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Data Engineering Best Practices - #2. Metadata & Logging

Start Data Engineering

Data Pipeline Logging Best Practices 3.1. Metadata: Information about pipeline runs, & data flowing through your pipeline 3.2. Introduction 2. Setup & Logging architecture 3. Obtain visibility into the code’s execution sequence using text logs 3.3. Monitoring UI & Traceability 3.5.

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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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Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow

Netflix Tech

by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow.

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Metadata: What Is It and Why it Matters

Ascend.io

Metadata is the information that provides context and meaning to data, ensuring it’s easily discoverable, organized, and actionable. It enhances data quality, governance, and automation, transforming raw data into valuable insights. This is what managing data without metadata feels like. Chaos, right?

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Declarative Data Pipelines with Hoptimator

LinkedIn Engineering

However, we've found that this vertical self-service model doesn't work particularly well for data pipelines, which involve wiring together many different systems into end-to-end data flows. Data pipelines power foundational parts of LinkedIn's infrastructure, including replication between data centers.

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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. There are just not enough hours in a day to do all the data profiling, design, and coding required to build, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot an ever-growing set of data pipelines with transformations.

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Eliminate Friction In Your Data Platform Through Unified Metadata Using OpenMetadata

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary A significant source of friction and wasted effort in building and integrating data management systems is the fragmentation of metadata across various tools. What are the common challenges faced by engineers and data practitioners in organizing the metadata for their systems? What are the goals of the project?

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