Confessions of a Data Guy

JANUARY 19, 2023

I remember those days, oh so long ago, it seems like another lifetime. I haven’t used Pandas in many a year, decades, or whatever. We’ve all been there, done that. Pandas I mean. I would dare say it’s a rite of passage for most data folk. For those using Python, it’s probably one of the […] The post Replacing Pandas with Polars.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 19, 2023

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get the full issues, twice a week: subscribe here. Update on 20 January: less than a day after publishing this article, Google announced historic layoffs that will impact ~12,000 positions.

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 19, 2023

Good Design Is Easier to Change Than Bad Design – The Pragmatic Programmer Programming is just one aspect of the difficulties of tech work for data engineers. Creating simple yet robust systems that help manage your data infrastructure is equally important. This challenge of building a simple yet robust data infrastructure remains even with no-code/low-code solutions.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this article, we will discuss use cases and methods for using ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) processes along with SQL to integrate data from various sources.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Chief Data Officer is arguably one of the most important roles at a company, particularly those that aspire to be data-driven. CDO appointments and the elevation of data leaders have accelerated in recent years, and the role has morphed as perceptions of data have evolved. Responsibilities span strategy and execution, people and processes, and the technology needed to deliver on the promise of data.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 19, 2023

This post demonstrates how to skillfully transform strings columns with the libcudf general-purpose API. You’ll gain new knowledge on how to unlock peak performance using custom kernels and libcudf device-side utilities.

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ThoughtSpot

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tech has a diversity problem. As a veteran People leader, I see and hear about it all the time — in media , in the board room, and in my daily work. And yet, as much as our industry is known for solving large-scale problems and disrupting the status quo, improvement in this area doesn’t seem to be happening fast enough. Why not? When I look at companies leading our industry in DEI, there’s one thing that stands out: data.

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Uber Engineering

JANUARY 19, 2023

Uber heavily relies on open source technologies for the Data analytics stack. In this blog post, we dive into the technical details behind solutions that helped us scale the adoption of Kerberos for authentication for the entire Data analytics infrastructure.

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Cloudyard

JANUARY 19, 2023

Read Time: 1 Minute, 53 Second During this post we will discuss an interesting use case related to TASKS. Say we have two TASKS i.e. TASK_A and TASK_B exists in our database where TASK_B is depend on TASK_A. Two procedures, PROC_A and PROC_B are coupled with these TASKS respectively. On successful completion of TASK_A we want to set some status or custom defined message in a variable.

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Knoldus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dialogflow is a GCP framework that enables users to develop easy human-computer interaction technologies that can support Natural Language Processing (NLP). Basically, Dialogflow handles the job of translating natural language to machine-readable data using machine-learning models trained by your examples. Why use GCP Dialogflow A few reasons to use Dialogflow are – Building Blocks of GCP Dialogflow AGENTS The agent is basically your entire chatbot Continue Reading

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Snowflake

JANUARY 19, 2023

Snowflake connected with Sridevi Potu, McKesson’s Director of Data Analytics Platform Services, at the Data Cloud World Tour in Austin, Texas. Learn about the company’s journey to Snowflake and how it’s implementing a cross-cloud data strategy. McKesson is one of the largest distributors of healthcare supplies and pharmaceuticals, delivering a third of all pharmaceuticals used in North America, along with offering healthcare IT products and services.

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Knoldus

JANUARY 19, 2023

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Precisely

JANUARY 19, 2023

Mainframes make up some of the most formidable computing power in the world , processing 90 percent of all credit card transactions and 68 percent of the world’s production IT workloads. At the same time, they represent only 6 percent of IT costs. The mainframe is alive and well, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. The security, scalability, and reliability of these systems makes them ideal for intensive mission-critical workloads.

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Acceldata

JANUARY 19, 2023

Data observability helps to optimize the modern data stack by being a solution for DataOps teams and all aspects of data operations.

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Acceldata

JANUARY 19, 2023

Acceldata's latest employee spotlight, which focuses on Employee Spotlight: Tej Madaiah, Senior Manager, Customer Success.

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