Uber Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2018

From driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data.

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Metadata Big Data Transportation Data 110

Cloudera

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In this blog post, we compare Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Apache Hive-LLAP to EMR 6.0 (also powered by Apache Hive-LLAP) on Amazon using the TPC-DS 2.9 CDW is an analytic offering for Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Cloudera Data Warehouse vs EMR.

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Data Warehouse Metadata Datasets Machine Learning 110

Snowflake

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Together with a dozen experts and leaders at Snowflake, I have done exactly that, and today we debut the result: the “ Snowflake Data + AI Predictions 2024 ” report. When you’re running a large language model, you need observability into how the model may change as it ingests new data. The next evolution in data is making it AI ready.

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Unstructured Data Data Lake Deep Learning Structured Data 94

Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse.

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Data Warehouse Metadata Algorithm Data 84

Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Summary Managing a data warehouse can be challenging, especially when trying to maintain a common set of patterns. With 200Gbit private networking, scalable shared block storage, and a 40Gbit public network, you’ve got everything you need to run a fast, reliable, and bullet-proof data platform.

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Data Warehouse PostgreSQL AWS Programming Language 100

Netflix Tech

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By Tianlong Chen and Ioannis Papapanagiotou Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy.

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. No more scripts, just SQL.

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Metadata BI Data Warehouse Government 100

Cloudera

JANUARY 15, 2021

Cloud data warehouses allow users to run analytic workloads with greater agility, better isolation and scale, and lower administrative overhead than ever before. The results demonstrate superior price performance of Cloudera Data Warehouse on the full set of 99 queries from the TPC-DS benchmark. Introduction. higher cost.

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Data Warehouse Cloud Consulting SQL 96

Data Engineering Weekly

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Editor’s Note: Launching Data & Gen-AI courses in 2025 I can’t believe DEW will reach almost its 200th edition soon. What I started as a fun hobby has become one of the top-rated newsletters in the data engineering industry. We are planning many exciting product lines to trial and launch in 2025.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Insurance 57

Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Were sharing how Meta built support for data logs, which provide people with additional data about how they use our products. Here we explore initial system designs we considered, an overview of the current architecture, and some important principles Meta takes into account in making data accessible and easy to understand.

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Accessible Accessibility Raw Data Data Warehouse 80

Cloudera

MAY 17, 2021

Making a decision on a cloud data warehouse is a big deal. Modernizing your data warehousing experience with the cloud means moving from dedicated, on-premises hardware focused on traditional relational analytics on structured data to a modern platform.

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Data Warehouse Cloud Government Metadata 90

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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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering PostgreSQL 147

Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Three Zero-Cost Solutions That Take Hours, NotMonths A data quality certified pipeline. Source: unsplash.com In my career, data quality initiatives have usually meant big changes. Whats more, fixing the data quality issues this way often leads to new problems. Create a custom dashboard for your specific data qualityproblem.

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PostgreSQL Data Python SQL 75

Christophe Blefari

JUNE 21, 2024

This year, the Snowflake Summit was held in San Francisco from June 2 to 5, while the Databricks Data+AI Summit took place 5 days later, from June 10 to 13, also in San Francisco. Using a quick semantic analysis, "The" means both want to be THE platform you need when you're doing data.

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Metadata Data Warehouse BI MySQL 147

phData: Data Engineering

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The world we live in today presents larger datasets, more complex data, and diverse needs, all of which call for efficient, scalable data systems. Open Table Format (OTF) architecture now provides a solution for efficient data storage, management, and processing while ensuring compatibility across different platforms.

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Architecture Systems Data Lake Google Cloud 52

Maxime Beauchemin

JANUARY 7, 2018

Batch data processing  — historically known as ETL —  is extremely challenging. In this post, we’ll explore how applying the functional programming paradigm to data engineering can bring a lot of clarity to the process. It’s time-consuming, brittle, and often unrewarding. Not only that, it’s hard to operate, evolve, and troubleshoot.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Data Process Process 183

Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 5, 2025

The modern data stack constantly evolves, with new technologies promising to solve age-old problems like scalability, cost, and data silos. It promised to address key pain points: Scaling: Handling ever-increasing data volumes. Speed: Accelerating data insights. Data Silos: Breaking down barriers between data sources.

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Hadoop Metadata Data Ingestion Data Governance 57

Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Summary Cloud data warehouses have unlocked a massive amount of innovation and investment in data applications, but they are still inherently limiting. Because of their complete ownership of your data they constrain the possibilities of what data you can store and how it can be used. We feel your pain.

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IT Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse 147

Cloudera

APRIL 3, 2023

Cloudera Contributors: Ayush Saxena, Tamas Mate, Simhadri Govindappa Since we announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), we are excited to see customers testing their analytic workloads on Iceberg. We will publish follow up blogs for other data services. To compact the tables use CDE Spark.

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Data Warehouse Java Metadata Data 82

Maxime Beauchemin

JANUARY 20, 2017

By the time I left in 2013, I was a data engineer. We were data engineers! Data Engineering? Data science as a discipline was going through its adolescence of self-affirming and defining itself. At the same time, data engineering was the slightly younger sibling, but it was going through something similar.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering ETL Tools 130

Maxime Beauchemin

AUGUST 28, 2017

This post follows up on The Rise of the Data Engineer , a recent post that was an attempt at defining data engineering and described how this new role relates to historical and modern roles in the data space. The data warehouse needs to reflect the business, and the business should have clarity on how it thinks about analytics.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Summary One of the reasons that data work is so challenging is because no single person or team owns the entire process. This introduces friction in the process of collecting, processing, and using data. In order to reduce the potential for broken pipelines some teams have started to adopt the idea of data contracts.

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Metadata Business Intelligence Data Lake BI 130

Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 13, 2022

Summary Data is useless if it isn’t being used, and you can’t use it if you don’t know where it is. Data catalogs were the first solution to this problem, but they are only helpful if you know what you are looking for. Data stacks are becoming more and more complex. Sifflet also offers a 2-week free trial.

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Metadata MongoDB MySQL Scala 100

François Nguyen

MARCH 22, 2021

TL;DR After setting up and organizing the teams, we are describing 4 topics to make data mesh a reality. TL;DR After setting up and organizing the teams, we are describing 4 topics to make data mesh a reality. How do we build data products ? How can we interoperate between the data domains ?

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Technology Architecture Google Cloud Metadata 130

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Today’s customers have a growing need for a faster end to end data ingestion to meet the expected speed of insights and overall business demand. This ‘need for speed’ drives a rethink on building a more modern data warehouse solution, one that balances speed with platform cost management, performance, and reliability.

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Data Warehouse Cloud Kafka Cloud Storage 72

Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2022

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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Data Pipeline Scala Metadata Food 144

Striim

MARCH 21, 2025

Since the value of data quickly drops over time, organizations need a way to analyze data as it is generated. To avoid disruptions to operational databases, companies typically replicate data to data warehouses for analysis. What is Change Data Capture?

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IT Data Lake Data Warehouse Relational Database 52

Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 19, 2022

Summary Data analysis is a valuable exercise that is often out of reach of non-technical users as a result of the complexity of data systems. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. Modern data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code.

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Metadata Unstructured Data MongoDB MySQL 130

Cloudera

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Why worry about costs with cloud-native data warehousing? Have you been burned by the unexpected costs of a cloud data warehouse? If not, before adopting a cloud data warehouse, consider the true costs of a cloud-native data warehouse. These costs impede the adoption of cloud-native data warehouses.

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Data Warehouse Cloud Storage Metadata Data 98

Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 17, 2022

Summary There are extensive and valuable data sets that are available outside the bounds of your organization. Whether that data is public, paid, or scraped it requires investment and upkeep to acquire and integrate it with your systems. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Summary The majority of blog posts and presentations about data engineering and analytics assume that the consumers of those efforts are internal business users accessing an environment controlled by the business. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

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Systems Metadata Data Pipeline MongoDB 130

Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The solution to discoverability and tracking of data lineage is to incorporate a metadata repository into your data platform. The metadata repository serves as a data catalog and a means of reporting on the health and status of your datasets when it is properly integrated into the rest of your tools.

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Metadata PostgreSQL Datasets Data Warehouse 100

Sync Computing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Data is central to modern business and society. Depending on what sort of leaky analogy you prefer, data can be the new oil , gold , or even electricity. Of course, even the biggest data sets are worthless, and might even be a liability, if they arent organized properly.

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Data Lake Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Unstructured Data 52

Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Summary Building a well managed data ecosystem for your organization requires a holistic view of all of the producers, consumers, and processors of information. The team at Metaphor are building a fully connected metadata layer to provide both technical and social intelligence about your data. Missing data?

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Systems Building Metadata Data Warehouse 100

Monte Carlo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Data powers the modern tech industry. This truth was hammered home recently when ride-hailing giant Uber found itself on the receiving end of a staggering €290 million ($324 million) fine from the Dutch Data Protection Authority. Table of Contents What is Data Warehouse Governance? The reason?

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Data Warehouse Government Data Governance Metadata 52

Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 17, 2021

Summary Working with unstructured data has typically been a motivation for a data lake. Kirk Marple has spent years working with data systems and the media industry, which inspired him to build a platform for automatically organizing your unstructured assets to make them more valuable. No more scripts, just SQL.

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Unstructured Data Data Warehouse Metadata Media 100

Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Summary Making effective use of data requires proper context around the information that is being used. Rehgan Avon co-founded AlignAI to help address this challenge through a more purposeful platform designed to collect and distribute the knowledge of how and why data is used in a business. Missing data? Stale dashboards?

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