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Octopai Acquisition Enhances Metadata Management to Trust Data Across Entire Data Estate

Cloudera

In today’s heterogeneous data ecosystems, integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources presents several obstacles: data often exists in various formats, with inconsistencies in definitions, structures, and quality standards. This automated data catalog always provides up-to-date inventory of assets that never get stale.

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How Apache Iceberg Is Changing the Face of Data Lakes

Snowflake

Iceberg tables become interoperable while maintaining ACID compliance by adding a layer of metadata to the data files in a users object storage. An external catalog tracks the latest table metadata and helps ensure consistency across multiple readers and writers. Put simply: Iceberg is metadata.

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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

You can also add metadata on models (in YAML). In a nutshell the dbt journey starts with sources definition on which you will define models that will transform these sources to something else you'll need in your downstream usage of the data. You can read dbt's official definitions.

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Modern Data Architecture: Data Mesh and Data Fabric 101

Precisely

While data products may have different definitions in different organizations, in general it is seen as data entity that contains data and metadata that has been curated for a specific business purpose. A data fabric weaves together different data management tools, metadata, and automation to create a seamless architecture.

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Modern Data Governance: Trends for 2025

Precisely

Key Takeaways: Prioritize metadata maturity as the foundation for scalable, impactful data governance. The past year brought significant changes, from the growing importance of metadata maturity to the increasing convergence of data governance and data quality practices. How can you further improve your strategy moving forward?

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How Meta understands data at scale

Engineering at Meta

This diversity created a unique hurdle for offline assets: the inability to reuse schemas due to the limitations of physical table schemas in adapting to changing definitions. Each product features its own distinct data model, physical schema, query language, and access patterns. Creating a canonical representation for compliance tools.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

Netflix Tech

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. While this is a critical business need and we definitely should solve it, its essential to evaluate how it stacks up against other priorities across different areas of the organization.