Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In that time there have been a number of generational shifts in how data engineering is done. Materialize’s PostgreSQL-compatible interface lets users leverage the tools they already use, with unsurpassed simplicity enabled by full ANSI SQL support.

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Monte Carlo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

One job that has become increasingly popular across enterprise data teams is the role of the AI data engineer. Demand for AI data engineers has grown rapidly in data-driven organizations. But what does an AI data engineer do? Table of Contents What Does an AI Data Engineer Do?

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 1, 2020

Summary Data lakes offer a great deal of flexibility and the potential for reduced cost for your analytics, but they also introduce a great deal of complexity. What used to be entirely managed by the database engine is now a composition of multiple systems that need to be properly configured to work in concert.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 20, 2024

Learn data engineering, all the references ( credits ) This is a special edition of the Data News. But right now I'm in holidays finishing a hiking week in Corsica 🥾 So I wrote this special edition about: how to learn data engineering in 2024. Who are the data engineers?

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Before it migrated to Snowflake in 2022, WHOOP was using a catalog of tools — Amazon Redshift for SQL queries and BI tooling, Dremio for a data lake, PostgreSQL databases and others — that had ultimately become expensive to manage and difficult to maintain, let alone scale.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Over the years, the technology landscape for data management has given rise to various architecture patterns, each thoughtfully designed to cater to specific use cases and requirements. These patterns include both centralized storage patterns like data warehouse , data lake and data lakehouse , and distributed patterns such as data mesh.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 16, 2019

Summary Building and maintaining a data lake is a choose your own adventure of tools, services, and evolving best practices. The flexibility and freedom that data lakes provide allows for generating significant value, but it can also lead to anti-patterns and inconsistent quality in your analytics.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 21, 2024

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 22, 2022

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode.

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Cloudera

MARCH 2, 2021

However, in the typical enterprise, only a small team has the core skills needed to gain access and create value from streams of data. This data engineering skillset typically consists of Java or Scala programming skills mated with deep DevOps acumen. SQL as the democratization enabler. A rare breed.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition to free assessments and free table conversions, SnowConvert now supports accurate conversion of database views from Teradata, Oracle or SQL Server for free. Sensitive data can have enormous value but is oftentimes locked down due to privacy requirements.

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Data Engineering Weekly

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

GetInData writes an excellent summary of adding data quality checks in a Flink streaming pipeline. link] Fernando Borretti: Composable SQL One of the biggest challenges in SQL is the unit testing. The author highlights three key challenges in SQL.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Summary A data lake can be a highly valuable resource, as long as it is well built and well managed. In this episode Yoni Iny, CTO of Upsolver, discusses the various components that are necessary for a successful data lake project, how the Upsolver platform is architected, and how modern data lakes can benefit your organization.

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Summary The Presto project has become the de facto option for building scalable open source analytics in SQL for the data lake. Can you give an overview of the options that are available for someone wanting to use its SQL engine for querying their data? Hudi, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Nessie, LakeFS, etc.).

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Towards Data Science

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data Access API over Data Lake Tables Without the Complexity Build a robust GraphQL API service on top of your S3 data lake files with DuckDB and Go Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash 1. This data might be primarily used for internal reporting, but might also be valuable for other services in our organization.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Summary One of the perennial challenges posed by data lakes is how to keep them up to date as new data is collected. In this episode Ori Rafael shares his experiences from Upsolver and building scalable stream processing for integrating and analyzing data, and what the tradeoffs are when coming from a batch oriented mindset.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 24, 2024

In this episode Pete Hunt, CEO of Dagster labs, outlines these new capabilities, how they reduce the burden on data teams, and the increased collaboration that they enable across teams and business units. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this episode Tobias Macey shares his thoughts on the challenges that he is facing as he prepares to build the next set of architectural layers for his data platform to enable a larger audience to start accessing the data being managed by his team. Data lakes are notoriously complex. With Materialize, you can!

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 7, 2024

Summary Maintaining a single source of truth for your data is the biggest challenge in data engineering. Different roles and tasks in the business need their own ways to access and analyze the data in the organization. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Your first 30 days are free!

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Summary The dbt project has become overwhelmingly popular across analytics and data engineering teams. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data projects are notoriously complex. Data lakes are notoriously complex.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Introducing RudderStack Profiles. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 3, 2024

Colleen Tartow has worked across all stages of the data lifecycle, and in this episode she shares her hard-earned wisdom about how to conduct an AI program for your organization. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/data-council and use code dataengpod20 to register today!

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Data Engineering Weekly

JULY 7, 2024

Learn More → Notion: Building and scaling Notion’s data lake Notion writes about scaling the data lake by bringing critical data ingestion operations in-house. Hudi seems to be a de facto choice for CDC data lake features. Notion migrated the insert heavy workload from Snowflake to Hudi.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Introducing RudderStack Profiles. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 7, 2024

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data lakes are notoriously complex. And Starburst does all of this on an open architecture with first-class support for Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Hudi, so you always maintain ownership of your data.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 14, 2024

In this episode Oren Eini, CEO and creator of RavenDB, explores the nuances of relational vs. non-relational engines, and the strategies for designing a non-relational database. Data lakes are notoriously complex. How have the requirements and applications of NoSQL engines changed since they first became popular ~15 years ago?

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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 21, 2024

In this episode Tasso Argyros, CEO of ActionIQ, gives a summary of the major epochs in database technologies and how he is applying the capabilities of cloud data warehouses to the challenge of building more comprehensive experiences for end-users through a modern customer data platform (CDP).

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 28, 2024

In this episode he explains the data collection and preparation process, the collection of model types and sizes that work together to power the experience, and how to incorporate it into your workflow to act as a second brain. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this episode Andrew Jefferson explains the complexities of building a robust system for data sharing, the techno-social considerations, and how the Bobsled platform that he is building aims to simplify the process. Support Data Engineering Podcast Summary Sharing data is a simple concept, but complicated to implement well.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 10, 2024

Summary Data lakehouse architectures are gaining popularity due to the flexibility and cost effectiveness that they offer. The link that bridges the gap between data lake and warehouse capabilities is the catalog. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 17, 2024

Validating that the information is stored and processed correctly can be complex and time-consuming, especially when the source and destination speak different dialects of SQL. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/data-council and use code dataengpod20 to register today!

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 5, 2024

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Summary Data Engineering is still a relatively new field that is going through a continued evolution as new technologies are introduced and new requirements are understood. In this episode Maxime Beauchemin returns to revisit what it means to be a data engineer and how the role has changed over the past 5 years.

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He also explains why he started Decodable to address that limitation and the work that he and his team have done to let data engineers build streaming pipelines entirely in SQL. Missing data? Start trusting your data with Monte Carlo today! No more scripts, just SQL. Struggling with broken pipelines?

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

If you need to work with data in your cloud data lake, your on-premise database, or a collection of flat files, then give this episode a listen and then try out Presto today. If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it?

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In this episode Andrey Korchack, CTO of fintech startup Monite, discusses the complexities of designing and implementing a data platform in that sector. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data lakes are notoriously complex.

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