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

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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Systems Data Lake Google Cloud 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

Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It’s easy these days for an organization’s data infrastructure to begin looking like a maze, with an accumulation of point solutions here and there. Snowflake is committed to doing just that by continually adding features to help our customers simplify how they architect their data infrastructure. Here’s a closer look.

Data Architecture 105

Data Architecture Architecture Data Lake Kafka 105

Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Summary There are a wealth of options for managing structured and textual data, but unstructured binary data assets are not as well supported across the ecosystem. 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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Unstructured Data Cloud Management Metadata 100

Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 26, 2022

Summary The proliferation of sensors and GPS devices has dramatically increased the number of applications for spatial data, and the need for scalable geospatial analytics. 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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phData: Data Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In an effort to better understand where data governance is heading, we spoke with top executives from IT, healthcare, and finance to hear their thoughts on the biggest trends, key challenges, and what insights they would recommend. With that, let’s get into the governance trends for data leaders! Want to Save This Guide for Later?

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Government Data Governance Finance Metadata 52

Cloudyard

MARCH 30, 2023

Read Time: 2 Minute, 30 Second For instance, Consider a scenario where we have unstructured data in our cloud storage. However, Unstructured I assume : PDF,JPEG,JPG,Images or PNG files. Directory tables metadata should be refreshed automatically when underlying stage gets updated.

Unstructured Data 52

Unstructured Data Accessible Accessibility Cloud Storage 52

AltexSoft

MAY 12, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, organizations amass vast amounts of information that can unlock significant insights and inform decision-making. A staggering 80 percent of this digital treasure trove is unstructured data, which lacks a pre-defined format or organization. What is unstructured data?

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Unstructured Data NoSQL Hadoop Data Lake 59

Snowflake

JULY 25, 2024

Snowflake Cortex Search, a fully managed search service for documents and other unstructured data, is now in public preview. Solving the challenges of building high-quality RAG applications From the beginning, Snowflake’s mission has been to empower customers to extract more value from their data.

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Unstructured Data Metadata Government SQL 128

Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 12, 2022

Summary Building a well rounded and effective data team is an iterative process, and the first hire can set the stage for future success or failure. Trupti Natu has been the first data hire multiple times and gone through the process of building teams across the different stages of growth.

Metadata 100

Metadata Unstructured Data Business Intelligence MongoDB 100

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 111

Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 12, 2025

With Astro, you can build, run, and observe your data pipelines in one place, ensuring your mission critical data is delivered on time. link] Sponsored: Apache Airflow® Best Practices: Running Airflow at Scale The scalability of Airflow is why data teams at companies like Uber, Ford, and LinkedIn choose it to power their data ops.

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Pipeline-centric Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering 57

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.

Data Engineering 109

Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Google Cloud 109

Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In this blog, I will demonstrate the value of Cloudera DataFlow (CDF) , the edge-to-cloud streaming data platform available on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) , as a Data integration and Democratization fabric. Introduction to the Data Mesh Architecture and its Required Capabilities. Components of a Data Mesh.

Architecture 124

Architecture Metadata Kafka Government 124

Rockset

APRIL 18, 2023

Organizations have continued to accumulate large quantities of unstructured data, ranging from text documents to multimedia content to machine and sensor data. Comprehending and understanding how to leverage unstructured data has remained challenging and costly, requiring technical depth and domain expertise.

Unstructured Data 105

Unstructured Data Metadata Machine Learning SQL 105

Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 31, 2022

Summary Data lineage is the roadmap for your data platform, providing visibility into all of the dependencies for any report, machine learning model, or data warehouse table that you are working with. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

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IT Metadata MongoDB MySQL 100

Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

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IT Unstructured Data Data Architecture Government 112

Towards Data Science

APRIL 6, 2023

Principles, practices, and examples for ensuring high quality data flows Source: DreamStudio (generated by author) Nearly 100% of companies today rely on data to power business opportunities and 76% use data as an integral part of forming a business strategy. Data quality is critical to delivering good customer experiences.

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Unstructured Data Metadata Data Coding 98

The Modern Data Company

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Modern Data Company has been given an honorable mention in Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration. In response, The Modern Data Company emerged, driven by a clear mission: to revolutionize data management and address challenges posed by a diverse and rapidly evolving data environment.

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Data Integration Metadata Government Unstructured Data 98

Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Summary The data ecosystem has been growing rapidly, with new communities joining and bringing their preferred programming languages to the mix. This has led to inefficiencies in how data is stored, accessed, and shared across process and system boundaries. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. Missing data?

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Data Process Process Metadata Business Intelligence 100

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The promise of a modern data lakehouse architecture. Imagine having self-service access to all business data, anywhere it may be, and being able to explore it all at once. Imagine quickly answering burning business questions nearly instantly, without waiting for data to be found, shared, and ingested. According to Gartner, Inc.

Architecture 102

Architecture Metadata Machine Learning Unstructured Data 102

Snowflake

JUNE 4, 2024

Generative AI presents enterprises with the opportunity to extract insights at scale from unstructured data sources, like documents, customer reviews and images. It also presents an opportunity to reimagine every customer and employee interaction with data to be done via conversational applications.

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Data Security Machine Learning Unstructured Data SQL 116

The Modern Data Company

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Modern Data Company has been given an honorable mention in Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration. In response, The Modern Data Company emerged, driven by a clear mission: to revolutionize data management and address challenges posed by a diverse and rapidly evolving data environment.

Data Integration 87

Data Integration Metadata Government Unstructured Data 87

Snowflake

JULY 10, 2023

With this new Snowpark capability, data engineers and data scientists can process any type of file directly in Snowflake, regardless if files are stored in Snowflake-managed storage or externally. Previously, working with these large and complex files would require a unique set of tools, creating data silos.

Unstructured Data 40

Unstructured Data Python Process Scala 40

Cloudera

APRIL 1, 2024

This recognition underscores Cloudera’s commitment to continuous customer innovation and validates our ability to foresee future data and AI trends, and our strategy in shaping the future of data management. Cloudera, a leader in big data analytics, provides a unified Data Platform for data management, AI, and analytics.

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Cloud Unstructured Data Metadata Government 105

Data Engineering Weekly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As we reflect on 2024, the data engineering landscape has undergone significant transformations driven by technological advancements, changing business needs, and the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence. This comprehensive analysis examines the key trends and patterns that shaped data engineering practices throughout the year.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Unstructured Data 62

Snowflake

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Data cloud technology can accelerate FAIRification of the world’s biomedical patient data. In other instances, the concern is primarily the risk of potential patient re-identification that comes with longitudinal data enrichment.

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Metadata Healthcare Medical Data Storage 102

Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How to build a modern, scalable data platform to power your analytics and data science projects (updated) Table of Contents: What’s changed? The Platform Integration Data Store Transformation Orchestration Presentation Transportation Observability Closing What’s changed? Over the last three years, my life has changed as well.

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Building Transportation Data Lake Metadata 98

Towards Data Science

AUGUST 10, 2023

Experts from venture capital, Snowflake, and more discuss how generative AI will benefit data teams and the challenges they must solve. Still, generating a recipe for lasagna is an entirely different process than infusing generative AI capabilities across a business or integrating large language models (LLMs) into data engineering workflows.

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IT Unstructured Data SQL BI 98

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We needed a solution to manage our data at scale, to provide greater experiences to our customers. With Cloudera Data Platform, we aim to unlock value faster and offer consistent data security and governance to meet this goal. HBL aims to double its banked customers by 2025. “ Smooth, hassle-free deployment in just six weeks.

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Banking Management Data Lake Professional Services 85

Netflix Tech

MARCH 10, 2023

We built an asset management platform (AMP), codenamed Amsterdam , in order to easily organize and manage the metadata, schema, relations and permissions of these assets. And more specifically, how we index and query over 7TB of data in a read-heavy and continuously growing environment and keep our Elasticsearch cluster healthy.

Management 108

Management Metadata Digital Media Kafka 108

AltexSoft

JUNE 7, 2021

Hadoop and Spark are the two most popular platforms for Big Data processing. They both enable you to deal with huge collections of data no matter its format — from Excel tables to user feedback on websites to images and video files. Which Big Data tasks does Spark solve most effectively? How does it work? cost-effectiveness.

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Big Data Tools Hadoop Big Data Database-centric 98

Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

On top of this foundation, the Hazelcast team has also built a streaming platform for reliable high throughput data transmission. In this episode Dale Kim shares how Hazelcast is implemented, the use cases that it enables, and how it complements on-disk data management systems.

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Process Unstructured Data Metadata Data Engineering 100

Cloudera

MARCH 17, 2023

As the use of ChatGPT becomes more prevalent, I frequently encounter customers and data users citing ChatGPT’s responses in their discussions. I love the enthusiasm surrounding ChatGPT and the eagerness to learn about modern data architectures such as data lakehouses, data meshes, and data fabrics.

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Education Unstructured Data Data Lake Data Warehouse 64

Striim

MARCH 4, 2025

Have you ever wondered how the biggest brands in the world falter when it comes to data security? Their breach transformed personal customer data into a commodity traded on dark web forums. They react too slowly, too rigidly, and cant keep pace with the dynamic, sophisticated attacks occurring today, leaving hackable data exposed.

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Data Governance Government Healthcare NoSQL 40

Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To differentiate and expand the usefulness of these models, organizations must augment them with first-party data – typically via a process called RAG (retrieval augmented generation). Today, this first-party data mostly lives in two types of data repositories. Quality : Is the data itself anomalous?

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Database Unstructured Data Data Pipeline Metadata 72