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Building cost effective data pipelines with Python & DuckDB

Start Data Engineering

Building efficient data pipelines with DuckDB 4.1. Use DuckDB to process data, not for multiple users to access data 4.2. Cost calculation: DuckDB + Ephemeral VMs = dirt cheap data processing 4.3. Processing data less than 100GB? Introduction 2. Project demo 3. Use DuckDB 4.4.

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How to add tests to your data pipelines

Start Data Engineering

Introduction Testing your data pipeline 1. End-to-end system testing 2. Data quality testing 3. Unit and contract testing Conclusion Further reading Introduction Testing data pipelines are different from testing other applications, like a website backend. Monitoring and alerting 4.

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How To Future-Proof Your Data Pipelines

Ascend.io

Why Future-Proofing Your Data Pipelines Matters Data has become the backbone of decision-making in businesses across the globe. The ability to harness and analyze data effectively can make or break a company’s competitive edge. Resilience and adaptability are the cornerstones of a future-proof data pipeline.

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8 Essential Data Pipeline Design Patterns You Should Know

Monte Carlo

Whether it’s customer transactions, IoT sensor readings, or just an endless stream of social media hot takes, you need a reliable way to get that data from point A to point B while doing something clever with it along the way. That’s where data pipeline design patterns come in. Data Mesh Pattern 8.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. This will help you decide whether to build an in-house entity resolution system or utilize an existing solution like the Senzing® API for entity resolution.

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Inside Facebook’s video delivery system

Engineering at Meta

Were explaining the end-to-end systems the Facebook app leverages to deliver relevant content to people. At Facebooks scale, the systems built to support and overcome these challenges require extensive trade-off analyses, focused optimizations, and architecture built to allow our engineers to push for the same user and business outcomes.

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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.