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5 Helpful Extract & Load Practices for High-Quality Raw Data

Meltano

Setting the Stage: We need E&L practices, because “copying raw data” is more complex than it sounds. For instance, how would you know which orders got “canceled”, an operation that usually takes place in the same data record and just “modifies” it in place. But not at the ingestion level.

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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

In the ELT, the load is done before the transform part without any alteration of the data leaving the raw data ready to be transformed in the data warehouse. In a simple words dbt sits on top of your raw data to organise all your SQL queries that are defining your data assets.

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A Data Mesh Implementation: Expediting Value Extraction from ERP/CRM Systems

Towards Data Science

As you do not want to start your development with uncertainty, you decide to go for the operational raw data directly. Accessing Operational Data I used to connect to views in transactional databases or APIs offered by operational systems to request the raw data. Does it sound familiar?

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1. Streamlining Membership Data Engineering at Netflix with Psyberg

Netflix Tech

The fact tables then feed downstream intraday pipelines that process the data hourly. Raw data for hours 3 and 6 arrive. Hour 6 data flows through the various workflows, while hour 3 triggers a late data audit alert. It leverages Iceberg metadata to facilitate processing incremental and batch-based data pipelines.

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5 Big Data Challenges in 2024

Knowledge Hut

The greatest data processing challenge of 2024 is the lack of qualified data scientists with the skill set and expertise to handle this gigantic volume of data. Inability to process large volumes of data Out of the 2.5 quintillion data produced, only 60 percent workers spend days on it to make sense of it.

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Solving Data Lineage Tracking And Data Discovery At WeWork

Data Engineering Podcast

The solution to discoverability and tracking of data lineage is to incorporate a metadata repository into your data platform. The metadata repository serves as a data catalog and a means of reporting on the health and status of your datasets when it is properly integrated into the rest of your tools.

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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

AltexSoft

The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data. This article explains what a data lake is, its architecture, and diverse use cases. Watch our video explaining how data engineering works.