beyond a SQL data warehouse.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JULY 2, 2023

Data Engineering Weekly Is Brought to You by RudderStack RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork, and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles, so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team. So, let's shape the future of Data Engineering together.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Pipeline-centric 52

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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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Generalist 52

Data Engineering Weekly

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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. The highlights are that 59% of folks think data catalogs are sometimes helpful.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Data Ingestion 52

Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 19, 2022

Summary Data analysis is a valuable exercise that is often out of reach of non-technical users as a result of the complexity of data systems. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. Modern data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code.

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Metadata Unstructured Data MongoDB MySQL 130

Ascend.io

APRIL 22, 2024

At Ascend, we believe it’s time to rethink data engineering from the ground up. As the world of data continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, we are thrilled to announce the next revolutionary step in our journey – Project Inception. Read More: The State of Data Engineering in 2023: Does Your Data Program Stack Up?

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Summary Data engineering systems are complex and interconnected with myriad and often opaque chains of dependencies. In order to turn this into a tractable problem one approach is to define and enforce contracts between producers and consumers of data. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

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Systems Metadata Building MongoDB 100

Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Summary Building a well managed data ecosystem for your organization requires a holistic view of all of the producers, consumers, and processors of information. The team at Metaphor are building a fully connected metadata layer to provide both technical and social intelligence about your data. Missing data?

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Systems Building Metadata Data Warehouse 100

Lyft Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2023

High-quality data is necessary for the success of every data-driven company. It is now the norm for tech companies to have a well-developed data platform. This makes it easy for engineers to generate, transform, store, and analyze data at the petabyte scale. What and Where is Data Quality?

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Big Data Metadata Data Warehouse Data 84

Knowledge Hut

MARCH 7, 2024

The year 2024 saw some enthralling changes in volume and variety of data across businesses worldwide. The surge in data generation is only going to continue. Foresighted enterprises are the ones who will be able to leverage this data for maximum profitability through data processing and handling techniques.

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Big Data Bytes Data Governance Raw Data 98

Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Summary Business intelligence is the foremost application of data in organizations of all sizes. Zing Data is building a mobile native platform for business intelligence. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!

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Business Intelligence Metadata BI MongoDB 100

Grouparoo

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It was a fun experience and I think we made a good choice by picking 97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know. 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.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Pipeline-centric 52

Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 17, 2022

Summary There are extensive and valuable data sets that are available outside the bounds of your organization. Whether that data is public, paid, or scraped it requires investment and upkeep to acquire and integrate it with your systems. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 5, 2024

You know what they always say: data lakehouse architecture is like an onion. …ok, Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake. Metadata layer 4.

Architecture 52

Architecture Data Lake Metadata Unstructured Data 52

Data Engineering Weekly

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Data catalogs are the most expensive data integration systems you never intended to build. Data Catalog as a passive web portal to display metadata requires significant rethinking to adopt modern data workflow, not just adding “modern” in its prefix. How happy are you with your data catalogs?

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Metadata Data Warehouse ETL Tools Data Workflow 62

Monte Carlo

JANUARY 5, 2024

You know what they always say: data lakehouse architecture is like an onion. …ok, Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake. Metadata layer 4.

Architecture 52

Architecture Data Lake Metadata Unstructured Data 52

Silectis

JANUARY 3, 2021

If you’re new to data engineering or are a practitioner of a related field, such as data science, or business intelligence, we thought it might be helpful to have a handy list of commonly used terms available for you to get up to speed. Big Data Large volumes of structured or unstructured data.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Hadoop 40

Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 3, 2022

Summary The ecosystem for data tools has been going through rapid and constant evolution over the past several years. These technological shifts have brought about corresponding changes in data and platform architectures for managing data and analytical workflows. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

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Architecture Metadata MongoDB MySQL 100

Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 10, 2022

Summary Building a data platform is a journey, not a destination. In this episode Inbar Yogev and Lior Winner share the journey that they and their teams at Riskified have been on for their data platform. They also discuss how they have established a guild system for training and supporting data professionals in the organization.

Metadata 100

Metadata MongoDB MySQL Data Pipeline 100

Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Summary The core of any data platform is the centralized storage and processing layer. For many that is a data warehouse, but in order to support a diverse and constantly changing set of uses and technologies the data lakehouse is a paradigm that offers a useful balance of scale and cost, with performance and ease of use.

Metadata 100

Metadata AWS MongoDB MySQL 100

Christophe Blefari

JUNE 16, 2023

I'm now under the Berlin rain with 20° When I write in these conditions I feel like a tortured author writing a depressing novel while actually today I'll speak about the AI Act, Python, SQL and data platforms. Mainly he unit tests macros (the logic) with his framework and test data with soda and dbt contracts.

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Programming Language SQL PostgreSQL Data 130

Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 27, 2022

Summary Data governance is a practice that requires a high degree of flexibility and collaboration at the organizational and technical levels. The growing prominence of cloud and hybrid environments in data management adds additional stress to an already complex endeavor.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This generalisation makes their data models complex and cryptic and require domain expertise. Even harder to manage, a common setup within large organisations is to have several instances of these systems with some underlaying processes in charge of transmitting data among them, which could lead to duplications, inconsistencies, and opacity.

Systems 83

Systems Raw Data Metadata Data Cleanse 83

Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 31, 2022

Summary Data lineage is the roadmap for your data platform, providing visibility into all of the dependencies for any report, machine learning model, or data warehouse table that you are working with. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

IT 100

IT Metadata MongoDB MySQL 100

Hepta Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

DE Zoomcamp 2.2.1 – Introduction to Workflow Orchestration Following last weeks blog , we move to data ingestion. We already had a script that downloaded a csv file, processed the data and pushed the data to postgres database. This week, we got to think about our data ingestion design. It is called Idempotency.

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