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Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing

The Pragmatic Engineer

There is an increasing number of cloud providers offering the ability to rent virtual machines, the largest being AWS, GCP, and Azure. Other popular services include Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Germany-based Hetzner, France-headquartered OVH, and Scaleway. Creating a viable business from cloud benchmarking.

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Octopai Acquisition Enhances Metadata Management to Trust Data Across Entire Data Estate

Cloudera

The combined platform will integrate data – from wherever it originates and wherever it is stored (cloud or on prem) – to deliver real-time insights required for faster decision making and predictive generative AI applications for personalized customer experiences.

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Level Up Your Data Platform With Active Metadata

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Metadata is the lifeblood of your data platform, providing information about what is happening in your systems. In order to level up their value a new trend of active metadata is being implemented, allowing use cases like keeping BI reports up to date, auto-scaling your warehouses, and automated data governance.

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How Apache Iceberg Is Changing the Face of Data Lakes

Snowflake

Iceberg tables become interoperable while maintaining ACID compliance by adding a layer of metadata to the data files in a users object storage. An external catalog tracks the latest table metadata and helps ensure consistency across multiple readers and writers. Put simply: Iceberg is metadata.

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Why Column-Aware Metadata Is Key to Automating Data Transformations

Snowflake

We cannot scale our expertise as fast as we can scale the Data Cloud. Using column-level metadata to automate data pipelines I believe the best answer to these questions is that automation tools we use need to be column-aware. For the future, our automation tools must collect and manage metadata at the column level.

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Modern Data Architecture: Data Mesh and Data Fabric 101

Precisely

While data products may have different definitions in different organizations, in general it is seen as data entity that contains data and metadata that has been curated for a specific business purpose. A data fabric weaves together different data management tools, metadata, and automation to create a seamless architecture.

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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

dbt Labs also develop dbt Cloud which is a cloud product that hosts and runs dbt Core projects. dbt was born out of the analysis that more and more companies were switching from on-premise Hadoop data infrastructure to cloud data warehouses. With the public clouds—e.g. The company has been founded in May 2016.