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Streaming Big Data Files from Cloud Storage

Towards Data Science

This continues a series of posts on the topic of efficient ingestion of data from the cloud (e.g., Before we get started, let’s be clear…when using cloud storage, it is usually not recommended to work with files that are particularly large. There a number of methods for downloading a file to a local disk.

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What are the Best Free Cloud Storages in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

But one thing is for sure, tech enthusiasts like us will never stop hunting for the best free online cloud storage platforms to upgrade our unlimited free cloud storage game. What is Cloud Storage? Cloud storage provides you with cost-effective, scalable storage. What is the need for it?

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Creating a Data Pipeline with Spark, Google Cloud Storage and Big Query

Towards Data Science

And that’s the target of today’s post — We’ll be developing a data pipeline using Apache Spark, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Big Query (using the free tier) not sponsored. Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is Google’s blob storage. Create a new bucket in the Google Cloud Storage named censo-ensino-superior 4.

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Introducing rules_gcs

Tweag

We recently completed a project with IMAX, where we learned that they had developed a way to simplify and optimize the process of integrating Google Cloud Storage (GCS) with Bazel. rules_gcs is a Bazel ruleset that facilitates the downloading of files from Google Cloud Storage. What is rules_gcs ?

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

Netflix Tech

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Directory Tables : Access Unstructured Data

Cloudyard

Read Time: 2 Minute, 30 Second For instance, Consider a scenario where we have unstructured data in our cloud storage. Therefore, As per the requirement, Business users wants to download the files from cloud storage. But due to compliance issue, users were not authorized to login to the cloud provider.

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

Snowflake

Ingestion Pipelines : Handling data from cloud storage and dealing with different formats can be efficiently managed with the accelerator. Get started The Snowpark Migration Accelerator is available now for free just by downloading the installer onto your local machine or container.