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Data Architect: Role Description, Skills, Certifications and When to Hire

AltexSoft

This suggests that today, there are many companies that face the need to make their data easily accessible, cleaned up, and regularly updated. Hiring a well-skilled data architect can be very helpful for that purpose. What is a data architect? Let’s discuss and compare them to avoid misconceptions.

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Introducing Polaris Catalog: An Open Source Catalog for Apache Iceberg

Snowflake

This leaves data architects and engineers with the difficult task of navigating these constraints and making difficult trade-offs between complexity and lock-in. In an effort to improve interoperability, the Apache Iceberg community has developed an open standard of a REST protocol in the Iceberg project.

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Simplify Application Development With Hybrid Tables

Snowflake

We previously announced Snowflake’s Unistore workload , which continues Snowflake’s legacy of breaking down data silos by uniting transactional and analytical data in a consistent and governed platform. Hybrid Tables is a new table type that enables transactional use cases within Snowflake with fast, high-concurrency point operations.

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AWS Solutions Architect Job Opportunities in 2024 [Career Options]

Knowledge Hut

Did you know that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a 33% market share in cloud computing? With this leadership status in the domain, the job roles associated with AWS have also gained traction. AWS solutions architect career opportunities have grown multiplefold. Businesses in every sector realize cloud adoption.

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How to Become an AWS Data Engineer in 2023?

Knowledge Hut

In the cloud services and data engineering space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leader, with a market share of 32%. These companies are constantly looking out for professionals who are familiar with and can develop newer technologies and systems for larger volumes of data. Who is an AWS Data Engineer and What Do They Do?

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Striim Cloud on AWS: Unify your data with a fully managed change data capture and data streaming service

Striim

Thousands of companies are centralizing their analytics and applications on the AWS ecosystem. However, fragmented data can slow down the delivery of great product experiences and internal operations. How does Striim Cloud bring value to the AWS ecosystem? Sources and targets Striim supports more than 120+ sources and targets.

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Snowpark-Optimized Warehouses: Production-Ready ML Training and Other Memory-Intensive Operations

Snowflake

This new wave of developers using Snowflake often requires more flexibility in the underlying compute infrastructure to unlock memory-intensive operations on large data sets such as ML training. When you need a lot of memory, Snowpark-optimized warehouses can save so much effort and cost,” said James Schurig, Data Architect at iPipeline.

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