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Snowflake’s New Python API Empowers Data Engineers to Build Modern Data Pipelines with Ease

Snowflake

This traditional SQL-centric approach often challenged data engineers working in a Python environment, requiring context-switching and limiting the full potential of Python’s rich libraries and frameworks. While the Python API connector remains available for specific SQL use cases, the new API is designed to be your go-to solution.

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Snowflake Startup Challenge 2024: Announcing the 10 Semi-Finalists

Snowflake

The list of Top 10 semi-finalists is a perfect example: we have use cases for cybersecurity, gen AI, food safety, restaurant chain pricing, quantitative trading analytics, geospatial data, sales pipeline measurement, marketing tech and healthcare. Stellar Stellar is designed to make generative AI easy for Snowflake customers.

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Data Engineering Weekly #161

Data Engineering Weekly

2) Why High-Quality Data Products Beats Complexity in Building LLM Apps - Ananth Packildurai I will walk through the evolution of model-centric to data-centric AI and how data products and DPLM (Data Product Lifecycle Management) systems are vital for an organization's system. Part 1: Why did we need to build our own SIEM?

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What Is A DataOps Engineer? Skills, Salary, & How to Become One

Monte Carlo

In a nutshell, DataOps engineers are responsible not only for designing and building data pipelines, but iterating on them via automation and collaboration as well. While a DataOps engineer is primarily focused on ensuring pipelines run smoothly, data engineers are more focused on designing and implementing those pipelines themselves.

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Pandas 2.0: A Game-Changer for Data Scientists?

Towards Data Science

Although I wasn’t aware of all the hype, the Data-Centric AI Community promptly came to the rescue: The 2.0 Performance, Speed, and Memory-Efficiency As we all know, pandas was built using numpy, which was not intentionally designed as a backend for dataframe libraries. Yep, pandas 2.0 is out and came with guns blazing ! But what else?

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Transforming MLOps at DoorDash with Machine Learning Workbench

DoorDash Engineering

Setting an initial ambitious goal to drive model development velocity, we soon assembled a team that included both design and engineering. I frequently check Pipeline Runs and Sensor Ticks, but, often verify with Dagit.” All of this prompted creation of The ML Workbench: A Homepage for ML Practitioners at DoorDash.

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Creating Value With a Data-Centric Culture: Essential Capabilities to Treat Data as a Product

Ascend.io

Treating data as a product is more than a concept; it’s a paradigm shift that can significantly elevate the value that business intelligence and data-centric decision-making have on the business. Data pipelines Data integrity Data lineage Data stewardship Data catalog Data product costing Let’s review each one in detail.