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Eliminate Friction In Your Data Platform Through Unified Metadata Using OpenMetadata

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary A significant source of friction and wasted effort in building and integrating data management systems is the fragmentation of metadata across various tools. After experiencing the impacts of fragmented metadata and previous attempts at building a solution Suresh Srinivas and Sriharsha Chintalapani created the OpenMetadata project.

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Metadata Management And Integration At LinkedIn With DataHub

Data Engineering Podcast

The key to those solutions is a robust and flexible metadata management system. LinkedIn has gone through several iterations on the most maintainable and scalable approach to metadata, leading them to their current work on DataHub. What were you using at LinkedIn for metadata management prior to the introduction of DataHub?

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Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency

Confluent

Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […].

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The Importance of Distributed Tracing for Apache-Kafka-Based Applications

Confluent

Apache-Kafka ® -based applications stand out for their ability to decouple producers and consumers using an event log as an intermediate layer. This article describes how to instrument Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing capabilities in order to make dataflows between event-based components more visible.

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Databook: Turning Big Data into Knowledge with Metadata at Uber

Uber Engineering

Data powers Uber’s global marketplace, enabling more reliable and seamless user experiences across our products for riders, … The post Databook: Turning Big Data into Knowledge with Metadata at Uber appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Implementing Kafka in the Payments PCI World

Afterpay Tech

Photo by Leon S on Unsplash By: Jing Li Summary This article articulates the challenges, innovation and success of the Kafka implementation in Afterpay’s Global Payments Platform in the PCI zone. Context The asynchronous processing capability that Kafka offers opens up numerous innovation opportunities to interact with other services.

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Data Reprocessing Pipeline in Asset Management Platform @Netflix

Netflix Tech

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. During this evolution, quite often we receive requests to update the existing assets metadata or add new metadata for the new features added.