Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 17, 2023

With all the recent data events I have put together I inevitably run into new data engineers who are either finishing up college or looking to transition into a data engineer or data scientist position. In fact I have talked to several newly graduated engineers who are struggling to find work.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Did you know there are only 3 types of Data Engineers? The post The 3 Types of Data Engineers. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy. It’s true. I hope you are the right one.

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Start Data Engineering

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Key parts of data systems: 2.1. Data flow design 2.3. Data processing design 2.5. Data storage design 2.7. Introduction If you are trying to break into (or land a new) data engineering job, you will inevitably encounter a slew of data engineering tools. Introduction 2. Requirements 2.2.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

AUGUST 7, 2024

One thing I find myself doing these days (I am unsure how I feel about this), is teaching others to solve problems … Data Engineering problems to be specific. I […] The post How to Solve Data Engineering Problems appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2023

In the world of data, two crucial roles play a significant part in unlocking the power of information: Data Scientists and Data Engineers. But what sets these wizards of data apart? Welcome to the ultimate showdown of Data Scientist vs Data Engineer! appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, organizations across industries are dealing with massive volumes of data, complex pipelines, and the need for efficient data processing.

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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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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 24, 2023

He is an experienced data engineer with a passion for problem-solving and a drive for continuous growth. Thus, providing valuable insights into the field of data engineering. Introduction We had an amazing opportunity to learn from Mr. Pavan.

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Start Data Engineering

APRIL 22, 2024

Most data projects use Docker to set up the data infra locally (and often in production). Communicate between containers and local OS 2.2.2. Start containers with docker CLI or compose 3. Conclusion 1. Introduction Docker can be overwhelming to start with.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Introduction Data engineering is the field of study that deals with the design, construction, deployment, and maintenance of data processing systems. The goal of this domain is to collect, store, and process data efficiently and efficiently so that it can be used to support business decisions and power data-driven applications.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

APRIL 28, 2024

The funny thing is, at the time, and today, it […] The post Why did Golang lose to Rust for Data Engineering? appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy. When I first wrote a little Golang (~2+ years ago) I was just trying to see what the hype was all about.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JULY 21, 2024

Editor’s Note: A New Series on Data Engineering Tools Evaluation There are plenty of data tools and vendors in the industry. Data Engineering Weekly is launching a new series on software evaluation focused on data engineering to better guide data engineering leaders in evaluating data tools.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Learn the data engineering tools for data orchestration, database management, batch processing, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), data transformation, data visualization, and data streaming.

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Seattle Data Guy

APRIL 19, 2024

How data is structured, managed and processed will continue to grow in importance as the demand for AI and machine learning increase. It’s unavoidable that as businesses demand that their data teams implement AI, they will also realize that data engineers are a crucial piece of the data pipeline.

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Seattle Data Guy

AUGUST 8, 2024

If you work in data, then AI is everywhere at this point. But whether AI is hype or reality doesn’t change the fact that data engineers will play a major role in ensuring that the data sets that are utilized for the growing use cases are usable both by machines and humans.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JULY 28, 2024

Switching from Apache Spark to Ray improves compact 12X larger datasets than Apache Spark, improves cost efficiency by 91%, and processes 13X more data per hour. Adopting LLM in SQL-centric workflow is particularly interesting since companies increasingly try text-2-SQL to boost data usage.

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Start Data Engineering

AUGUST 13, 2024

Data structures and algorithms to know 2.1. Introduction 2. Dictionary 2.3. Counter (from collections module) 2.7. Graph search 2.8.1 Depth First Search (DFS) 2.8.2. Breadth First Search BFS 2.9. Binary Search 3. Common DSA questions asked during DE interviews 3.1. Intervals 3.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Some of the things I’m going to talk about, well … all of it, is probably fairly obvious to most Rust folk, but it’s enjoyable to learn what new […] The post Ownership and Borrowing in Rust – Data Engineering Gold Mine. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 30, 2024

Data engineering is best learned by doing projects. Here are six projects focusing on different data engineering skills to ensure you have it all covered. But which ones?

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Jesse Anderson

JANUARY 29, 2024

The premier of my latest talk covering The State of Data Engineering. This starts with data warehousing and goes into data science. I finish off by showing how data engineering can avoid the same fate as data warehousing and data science.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

APRIL 16, 2023

You might think […] The post DuckDB vs Polars for Data Engineering. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy. I haven’t seen this since Databricks and Snowflake first came out and started throwing mud at each other.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JUNE 24, 2024

Experience Enterprise-Grade Apache Airflow Astro augments Airflow with enterprise-grade features to enhance productivity, meet scalability and availability demands across your data pipelines, and more. A few highlights from the report Unstructured data goes mainstream. AI-driven code development is going mainstream now.

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KDnuggets

JULY 15, 2024

Is it possible to learn data engineering for free? I claim it is and present the evidence for that in the form of 10 free data engineering courses.

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Seattle Data Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Apache Airflow is a very popular tool that data engineers rely on. Why do data engineers like Airflow? What are… Read more The post What Is Apache Airflow – Data Engineering Consulting appeared first on Seattle Data Guy. Also, what does Apache Airflow event do? What is a DAG?

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Jesse Anderson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There has been quite a bit of writing covering GPT and LLMs from data science and business perspectives. I haven’t seen much from the data engineering side. Let me share my perspective, having been in data and AI for a while and using LLMs before they became popular. How can we use LLMs in data engineering?

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 17, 2023

What is the state of data infra? Are data engineers all learning Rust? Our team is putting together an all day event focused on helping answer some… Read more The post What Is The State Of Data Engineering And Infrastructure In 2023 appeared first on Seattle Data Guy. Is everyone switching to DuckDB?

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Jesse Anderson

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They were the first companies to commercialize open source big data technologies and pushed the marketing and commercialization of Hadoop. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. Apache Kafka came in 2011 and gave the industry a much better way to move real-time data.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JUNE 10, 2024

Experience Enterprise-Grade Apache Airflow Astro augments Airflow with enterprise-grade features to enhance productivity, meet scalability and availability demands across your data pipelines, and more. Databricks and Snowflake offer a data warehouse on top of cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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Seattle Data Guy

MAY 20, 2023

Starting new data engineering projects can be challenging. Data engineers can get stuck on finding the right data for their data engineering project or picking the right tools.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JUNE 30, 2024

Experience Enterprise-Grade Apache Airflow Astro augments Airflow with enterprise-grade features to enhance productivity, meet scalability and availability demands across your data pipelines, and more. Looming regulatory requirements, data quality, governance issues & model accuracy keep failing enterprises.

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Data Engineering Weekly

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Astasia Myers: The three components of the unstructured data stack LLMs and vector databases significantly improved the ability to process and understand unstructured data. The blog is an excellent summary of the existing unstructured data landscape. 60+ speakers from LinkedIn, Shopify, Amazon, Lyft, Grammarly, Mistral, et al.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

In the vast world of data, it’s not just about gathering and analyzing information anymore; it’s also about ensuring that data pipelines, processes, and platforms run seamlessly and efficiently.

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Simon Späti

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Will Rust kill Python for Data Engineers? But then again, you have to ask: was Python made for Data Engineering in the first place? Rust may not replace Python outright, but it has consumed more and more of JavaScript tooling and there are increasingly many projects trying to do the same with Python/Data Engineering.

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Simon Späti

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Will Rust kill Python for Data Engineers? But then again, you have to ask: was Python made for Data Engineering in the first place? Rust may not replace Python outright, but it has consumed more and more of JavaScript tooling and there are increasingly many projects trying to do the same with Python/Data Engineering.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

APRIL 30, 2024

The post Reaction to Data Engineering Survey for 2024 appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Data engineering plays a pivotal role in the vast data ecosystem by collecting, transforming, and delivering data essential for analytics, reporting, and machine learning. Aspiring data engineers often seek real-world projects to gain hands-on experience and showcase their expertise.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 12, 2024

The only data engineering roadmap you need for an introduction to concepts, tools, and techniques to collect, store, transform, analyze, and model data.

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