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PyArrow vs Polars (vs DuckDB) for Data Pipelines.

Confessions of a Data Guy

I’ve had something rattling around in the old noggin for a while; it’s just another strange idea that I can’t quite shake out. We all keep hearing about Arrow this and Arrow that … seems every new tool built today for Data Engineering seems to be at least partly based on Arrow’s in-memory format. So, […] The post PyArrow vs Polars (vs DuckDB) for Data Pipelines. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Primary Key and Foreign Key constraints are GA and now enable faster queries

databricks

Dataricks is thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Primary Key (PK) and Foreign Key (FK) constraints, starting in Databricks Runtime 15.2.

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Learn Data Analysis with Julia

KDnuggets

Setup the environment, load the data, perform data analysis and visualization, and create the data pipeline all using Julia programming language.

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Zero Downtime Upgrades – Redefining Your Platform Upgrade Experience

Cloudera

Cloudera recently unveiled the latest version of Cloudera Private Cloud Base with the Zero Downtime Upgrade (ZDU) feature to enhance your user experience. The goal of ZDU is to make upgrades simpler for you and your stakeholders by increasing the availability of Cloudera’s services. How Do You Keep IT Infrastructure (and Buses) Running and Avoid Downtime?

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Prepare Now: 2025's Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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5 Tools Every Data Scientist Needs in Their Toolbox in 2024

KDnuggets

From the soft tools to the hard tools, these are what make a data scientist successful.

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Oracle Exits AdTech: What It Means for Your Marketing Strategy

Precisely

Oracle’s recent decision to shut down its advertising business marks a significant shift in the ad tech landscape. This move, driven by declining revenues and increasing regulatory pressures, leaves many advertisers seeking alternative solutions to maintain their marketing momentum while leveraging data that adheres to privacy requirements and aligns with consumers’ expectations.

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Snowflake Universal Search: A Game-Changer for Data Discovery

Hevo

Searching for data manually in Snowflake can be very challenging, time-consuming and sometimes frustrating. Snowflake identifies these problems and has developed Universal Search to change the way we search for data. The universal search, built on a powerful snowflake cortex, is designed to make finding data straightforward.

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Handling Hierarchies in Dimensional Modeling

Towards Data Science

Hierarchies play a crucial role in dimensional modeling for Data Warehouses. See my recommendations on how to handle them effectively.

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Avro vs Parquet: Which File Format is Right for You?

Hevo

While working with huge amounts of data, Data serialization plays an important role in the performance of the system. Data Serialization converts complex data structures, such as graphs, trees, etc., into a format that can be easily stored or transmitted over the network or across different distributed systems and programming languages.

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Why Businesses Need Cyber Security Awareness Training

Edureka

For almost any business to remain competitive in their industry, modern technology is a must. This may even involve storing confidential business data and processes on cloud computing systems. Although digital transformation presents benefits for businesses, it also introduces new risks that require effective management. The possibility of a ransomware attack is one risk that needs to be controlled with Cybersecurity awareness.

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Changing the Game with MES: Cut Costs, Drive Efficiency, & Achieve Sustainability Goals!

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

In an era where efficiency is king, are you leveraging the right tools to transform your manufacturing processes? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is critical for enhancing operational efficiency, reducing waste, and optimizing energy usage—key factors for improving your bottom line and lowering your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, a manufacturing technology expert with 18+ years of hands-on experience, in this new webinar as he uncovers the secrets of MES and how to best utilize thes

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How Snowflake Accelerates Business Growth for Providers of Data, Apps and AI Products 

Snowflake

Let’s say you are building a house that you plan to put up for sale. You focus on an amazing design, beautiful entry, large windows for plenty of sunlight — things that will create a delightful experience for your future buyer. At the same time, the house also needs less glamorous but vitally important infrastructure, like plumbing, running water, electricity, heating, cooling and so on.

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Node.js and the tale of worker threads

Zalando Engineering

A disrupted gaming night I do not usually read code when dealing with production incidents, as it is one of the slower ways to understand and mitigate what is happening. But on that Friday night, I was glad I did. I was about to start another session of Elden Ring (a video game in which everything is pretty much trying to kill the player) when I was paged with the following: "campaign service is consuming all resources we throw at it".

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Snowflake Accelerates Business Growth for Data, Apps and AI Products

Snowflake

Let’s say you are building a house that you plan to put up for sale. You focus on an amazing design, beautiful entry, large windows for plenty of sunlight — things that will create a delightful experience for your future buyer. At the same time, the house also needs less glamorous but vitally important infrastructure, like plumbing, running water, electricity, heating, cooling and so on.

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Celebrating Empowerment: Robinhood Market’s Women in Tech Conference 2024

Robinhood

Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information and investing. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in. … Recently, Robinhood Markets hosted its highly anticipated Annual Women in Tech (WIT) Conference, a day-long event designed to empower and inspi

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Snowflake Cortex AI Launches Cortex Guard to Implement LLM Safeguards

Snowflake

Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.

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Snowflake Cortex AI Launches Cortex Guard for LLM Safeguards

Snowflake

Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.