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The Downfall of the Data Engineer

Maxime Beauchemin

This post follows up on The Rise of the Data Engineer , a recent post that was an attempt at defining data engineering and described how this new role relates to historical and modern roles in the data space. In my experience, it’s rare to find any sort of decent dev or test environments in the big data world.

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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

dbt Core is an open-source framework that helps you organise data warehouse SQL transformation. dbt was born out of the analysis that more and more companies were switching from on-premise Hadoop data infrastructure to cloud data warehouses. This switch has been lead by modern data stack vision.

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Functional Data Engineering — a modern paradigm for batch data processing

Maxime Beauchemin

In this post, we’ll explore how applying the functional programming paradigm to data engineering can bring a lot of clarity to the process. This post distills fragments of wisdom accumulated while working at Yahoo, Facebook, Airbnb and Lyft, with the perspective of well over a decade of data warehousing and data engineering experience.

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Databricks, Snowflake and the future

Christophe Blefari

Snowflake was founded in 2012 around its data warehouse product, which is still its core offering, and Databricks was founded in 2013 from academia with Spark co-creator researchers, becoming Apache Spark in 2014. From the start, Snowflake has been a straightforward platform: load data, write SQL, period. What's Iceberg?

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Digital Transformation is a Data Journey From Edge to Insight

Cloudera

Most of what is written though has to do with the enabling technology platforms (cloud or edge or point solutions like data warehouses) or use cases that are driving these benefits (predictive analytics applied to preventive maintenance, financial institution’s fraud detection, or predictive health monitoring as examples) not the underlying data.

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Data Engineering Weekly #120

Data Engineering Weekly

Data Engineering Weekly Is Brought to You by RudderStack RudderStack provides data pipelines that make it easy to collect data from every application, website, and SaaS platform, then activate it in your warehouse and business tools. Perhaps merge Data LakeHouse & Data Warehouse in the next edition?

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Radical Simplicity in Data Engineering

Towards Data Science

Learn from Software Engineers and Discover the Joy of ‘Worse is Better’ Thinking source: unsplash.com Recently, I have had the fortune of speaking to a number of data engineers and data architects about the problems they face with data in their businesses. That was it. So, What the Heck is Radical Simplicity?