September, 2023

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Top 20 Data Engineering Project Ideas [With Source Code]

Analytics Vidhya

Data engineering plays a pivotal role in the vast data ecosystem by collecting, transforming, and delivering data essential for analytics, reporting, and machine learning. Aspiring data engineers often seek real-world projects to gain hands-on experience and showcase their expertise. This article presents the top 20 data engineering project ideas with their source code.

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover a fresh industry trends: Cloud Developent Environments — which is analysis full subscribers have received 3 weeks ago.

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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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ETL vs. ELT?

Waitingforcode

In our social media and marketing-driven era, it's quite hard to get things right. For me there is one common misconception brought by the Modern Data Stack idea that everything should be now ELT. In fact no, it shouldn't but only can.

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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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The Role of DevOps and CI/CD in Data Engineering

Confessions of a Data Guy

In the vast world of data, it’s not just about gathering and analyzing information anymore; it’s also about ensuring that data pipelines, processes, and platforms run seamlessly and efficiently. Nothing screams “why are flying by night,” than coming into a Data Team only to find no tests, no docs, no deployments, no Docker, no nothing. […] The post The Role of DevOps and CI/CD in Data Engineering appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Eliminate The Overhead In Your Data Integration With The Open Source dlt Library

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Cloud data warehouses and the introduction of the ELT paradigm has led to the creation of multiple options for flexible data integration, with a roughly equal distribution of commercial and open source options. The challenge is that most of those options are complex to operate and exist in their own silo. The dlt project was created to eliminate overhead and bring data integration into your full control as a library component of your overall data system.

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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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Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

Engineering at Meta

Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very key, distinctive goal – being an app that would allow people to share their content across multiple platforms. We wanted to build a decentralized (or federated) app that would enable people to post content that is viewable by anyone on other social apps, and vice versa.

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Best Practices for LLM Evaluation of RAG Applications

databricks

Chatbots are the most widely adopted use case for leveraging the powerful chat and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLM). The retrieval.

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Top 20 Software Development Courses in 2023

Knowledge Hut

As a seasoned software developer with almost a decade of experience in the tech industry, I vividly remember the excitement of taking my first web development course. Back then, I was just starting my journey as a front-end web developer, and that course was a stepping-stone that transformed my career. Today, I am thrilled to share my insights on some of the top software development courses available, hoping to empower aspiring developers like you to find the perfect path to success.

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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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Predicting Snow Crab Habitat Using Machine Learning

ArcGIS

In collaboration with NOAA, we used the Presence-Only Prediction (Maxent) tool to predict snow crab habitat under changing climate conditions.

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10 ChatGPT Projects Cheat Sheet

KDnuggets

KDnuggets' latest cheat sheet covers 10 curated hands-on projects to boost data science workflows with ChatGPT across ML, NLP, and full stack dev, including links to full project details.

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Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

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 today’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. Willem Spruijt is a software engineer whom I worked on the same team with at Uber in Amsterdam, building payments systems.

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Meta Quest 2: Defense through offense

Engineering at Meta

Meta’s Native Assurance team regularly performs manual code reviews as part of our ongoing commitment to improve the security posture of Meta’s products. In 2021, we discovered a vulnerability in the Meta Quest 2’s Android-based OS that never made it to production but helped us find new ways to improve the security of Meta Quest products. We’re sharing our journey to get arbitrary native code execution in the privileged VR Runtime service on the Meta Quest 2 by exploiting a memory corruption v

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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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Deploy Private LLMs using Databricks Model Serving

databricks

We are excited to announce public preview of GPU and LLM optimization support for Databricks Model Serving! With this launch, you can deploy.

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Securely Connect to LLMs and Other External Services from Snowpark

Snowflake

Snowpark is the set of libraries and runtimes that enables data engineers, data scientists and developers to build data engineering pipelines, ML workflows, and data applications in Python, Java, and Scala. Functions or procedures written by users in these languages are executed inside of Snowpark’s secure sandbox environment , which runs on the warehouse.

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Old School: Adapting Esri Basemaps for Printed Products

ArcGIS

Esri basemaps are designed to be used at multiple scales, but a static map needs everything in one view. How doe we get around that?

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Top 7 Free Cloud Notebooks for Data Science

KDnuggets

Cloud notebooks are game-changers for data science, providing free access to computing, pre-built environments, collaboration features, and third-party integrations - everything you need to enhance your workflow.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Fueling Data-Driven Decision-Making with Data Validation and Enrichment Processes

Precisely

77% of data and analytics professionals say data-driven decision-making is the top goal for their data programs. Data-driven decision-making and initiatives are certainly in demand, but their success hinges on … well, the data that supports them. More specifically, the quality and integrity of that data. It seems obvious enough, but checking that your data is up to the task and taking any necessary steps to improve and maintain its quality can be easier said than done.

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Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization

Engineering at Meta

Meta presents Chakra execution traces , an open graph-based representation of AI/ML workload execution, laying the foundation for benchmarking and network performance optimization. Chakra execution traces represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. In collaboration with MLCommons , we are seeking industry-wide adoption for benchmarking.

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Robinhood Announces Purchase of Shares Previously Owned by Emergent Fidelity Technologies

Robinhood

Robinhood Markets. Inc. (Nasdaq:HOOD) today announced that it has successfully purchased all 55,273,469 shares Earlier this year, we shared that our Board of Directors authorized us to pursue purchasing most or all of the 55 million remaining Robinhood shares that Emergent Fidelity Technologies, Ltd. had bought in May 2022. The proposed share purchase underscored the confidence that the Board of Directors and management team have in our business and the success of this effort is another step in

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CISSP-ISSAP Certification Salary in 2023: Complete Earnings

Knowledge Hut

In the realm of cybersecurity, the pursuit of expertise is not only a passion but a necessity. As I embarked on the journey to strengthen my skills and broaden my horizons, the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential emerged as a key qualification for professional recognition. However, achieving the CISSP-Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) specialization demanded more than just dedication—it necessitated guidance through the best CISSP t

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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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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Everything you Need to Become a SAS Certified Data Scientist

KDnuggets

With a shortage of talent and an abundance of opportunity, there’s never been a better time to launch or advance your data science career with the SAS Academy for Data Science. Read on to find out everything you need to become a SAS Certified Data Scientist.

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Measuring Technical Debt to Avoid the Boiling Frog Syndrome

Booking.com Engineering

source Software development is all about change. And, over the lifespan of our software, the goal is to implement required changes in a reasonable amount of time. Whether the changes are technical in nature, like an urgent security upgrade, or stem from a business need, such as building a new feature to make us more competitive in target markets — how fast we can change is critical.

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How Edmunds builds a blueprint for generative AI

databricks

This blog post is in collaboration with Greg Rokita, AVP of Technology at Edmunds. Long envisioned as a key milestone in computing, we've.

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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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Lessons from debugging a tricky direct memory leak

Pinterest Engineering

Sanchay Javeria | Software Engineer, Ads Data Infrastructure To support metrics reporting for ads from external advertisers and real-time ad budget calculations at Pinterest, we run streaming pipelines using Apache Flink. These jobs have guaranteed an overall 99th percentile availability to our users; however, every once in a while some tasks get hit with nasty direct out-of-memory (OOM) errors on multiple operators that look something like this: As is the case with most failures in a distribute

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Top Scrum Alliance Certifications That Pay Well in 2023

Knowledge Hut

Scrum Alliance training is crucial when it comes to proving competency in project management practices. A good Scrum Alliance certification can imminently help you to excel in your career. It is a versatile Agile Project Management framework suitable for any industry. Scrum Alliance certifications not only help to improve an organization's productivity but are also widely responsible for improving product qualities, risk mitigation, and robust team dynamics.

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A Watershed Moment

ArcGIS

Updated data from the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) are added to Living Atlas as new feature services.

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Hands-On with Unsupervised Learning: K-Means Clustering

KDnuggets

This tutorial provides hands-on experience with the key concepts and implementation of K-Means clustering, a popular unsupervised learning algorithm, for customer segmentation and targeted advertising applications.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.