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Open-Sourcing AvroTensorDataset: A Performant TensorFlow Dataset For Processing Avro Data

LinkedIn Engineering

In this blog post, we will discuss the AvroTensorDataset API, techniques we used to improve data processing speeds by up to 162x over existing solutions (thereby decreasing overall training time by up to 66%), and performance results from benchmarks and production. an array within a map, within a union, etc…).

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A Definitive Guide to Using BigQuery Efficiently

Towards Data Science

Introduction In the field of data warehousing, there’s a universal truth: managing data can be costly. Like a dragon guarding its treasure, each byte stored and each query executed demands its share of gold coins. But let me give you a magical spell to appease the dragon: burn data, not money! in europe-west3.

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Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

Engineering at Meta

The purpose was to accelerate the data processing operations commonly found in our workloads in ways that were not possible using Arrow. In the new representation , the first four bytes of the view object always contain the string size. first writing StringView at position 2, then 0 and 1).

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Modern Data Engineering: Free Spark to Snowpark Migration Accelerator for Faster, Cheaper Pipelines in Snowflake

Snowflake

In the age of AI, enterprises are increasingly looking to extract value from their data at scale but often find it difficult to establish a scalable data engineering foundation that can process the large amounts of data required to build or improve models. For conversion, if you’re just getting started, start small.

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5 Big Data Challenges in 2024

Knowledge Hut

Foresighted enterprises are the ones who will be able to leverage this data for maximum profitability through data processing and handling techniques. With the rise in opportunities related to Big Data, challenges are also bound to increase. Below are the 5 major Big Data challenges that enterprises face in 2024: 1.

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Towards Data Science

It consists of approximately 8 million rows of data (with a total amount of 1.52 GB) recording incidents of crime that occurred in Chicago since 2001, where each record has geographic data indicating the incident’s location. Big Query provides the job execution details for every query executed. GB to 55 MB and 7M to 260k).

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A Glimpse into the Redesigned Goku-Ingestor vNext at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Pinterest’s real-time metrics asynchronous data processing pipeline, powering Pinterest’s time series database Goku, stood at the crossroads of opportunity. The mission was clear: identify bottlenecks, innovate relentlessly, and propel our real-time analytics processing capabilities into an era of unparalleled efficiency.

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