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They Handle 500B Events Daily. Here’s Their Data Engineering Architecture.

Monte Carlo

A data engineering architecture is the structural framework that determines how data flows through an organization – from collection and storage to processing and analysis. It’s the big blueprint we data engineers follow in order to transform raw data into valuable insights.

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Data Warehouses vs. Data Lakes vs. Data Marts: Need Help Deciding?

KDnuggets

A comparative overview of data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts to help you make informed decisions on data storage solutions for your data architecture.

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Shift Left: Headless Data Architecture, Part 1

Confluent

A headless data architecture separates data storage, management, optimization, and access from services that write, process, and query it—creating a single point of access control.

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What is Azure architecture?

Knowledge Hut

Azure architecture includes all the ideas and elements needed to build a safe, dependable, and scalable cloud application. The resources are distributed across multiple data centers and global areas, adhering to a distributed paradigm. What Is Microsoft Azure Cloud Architecture? What are the key components of Azure Architecture?

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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

phData: Data Engineering

The world we live in today presents larger datasets, more complex data, and diverse needs, all of which call for efficient, scalable data systems. Though basic and easy to use, traditional table storage formats struggle to keep up. Track data files within the table along with their column statistics.

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Open-Source Data Warehousing – Druid, Apache Airflow & Superset

Simon Späti

In my recent blog, I researched OLAP technologies, for this post I chose some open-source technologies and used them together to build a full data architecture for a Data Warehouse system. I went with Apache Druid for data storage, Apache Superset for querying and Apache Airflow as a task orchestrator.

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How to Use Kafka for Event Streaming in a Microservices Architecture?

Workfall

It means that there is a high risk of data loss but Apache Kafka solves this because it is distributed and can easily scale horizontally and other servers can take over the workload seamlessly. Kafka can also be used to stream data from IoT devices or sensors. Let’s get started!

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