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Airflow XCOM: The Ultimate Guide

Marc Lamberti

Wondering how to share data between tasks? What are XCOMs in Apache Airflow? Well, you are at the right place. In this tutorial, you will learn about XComs in Airflow. What they are, how they work, how you can define them, how to get them, and more. If you checked my course “Apache Airflow: The Hands-On Guide”, Aiflow XCom should not sound unfamiliar.

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Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem

The Pragmatic Engineer

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of four topics in yesterday’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. Two weeks ago, a JavaScript runtime and toolkit called Bun was released and took the Node.js world by storm. Bun was mostly built by Jared Sumner , a former Stripe engineer, and recipient of the Thiel Fellowship (a grant of $100,000 for young people to drop out of s

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What is Apache Airflow?

Marc Lamberti

What is Apache Airflow? Perhaps your colleagues or YouTube videos have mentioned it. Maybe your job requires you to use it, but you’re unsure what it is. In this article, you will learn everything about what Airflow is, what it isn’t, and its core concepts and components. But, before answering this question, we need a proper understanding of what an “orchestrator” is.

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Effective Small Language Models: Microsoft’s 1.3 Billion Parameter phi-1.5

KDnuggets

Learn about Microsoft’s 1.3 billion parameter model that has outperformed Llama 2’s 7-billion parameters model on several benchmarks.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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ArcGIS for Nature-Related Assessments

ArcGIS

This Climate Week renews focus on nature. Learn more about how ArcGIS supports nature-related assessments to run sustainable organizations.

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Optimizing Data Storage: Exploring Data Types and Normalization in SQL

KDnuggets

Learn about the data types and normalization techniques in SQL, which will be very helpful for optimizing your data storage.

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Top 5 Free Alternatives to GPT-4

KDnuggets

Think GPT-4 is a big deal? These Generative AI newbies are already stealing the show!

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McAfee Moves from Monolith to Microservices on Confluent Cloud

Confluent

Learn how moving from a monolith to event-driven microservices architecture helped McAfee add more scalability and performance,, including rolling out products and features faster, and how Confluent helped.

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Exploring Neural Networks

KDnuggets

Unlocking the power of AI: a suide to neural networks and their applications.

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Congratulations to Summer Hackathon Winners!

databricks

Earlier this year, Databricks launched Dolly 2.0: the world's first truly open instruction-tuned Large Language Model (LLM). To build off this excitement around.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How to Become a Clinical Project Manager in 2023

Knowledge Hut

In the healthcare and pharmaceutical fields, Clinical Project Managers (CPMs) play a vital role in making sure that research and clinical trials run smoothly. They need a special mix of project management skills and deep knowledge about rules and science. In this article, I'll guide you on how to pursue a career as a CPM. Clinical research is crucial for medical progress, and CPMs make it happen while following strict rules, like those from the FDA.

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PostgreSQL on Google Cloud SQL to Snowflake: 2 Easy Methods to Load Data

Hevo

Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, a part of Google’s robust cloud ecosystem, offers businesses a dependable solution for managing relational data. However, with the expanding need for advanced data analytics, it is required to integrate data storage and processing platforms like Snowflake.

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Microsoft Azure Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

Knowledge Hut

In 2023, many companies are using Microsoft Azure because it's a trusted tool for online services. This means there's a big demand for experts in Azure. As more businesses move online, they're looking for one main system, and Azure is becoming that system. I want to help explain what an Azure engineer does. When we talk about an "Azure job description," we mean the list of jobs an Azure engineer does and the skills they need.

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PostgreSQL on Google Cloud SQL to SQL Server: 2 Easy Methods to Load Data

Hevo

Migrating data from Google Cloud PostgreSQL to SQL Server is a strategic move that addresses various business needs. Firstly, this migration enables seamless integration within the Microsoft ecosystem, facilitating efficient data sharing and management across platforms. Secondly, it unlocks scalability, ensuring that your data infrastructure can effortlessly expand with growing demand.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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AWS Cloud Practitioner Job Description-2023

Knowledge Hut

AWS is the biggest, most potent, and most well-known cloud platform, offering more than 200 fully featured services from data centers across the globe. Start-ups, leading companies, and federal agencies use AWS services to save costs, improve agility, and increase productivity. Throughout my journey in this dynamic realm, I've observed a rising demand for competent cloud computing professionals.

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LF Europe Summit Journal - Day Three by Colin Eberhardt

Scott Logic

This year I’m attending the Linux Foundation Europe Summit, a sizable event bringing together 1,000s of people involved in open source. I typically take extensive notes of the sessions I attend, so thought I’d share them here on our blog. This is the final day of my journal, where day one was all OSPOs, SBOM security, and AI and day two was surveys, statistics and the fragility of the node ecosystem.

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How to Become an Architectural Project Manager?

Knowledge Hut

We are all aware of how difficult managing a construction project can be. My personal experience has taught me how stressful it can be to be surrounded by confusing architectural blueprints. Also, with many changes usually introduced in construction projects, people typically worry about maintaining their projects on schedule and under budget. Fortunately, architectural project managers are always available to lend a helping hand.

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How to Become an Infrastructure Project Manager?

Knowledge Hut

I have always been fascinated by infrastructure and construction projects. The concept of designing and creating large-scale projects seems truly inspiring. It led me to think about building a career as an Infrastructure Project Manager. In this role, I find myself at the center of magnificent undertakings, meticulously supervising every facet from inception to completion.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Microsoft Azure Administrator - Certification: Exploring the Costs and Benefits

Knowledge Hut

We have transitioned into a digital world where cloud computing acts as the driving force behind innovation, and Microsoft Azure stands as a frontrunner in this domain. The platform helps businesses to scale and succeed in the dynamic digital terrain. With more organizations migrating their operations to the cloud, the Microsoft Azure Administrator role has gained paramount significance.

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Top Cloud Security Certifications in 2023

Knowledge Hut

Digital transformation will dominate the world of IT in 2023. Today, organizations are migrating towards cloud technologies to streamline operations and enhance business agility. At the same time, the workforce is gravitating towards remote work. A direct result of this is a rising trend of remote data access. This, in turn, opens up the question of data security at scale.

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Is Azure Data Engineer Certification (DP-203) Worth It?

Knowledge Hut

At the moment, data is the greatest superpower. I, as a business owner, can make better decisions if the right and relevant data is collected. Furthermore, effective information utilisation may help to enable enhancements in customer service. This has contributed to the unexpected increase in demand for data scientists. In the clamour for data scientists, nobody, however, emphasizes the importance of a data engineer.