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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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Bringing The Power Of The DataHub Real-Time Metadata Graph To Everyone At Acryl Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The binding element of all data work is the metadata graph that is generated by all of the workflows that produce the assets used by teams across the organization. The DataHub project was created as a way to bring order to the scale of LinkedIn’s data needs. How is the governance of DataHub being managed?

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Being Data Driven At Stripe With Trino And Iceberg

Data Engineering Podcast

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data lakes are notoriously complex. what kinds of questions are you answering with table metadata what use case/team does that support comparative utility of iceberg REST catalog What are the shortcomings of Trino and Iceberg?

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An Exploration Of What Data Automation Can Provide To Data Engineers And Ascend's Journey To Make It A Reality

Data Engineering Podcast

Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. Instead of locking your metadata into a new silo, unleash its transformative potential with Atlan’s active metadata capabilities. RudderStack helps you build a customer data platform on your warehouse or data lake.

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Making Sense Of The Technical And Organizational Considerations Of Data Contracts

Data Engineering Podcast

In this episode Abe Gong brings his experiences with the Great Expectations project and community to discuss the technical and organizational considerations involved in implementing these constraints to your data workflows. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. Missing data? Missing data?

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Toward a Data Mesh (part 2) : Architecture & Technologies

François Nguyen

TL;DR After setting up and organizing the teams, we are describing 4 topics to make data mesh a reality. Data As Code is a very strong choice : we do not want any UI because it is an heritage of the ETL period. What you have to code is this workflow ! We want to have our hands free and be totally devoted to devops principles.

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Making The Total Cost Of Ownership For External Data Manageable With Crux

Data Engineering Podcast

Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. Instead of locking your metadata into a new silo, unleash its transformative potential with Atlan’s active metadata capabilities. Modern data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code.