Seattle Data Guy

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By Reseun McClendon Today, your enterprise must effectively collect, store, and integrate data from disparate sources to both provide operational and analytical benefits. Whether its helping increase revenue by finding new customers or reducing costs, all of it starts with data.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A comparative overview of data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts to help you make informed decisions on data storage solutions for your data architecture.

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Data Lake Data Warehouse Data Storage Data 131

Start Data Engineering

MAY 11, 2022

Data lake structure 5. Loading user purchase data into the data warehouse 5.2 Loading classified movie review data into the data warehouse 5.3 Introduction 2. Objective 3. Prerequisite 4.2 AWS Infrastructure costs 4.3 Code walkthrough 5.1 Generating user behavior metric 5.4. Checking results 6.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As advanced analytics and AI continue to drive enterprise strategy, leaders are tasked with building flexible, resilient data pipelines that accelerate trusted insights. For enterprises, the challenge now is not just rapid deployment; it’s about building trusted, iterative processes that ensure high-quality and actionable data at scale.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 3, 2021

Summary Data lake architectures have largely been biased toward batch processing workflows due to the volume of data that they are designed for. With more real-time requirements and the increasing use of streaming data there has been a struggle to merge fast, incremental updates with large, historical analysis.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Summary A data lakehouse is intended to combine the benefits of data lakes (cost effective, scalable storage and compute) and data warehouses (user friendly SQL interface). Data lakes are notoriously complex. Join in with the event for the global data community, Data Council Austin.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In that time there have been a number of generational shifts in how data engineering is done. Parting Question From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today? Materialize]([link] Looking for the simplest way to get the freshest data possible to your teams?

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

How and why the data lake architecture often fails to meet its promises. And how better governance helps mitigate such challenges.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JULY 7, 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. Hudi seems to be a de facto choice for CDC data lake features. Notion migrated the insert heavy workload from Snowflake to Hudi.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 4, 2023

Summary A significant portion of the time spent by data engineering teams is on managing the workflows and operations of their pipelines. Agile Data Engine is a platform designed to handle the infrastructure side of the DataOps equation, as well as providing the insights that you need to manage the human side of the workflow.

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Data Engineering Weekly

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: Coming Next on Comparison Matrix Series - Data LakeHouse Our mission is to empower data professionals and organizations to make informed, data-driven decisions by providing a comprehensive buyer's guide and comparison matrix for selecting the best data tools.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Over the years, the technology landscape for data management has given rise to various architecture patterns, each thoughtfully designed to cater to specific use cases and requirements. These patterns include both centralized storage patterns like data warehouse , data lake and data lakehouse , and distributed patterns such as data mesh.

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Data Lake Data Warehouse Cloud Unstructured Data 94

Towards Data Science

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data Access API over Data Lake Tables Without the Complexity Build a robust GraphQL API service on top of your S3 data lake files with DuckDB and Go Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash 1. This data might be primarily used for internal reporting, but might also be valuable for other services in our organization.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Summary One of the perennial challenges posed by data lakes is how to keep them up to date as new data is collected. In this episode Ori Rafael shares his experiences from Upsolver and building scalable stream processing for integrating and analyzing data, and what the tradeoffs are when coming from a batch oriented mindset.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 22, 2022

Summary Machine learning has become a meaningful target for data applications, bringing with it an increase in the complexity of orchestrating the entire data flow. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform.

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Hevo

JULY 25, 2024

A data lake is a central storage place for an organization’s data in its original format. Unlike data warehouses, data lakes can handle all kinds of data, including unstructured and semi-structured data like images, video, audio, and documents.

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Data Engineering Weekly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Uber: DataMesh - How Uber laid the foundations for the Data Lake Cloud migration Many companies are slowly adopting DataMesh, and Uber writes about adopting the data mesh principle. Whether or not Data Mesh is a separate product is debatable, but it is certainly an impactful framework for scaling data platforms.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A Glossary with Use Cases for First-Timers in Data Engineering An happy Data Engineer at work Are you a data engineering rookie interested in knowing more about modern data infrastructures? In this guide Data Engineering meets Formula 1. I bet you are, this article is for you!

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Your data engineering pipeline started simple: a few CSV exports, some Python scripts, and manual updates every week. You’re left wondering if there’s a breaking point where your DIY data solution won’t cut it anymore—and honestly, you might be there already. It means you’re scaling!

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Knowledge Hut

JULY 5, 2024

In my experience, data silos have emerged as a significant challenge for organizations. Large enterprises heavily rely on data for informed decision-making, and this reliance is where data engineers step in. Data engineers like myself play a pivotal role in assessing infrastructure and taking relevant actions.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 16, 2023

In this article, we will discuss the benefits of using SQL with a data lake and how it can help organizations unlock the full potential of their data.

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Data Engineering Weekly

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

To identify express queries, we developed a method using historical data to predict whether an upcoming query is an express query. The blog is an excellent overview of building dynamic data pipelines with Airflow datasets and pub/sub. Uber writes about express queries , such as any Presto query, that can be finished within 2 minutes.

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Hevo

JULY 23, 2024

The term “Data Lake” was first introduced by James Dixon in 2010 as a form of storage to cope with evolving data needs due to advancements in IT and IoT. The close of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century saw an influx of new digital tools like the mobile phone and smart […]

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 15, 2022

Summary Designing a data platform is a complex and iterative undertaking which requires accounting for many conflicting needs. Designing a platform that relies on a data lake as its central architectural tenet adds additional layers of difficulty. Missing data? Struggling with broken pipelines? Stale dashboards?

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 1, 2020

Summary Data lakes offer a great deal of flexibility and the potential for reduced cost for your analytics, but they also introduce a great deal of complexity. What used to be entirely managed by the database engine is now a composition of multiple systems that need to be properly configured to work in concert.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

Summary The current trend in data management is to centralize the responsibilities of storing and curating the organization’s information to a data engineering team. This organizational pattern is reinforced by the architectural pattern of data lakes as a solution for managing storage and access.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 16, 2024

Summary Stripe is a company that relies on data to power their products and business. In this episode Kevin Liu shares some of the interesting features that they have built by combining those technologies, as well as the challenges that they face in supporting the myriad workloads that are thrown at this layer of their data platform.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 18, 2024

Summary The purpose of business intelligence systems is to allow anyone in the business to access and decode data to help them make informed decisions. The team at Zenlytic have leaned on the promise of large language models to build an AI agent that lets you converse with your data. Data lakes are notoriously complex.

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Building Data Lake High Quality Data Business Intelligence 278

Data Engineering Weekly

APRIL 21, 2024

Meta: Introducing Meta Llama 3 - The most capable openly available LLM to date Meta is taking an interesting approach in the growing LLM market with the open source approach and distribution across all the leading cloud providers and data platforms. Counting is the hardest problem in data engineering.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Summary Data lakes are gaining popularity due to their flexibility and reduced cost of storage. Along with the benefits there are some additional complexities to consider, including how to safely integrate new data sources or test out changes to existing pipelines.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In this episode Yingjun Wu explains how it is architected to power analytical workflows on continuous data flows, and the challenges of making it responsive and scalable. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data lakes are notoriously complex.

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Summary The Presto project has become the de facto option for building scalable open source analytics in SQL for the data lake. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 30, 2024

Petr shares his journey from being an engineer to founding Synq, emphasizing the importance of treating data systems with the same rigor as engineering systems. He discusses the challenges and solutions in data reliability, including the need for transparency and ownership in data systems.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 10, 2024

Summary Data lakehouse architectures are gaining popularity due to the flexibility and cost effectiveness that they offer. The link that bridges the gap between data lake and warehouse capabilities is the catalog. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Your first 30 days are free! Want to see Starburst in action?

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Data Lake High Quality Data Architecture Data Pipeline 147

Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 24, 2024

Summary A core differentiator of Dagster in the ecosystem of data orchestration is their focus on software defined assets as a means of building declarative workflows. Data lakes are notoriously complex. Your first 30 days are free! Want to see Starburst in action? What problems are you trying to solve with Dagster+?

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Data Lake High Quality Data Hadoop Data Pipeline 162

Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 21, 2024

A substantial amount of the data that is being managed in these systems is related to customers and their interactions with an organization. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data lakes are notoriously complex.

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Data Lake High Quality Data NoSQL Data Warehouse 147

Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 7, 2024

Summary Maintaining a single source of truth for your data is the biggest challenge in data engineering. Different roles and tasks in the business need their own ways to access and analyze the data in the organization. Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines.

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