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Monitoring Data Quality for Your Big Data Pipelines Made Easy

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Imagine yourself in command of a sizable cargo ship sailing through hazardous waters. It is your responsibility to deliver precious cargo to its destination safely. Determine success by the precision of your charts, the equipment’s dependability, and your crew’s expertise. A single mistake, glitch, or slip-up could endanger the trip. In the data-driven world […] The post Monitoring Data Quality for Your Big Data Pipelines Made Easy appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

The Pragmatic Engineer

The below topic was sent out to full subscribers of The Pragmatic Engineer , three weeks ago, in The Pulse #66. I have received several messages from people asking if they can pay to “unlock” this information for others, given how vital it is for software engineers. It is vital, and so I’m sharing this with all readers, without a paywall.

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Shining Some Light In The Black Box Of PostgreSQL Performance

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Databases are the core of most applications, but they are often treated as inscrutable black boxes. When an application is slow, there is a good probability that the database needs some attention. In this episode Lukas Fittl shares some hard-won wisdom about the causes and solution of many performance bottlenecks and the work that he is doing to shine some light on PostgreSQL to make it easier to understand how to keep it running smoothly.

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Patching the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver

Zalando Engineering

Introduction This blog post describes a recent contribution from Zalando to the Postgres JDBC driver to address a long-standing issue with the driver’s integration with Postgres’ logical replication that resulted in runaway Write-Ahead Log (WAL) growth. We will describe the issue, how it affected us at Zalando, and detail the fix made upstream in the JDBC driver that fixes the issue for Debezium and all other clients of the Postgres JDBC driver.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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Table file formats - checkpoints: Delta Lake

Waitingforcode

Checkpoints are a well-known fault-tolerance mechanism in stream processing. But what does it have to do with Delta Lake?

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Introduction to Giskard: Open-Source Quality Management for AI Models

KDnuggets

To solve the conundrum of ensuring the quality of AI models in production — especially given the emergence of LLMs — we are thrilled to announce the official launch of Giskard, the premier open-source AI quality management system.

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What’s New in ArcGIS Pro 3.2

ArcGIS

From oriented imagery to engaging thematic map series, there is something for everyone in this release of ArcGIS Pro 3.2.

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Enhancing the security of WhatsApp calls

Engineering at Meta

New optional features in WhatsApp have helped make calling on WhatsApp more secure. “Silence Unknown Callers” is a new setting on WhatsApp that not only quiets annoying calls but also blocks sophisticated cyber attacks. “Protect IP Address in Calls” is a new setting on WhatsApp that helps hide your location from other parties on the call. Privacy and security are at the core of WhatsApp.

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Apache Ozone – A Multi-Protocol Aware Storage System

Cloudera

Are you struggling to manage the ever-increasing volume and variety of data in today’s constantly evolving landscape of modern data architectures? The vast tapestry of data types spanning structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data means data professionals need to be proficient with various data formats such as ORC, Parquet, Avro, CSV, and Apache Iceberg tables, to cover the ever growing spectrum of datasets – be they images, videos, sensor data, or other type of media content

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The Definitive Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide

Are you thinking of adding enhanced data matching and relationship detection to your product or service? Do you need to know more about what to look for when assessing your options? The Senzing Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide gives you step-by-step details about everything you should consider when evaluating entity resolution technologies. You’ll learn about use cases, technology and deployment options, top ten evaluation criteria and more.

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5 Free University Courses on Data Analytics

KDnuggets

Thinking about getting into the data analytical world but do not know where to start? Have a look at these 5 FREE university courses on data analytics.

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Let’s do data science V: New Multidimensional Raster Capabilities

ArcGIS

This blog summarizes new capabilities on multidimensional raster, STAC, trajectory data, and image processing in ArcGIS Pro 3.

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Introducing Python User-Defined Table Functions (UDTFs)

databricks

Apache Spark™ 3.5 and Databricks Runtime 14.0 have brought an exciting feature to the table: Python user-defined table functions (UDTFs). In this blog p.

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SQL in Data Analytics World! #POST 6

Medium Data Engineering

Imagine a magical language that lets you talk to databases and make them spill their secrets – that’s SQL! It’s the superhero of data analytics, making sense of heaps of information.

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Navigating Data Science Job Titles: Data Analyst vs. Data Scientist vs. Data Engineer

KDnuggets

No, they’re not the same jobs! Learn what responsibilities, skills, and tools used make them different. Then, choose the right career path for you.

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How Much Can A CSD Earn After Completing The Course Successfully?

Knowledge Hut

In the competitive job market of today, the Certified Scrum Developer training is one thing that can set you apart from the rest. A successful Scrum Developer is committed to delivering continuous improvement. The dedication and coursework that is needed for the achievement of a CSD certification will help you to sharpen your skills leading you to become a much better practitioner of Scrum.

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Leveraging Flink to Detect User Sessions and Engage DoorDash Consumers with Real-Time Notifications

DoorDash Engineering

At Doordash, we value every chance to boost order conversions in the app. When users fail to complete a purchase after adding items to their carts, we send push notifications such as the one shown in Figure 1 to remind them that their orders are still pending. It has been difficult, however, to determine whether users actually have abandoned their carts or instead are simply browsing for more items or different merchants within the app.

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VBA for Data Analytics Mastery: #POST 4

Medium Data Engineering

In the dynamic field of data analytics, Microsoft Excel VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) emerges as a potent ally, offering the ability to transform raw data into actionable insights.

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365 Data Science Offers Free Course Access Until Nov. 20

KDnuggets

From November 6 (07:00 PST) to November 20 (07:00 PST), enjoy free unlimited access to 365 Data Science's comprehensive curriculum, interactive courses, practical data projects, and earn industry-recognized certificates—all at no charge.

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How Are Layoffs Creating A Chasm In IT Industry?

Knowledge Hut

2017 is making a boom of mass layoffs. While taking up a job, we usually consider employment security is a pre-eminent thing. A jolt, mass layoffs in each and every sector are eliciting panic among the employees and youths as well. Every job seeker in this planet requires stability and a risk-free environment. The Recession has been badly affecting the IT sector by unexpectedly slicing the labor-force because of the inclusion of the new advanced technologies and reduced market growth.

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Supply Chain Disruption and ESG Risk Management Powered by Bloomberg Data in the Databricks Lakehouse Platform

databricks

This blog is the first of a series of blog posts highlighting industry-leading data providers we collaborate with and Marketplace data providers. Special.

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Title: Battle of the Champions: Real Madrid Vs. Braga?—?A Night to Remember

Medium Data Engineering

On a crisp evening filled with palpable anticipation, Europe’s grand stage was set as two top-notch footballing teams, Real Madrid and Braga, collided head-on in the Champions League.

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AI + No-Code: The Viral Combo Redefining Developer Innovation

KDnuggets

Time is the one thing developers can never get back. The author, discusses the value of low code/no code platforms backed by AI in promoting faster development times and increased business agility.

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Top 15+ Tips to Pass the PMP Certification Exam in 2023

Knowledge Hut

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, sponsored by the Project Management Institute (PMI), is the most recognized and respected certification credential in the field of project management. To achieve PMP certification, each candidate must satisfy all educational and experiential requirements established by PMI, agree to adhere to a code of professional conduct, and must demonstrate an acceptable and valid level of understanding and knowledge of project management.

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Running Unified PubSub Client in Production at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Jeff Xiang | Software Engineer, Logging Platform Vahid Hashemian | Software Engineer, Logging Platform Jesus Zuniga | Software Engineer, Logging Platform At Pinterest, data is ingested and transported at petabyte scale every day, bringing inspiration for our users to create a life they love. A central component of data ingestion infrastructure at Pinterest is our PubSub stack, and the Logging Platform team currently runs deployments of Apache Kafka and MemQ.

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?????????????????? Data Lakehouse ?? AWS ??? NocNoc

Medium Data Engineering

ทำไม NocNoc ถึงใช้ Data Lakehouse? ทำไมเราไม่ใช้ Databricks?

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Top 7 Essential Cheat Sheets To Ace Your Data Science Interview

KDnuggets

The blog covers cheat sheets on SQL, statistics, pandas, data visualization, scikit-learn, Git, and theoretical data science concepts.

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Challenges & Solutions of Outsourcing the Contracts in Agile

Knowledge Hut

While contracting for Agile development, both the parties agree on the scope & vision at the outset but the project is developed iteratively. The traditional contracting practice seeks to agree with “what” & “how” about the project but Agile contract agrees just with “what” leaving the “how” to be managed at the development stage by both the parties.

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Arrow-optimized Python UDFs in Apache Spark™ 3.5

databricks

In Apache Spark™, Python User-Defined Functions (UDFs) are among the most popular features. They empower users to craft custom code tailored to their u.

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Embarking on Your Data Analysis Journey: The Path to Mastery and Opportunity

Medium Data Engineering

In today’s digital age, data is the new gold, and the ability to extract insights from this wealth of information is a skill highly sought after across industries.

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Back to Basics Week 1: Python Programming & Data Science Foundations

KDnuggets

Cultivate your data science expertise with KDnuggets' Back to Basics pathway, which includes Python, data manipulation, and visualization.

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4 Tips To Improve Your Scrum Team

Knowledge Hut

Scrum is one of the popular project management methodologies at present. It is very different from the conventional project management methods and offers a fresh perspective to get the work done. In a Scrum team, the employees do not have the usual title roles such as developer, tester etc. They all work together to achieve the common goal in a short span of time and then move on to the next goal.

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License Changes coming to the ArcGIS Parcel Fabric with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.2.

ArcGIS

With ArcGIS Enterprise 11.2, the parcel fabric user type extension is replaced by the Advanced Editing user type extension.