July, 2022

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The AIoT Revolution: How AI and IoT Are Transforming Our World

KDnuggets

The AIoT has the potential to transform industries and society, and it is already starting to have an impact. This article will explore the principles of AIoT, its benefits, and its current use.

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4 Must-Have Tests for Your Apache Kafka CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Confluent

Explore GitHub Actions for your Kafka CI/CD pipeline, automate Schema Registry, and transform the development and testing of Kafka client applications.

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Making The Total Cost Of Ownership For External Data Manageable With Crux

Data Engineering Podcast

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. Crux was built to reduce the total cost of acquisition and ownership for integrating external data, offering a fully managed service for delivering those data assets in the manner that best suits your infrastructure.

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Azure Data Factory: How to call REST API?

Azure Data Engineering

Web Activity is the easiest way to call any REST API endpoints within a Data Factory Pipeline. In today’s post, we will discuss the basic settings of Web activity. To create a new web activity , search for ‘web’ in the activities pane. Alternatively, it can be located under the General group in the activities pane. As seen in the screenshot below, the main settings for the web activity are as follows: Azure Data Factory: Web Activity URL: This is the REST API endpoint address that we would like

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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Provoking Consumer-First Analytical Thinking with Drew Smith

Jesse Anderson

My guest this week is Drew Smith , Vice President of Global Data and Analytics at Little Caesars Enterprises and Ilitch Companies. Little Caesars is a pizza franchise that is mainly in the United States. Illitch Companies owns the Detroit Tigers (baseball), Detroit Red Wings (hockey), and several stadiums. Before that, Drew worked at International Institute for Analytics (IIA), an analytics consulting company, and IKEA, the furniture retailer and manufacturer.

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#Clouderalife Volunteer Spotlight: Burt Wagner, Senior Solutions Engineer

Cloudera

This month, Cloudera Cares is excited to spotlight Burt Wagner, senior solutions engineer from Alexandria, Virginia. Burt — who joined Cloudera earlier this year — volunteers regularly with the Boy Scouts of America. He started Scouting as an eight year old; it has always been an integral part of his life and something he now enjoys sharing with his son.

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Teradata is Still the Lowest Cost for Enterprise Analytics

Teradata

Teradata provides the lowest cost per query for enterprise-scale analytics. Have your doubts? Then please read on.

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What "Data Lineage Done Right" Looks Like And How They're Doing It At Manta

Data Engineering Podcast

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. Because of its centrality to your data systems it is valuable for debugging, governance, understanding context, and myriad other purposes. This means that it is important to have an accurate and complete lineage graph so that you don’t have to perform your own detective work when time is in s

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Here’s Why 1k+ Business Analysts Fueled Their Learning Journeys With IIM Indore & Jigsaw

U-Next

In a world that creates 1.145 trillion MB of data per day , change is the only constant. With brand new information being seeded every other second, businesses are evolving at the speed of light. Where there’s data, there’s analytics, and thus, the demand for skilled Business Analysts. Data enthusiasts have stumbled across enough facts and figures to know what’s trending and what’s needed to master these trends, which is why over 1,000 learners hit the road to becoming highly sought-after Busine

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Formulating ‘Out of Memory Kill’ Prediction on the Netflix App as a Machine Learning Problem

Netflix Tech

by Aryan Mehra with Farnaz Karimdady Sharifabad , Prasanna Vijayanathan , Chaïna Wade , Vishal Sharma and Mike Schassberger Aim and Purpose?—?Problem Statement The purpose of this article is to give insights into analyzing and predicting “out of memory” or OOM kills on the Netflix App. Unlike strong compute devices, TVs and set top boxes usually have stronger memory constraints.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Scaling One Peak After Another

Cloudera

Cloudera has appointed Remus Lim as vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan, to drive adoption of the hybrid data platform across the region and support customers in their journey to become more data-driven. We’ve asked him to share his vision for Cloudera in APAC and reflect on his past few months since taking up the mantle. What drew you to the tech space and attracted you to the roles you’ve held?

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Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain Part 5: Biological Neurons Can’t Do Summation of Inputs

KDnuggets

See why biological neurons can’t do the most fundamental process of the artificial perceptron, the summation of inputs.

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The 7 Steps for an Analytics-led Digital Transformation

Teradata

In the current age of AI, all digital transformations must be analytics-led. Learn the 7 steps needed to realize the promise of an analytics-led digital transformation.

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Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis On Petabyte Scale Data Sets With Arkouda

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Exploratory data analysis works best when the feedback loop is fast and iterative. This is easy to achieve when you are working on small datasets, but as they scale up beyond what can fit on a single machine those short iterations quickly become long and tedious. The Arkouda project is a Python interface built on top of the Chapel compiler to bring back those interactive speeds for exploratory analysis on horizontally scalable compute that parallelizes operations on large volumes of data

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Here Is The Most Fun Way Of Obtaining The Illustrious IIM Indore Alumni Status: Integrated Program In Business Analytics

U-Next

Every layer of business operations today uses the power of metrics and analytics to enhance their market growth and business success. With the fourth industrial revolution increasing the dependency on emerging technologies like Data Science, Cloud Computing, IoT, Business Analytics, etc., the need to master the nuances of the same is relatively high.

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Modern Data Flow: A Better Way of Building Data Pipelines

Confluent

Complete guide to data pipelines, data integration, and modern data flow, the key to next generation, data-driven applications, systems, and organizations.

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Beyond Data Fabrics: Cloudera Modern Data Architectures

Cloudera

The need for data fabric. As Cloudera CMO David Moxey outlined in his blog , we live in a hybrid data world. Data is growing and continues to accelerate its growth. It is changing in makeup and appearing in ever more places. Driving insight and value from it all is as much of an opportunity as it is a challenge. As a result, it’s getting ??progressively more complex for businesses to access, use, and create value from it.

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Machine Learning Algorithms Explained in Less Than 1 Minute Each

KDnuggets

Learn about some of the most well known machine learning algorithms in less than a minute each.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Being the Best Digital Bank is Not Enough

Teradata

For many, banking is now a digital activity. But the financial services industry still trails many others in leveraging cloud technologies to build deeper, emotional attachments to their customers.

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Re-Bundling The Data Stack With Data Orchestration And Software Defined Assets Using Dagster

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The current stage of evolution in the data management ecosystem has resulted in domain and use case specific orchestration capabilities being incorporated into various tools. This complicates the work involved in making end-to-end workflows visible and integrated. Dagster has invested in bringing insights about external tools’ dependency graphs into one place through its "software defined assets" functionality.

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Strategies for change data capture in dbt

dbt Developer Hub

There are many reasons you, as an analytics engineer, may want to capture the complete version history of data: You’re in an industry with a very high standard for data governance You need to track big OKRs over time to report back to your stakeholders You want to build a window to view history with both forward and backward compatibility These are often high-stakes situations!

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The Confluent Q3 ’22 Launch: Confluent Terraform Provider, Independent Network Lifecycle Management, and More

Confluent

Newest features in Confluent’s fully managed, cloud-native data streaming platform: Confluent Terraform provider, Independent Network Lifecycle Management, and more.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Why Replicating HBase Data Using Replication Manager is the Best Choice

Cloudera

In this article we discuss the various methods to replicate HBase data and explore why Replication Manager is the best choice for the job with the help of a use case. Cloudera Replication Manager is a key Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) service, designed to copy and migrate data between environments and infrastructures across hybrid clouds. The service provides simple, easy-to-use, and feature-rich data movement capability to deliver data and metadata where it is needed, and has secure data backup

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Data Preparation in R Cheatsheet

KDnuggets

Leverage the powerful data wrangling tools in R’s dplyr to clean and prepare your data.

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Can BigQuery, Snowflake, and Redshift Handle Real-Time Data Analytics?

Rockset

Enterprise data warehouses (EDWs) became necessary in the 1980s when organizations shifted from using data for operational decisions to using data to fuel critical business decisions. Data warehouses differ from operational databases in that while operational transactional databases collate data for multiple transactional purposes, data warehouses aggregate this transactional data for analytics.

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Writing The Book That Offers A Single Reference For The Fundamentals Of Data Engineering

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data engineering is a difficult job, requiring a large number of skills that often don’t overlap. Any effort to understand how to start a career in the role has required stitching together information from a multitude of resources that might not all agree with each other. In order to provide a single reference for anyone tasked with data engineering responsibilities Joe Reis and Matt Housley took it upon themselves to write the book "Fundamentals of Data Engineering" In thi

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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What is Data Lineage?

Databand.ai

What is Data Lineage? Niv Sluzki 2022-07-28 10:20:02 The term “data lineage” has been thrown around a lot over the last few years. What started as an idea of connecting between datasets quickly became a very confusing term that now gets misused often. It’s time to put order to the chaos and dig deep into what it really is. Because the answer matters quite a lot.

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Building Kafka Storage That’s 10x More Scalable and Performant

Confluent

How Confluent built Intelligent Storage, for 10x more scalable and elastic Kafka storage with infinite retention, max cluster uptime, and zero operational burdens.

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Fraud Detection With Cloudera Stream Processing Part 2: Real-Time Streaming Analytics

Cloudera

In part 1 of this blog we discussed how Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC), the universal data distribution service powered by Apache NiFi, can make it easy to acquire data from wherever it originates and move it efficiently to make it available to other applications in a streaming fashion. In this blog we will conclude the implementation of our fraud detection use case and understand how Cloudera Stream Processing makes it simple to create real-time stream processing pipelines that

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12 Essential VSCode Extensions for Data Science

KDnuggets

Learn about the data science VSCode extensions for super productivity and better user experience.

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The Ultimate Guide to Apache Airflow DAGS

With Airflow being the open-source standard for workflow orchestration, knowing how to write Airflow DAGs has become an essential skill for every data engineer. This eBook provides a comprehensive overview of DAG writing features with plenty of example code. You’ll learn how to: Understand the building blocks DAGs, combine them in complex pipelines, and schedule your DAG to run exactly when you want it to Write DAGs that adapt to your data at runtime and set up alerts and notifications Scale you