August, 2021

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How Uber Achieves Operational Excellence in the Data Quality Experience

Uber Engineering

Uber delivers efficient and reliable transportation across the global marketplace, which is powered by hundreds of services, machine learning models, and tens of thousands of datasets. While growing rapidly, we’re also committed to maintaining data quality, as it can greatly … The post How Uber Achieves Operational Excellence in the Data Quality Experience appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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How ksqlDB Works: Internal Architecture and Advanced Features

Confluent

To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath […].

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Natural Language Processing: A Guide to NLP Use Cases, Approaches, and Tools

AltexSoft

Humans have been trying to make machines chat for decades. Alan Turing considered computers’ ability to generate natural speech a proof of their ability to think. Today, we converse with virtual companions all the time. But despite years of research and innovation, their unnatural responses remind us that no, we’re not yet at the HAL 9000-level of speech sophistication.

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Understand & Deliver on Your Data Engineering Task

Start Data Engineering

1. Introduction 2. Understanding your data engineering task 2.1. Data infrastructure overview 2.2. What exactly 2.3. Why exactly 2.4. Current state 2.5. Downstream impact 3. Delivering your data engineering task 3.1. How 3.2. Breakdown into sub-tasks 3.3. Delivering the finished task 4. Conclusion 5. Further reading 1. Introduction Congratulations! You are given a quick overview of the business and data architecture and are assigned your very first data engineering task.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.

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Build Trust In Your Data By Understanding Where It Comes From And How It Is Used With Stemma

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary All of the fancy data platform tools and shiny dashboards that you use are pointless if the consumers of your analysis don’t have trust in the answers. Stemma helps you establish and maintain that trust by giving visibility into who is using what data, annotating the reports with useful context, and understanding who is responsible for keeping it up to date.

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A ‘Fresh Squeeze on Data’ to Help Children Learn about Data, AI and Machine Learning

Cloudera

Dear Parents and Educators and Friends of Cloudera, If you are reading this blog, you know us at Cloudera as a group of self-described data geeks and data analysts. We believe data drives better decisions and moves businesses forward and for us, that’s exciting. We are innovating and helping Fortune 500 transform and grow because they can make better data-driven decisions at the accelerated pace we live and work in today.

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Announcing Elastic Data Streams Support for Confluent’s Elasticsearch Sink Connector

Confluent

Today, as part of our expanded partnership with Elastic, we are announcing an update to the fully managed Elasticsearch Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud. This update allows you to take […].

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4 Ways Conversational AI Is Improving the Customer Experience

DataKitchen

The post 4 Ways Conversational AI Is Improving the Customer Experience first appeared on DataKitchen.

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4 Key Patterns to Load Data Into A Data Warehouse

Start Data Engineering

Introduction Patterns 1. Batch Data Pipelines 1.1 Process => Data Warehouse 1.2 Process => Cloud Storage => Data Warehouse 2. Near Real-Time Data pipelines 2.1 Data Stream => Consumer => Data Warehouse 2.2 Cloud Storage => process => Data Warehouse Conclusion Further Reading Introduction Loading data into a data warehouse is a key component of most data pipelines.

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Charting A Path For Streaming Data To Fill Your Data Lake With Hudi

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data lake architectures have largely been biased toward batch processing workflows due to the volume of data that they are designed for. With more real-time requirements and the increasing use of streaming data there has been a struggle to merge fast, incremental updates with large, historical analysis. Vinoth Chandar helped to create the Hudi project while at Uber to address this challenge.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud: A technical deep dive

Cloudera

We just announced Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC), the first cloud-native runtime for Apache NiFi data flows. CDF-PC enables Apache NiFi users to run their existing data flows on a managed, auto-scaling platform with a streamlined way to deploy NiFi data flows and a central monitoring dashboard making it easier than ever before to operate NiFi data flows at scale in the public cloud.

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Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd.

Teradata

Vantage on AWS supports Next Best Action efforts - adding new supplemental coverage on policy renewals at a rate of 250%.

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Designing and Architecting the Confluent CLI

Confluent

It is often difficult enough to build one application that talks to a single middleware or backend layer; e.g., a whole team of frontend engineers may build a web application […].

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Implementing a Pharma Data Mesh using DataOps

DataKitchen

Below is our fourth post (4 of 5) on combining data mesh with DataOps to foster innovation while addressing the challenges of a decentralized architecture. We’ve covered the basic ideas behind data mesh and some of the difficulties that must be managed. Below is a discussion of a data mesh implementation in the pharmaceutical space. For those embarking on the data mesh journey, it may be helpful to discuss a real-world example and the lessons learned from an actual data mesh implementation.

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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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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

Netflix Tech

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In addition, Netflix continuously works with its partners (such as Roku, Samsung, LG, Amazon) to port the Netflix SDK to their new and upcoming devices (TVs, smart boxes, etc), to ensure the quality bar is reached be

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Do Away With Data Integration Through A Dataware Architecture With Cinchy

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The reason that so much time and energy is spent on data integration is because of how our applications are designed. By making the software be the owner of the data that it generates, we have to go through the trouble of extracting the information to then be used elsewhere. The team at Cinchy are working to bring about a new paradigm of software architecture that puts the data as the central element.

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Five Reasons Why Platforms Beat Point Solutions in Every Business Case

Cloudera

Once upon an IT time, everything was a “point product,” a specific application designed to do a single job inside a desktop PC, server, storage array, network, or mobile device. Point solutions are still used every day in many enterprise systems, but as IT continues to evolve, the platform approach beats point solutions in almost every use case.

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The Power of Path Analysis

Teradata

For both analysts and data scientists, identifying paths and patterns in data is a valuable way to gain insight into the occurrences leading to or from any event of interest. Read more.

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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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Driving New Integrations with Confluent and ksqlDB at ACERTUS

Confluent

When companies need help with their vehicle fleets—including transport, storage, or renewing expired registrations—they don’t want to have to deal with multiple vehicle logistics providers. For these companies, ACERTUS provides […].

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How DataOps is Transforming Commercial Pharma Analytics

DataKitchen

DataOps has become an essential methodology in pharmaceutical enterprise data organizations, especially for commercial operations. Companies that implement it well derive significant competitive advantage from their superior ability to manage and create value from data. They will be able to produce high-quality, on-demand insight that consistently leads to successful business decisions.

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Predictive Lead Scoring: Discovering Best-Fit Prospects with Machine Learning

AltexSoft

B2B sales strategies can be roughly divided into two activities: lead generation and lead conversion. It’s clear how each works. The former, attracting visitors to your website and then helping them take certain actions, is almost automated and works through carefully placed calls to action. The latter, supporting a lead to make the purchasing decision, is done by professional sales people with their arsenal of personalized tactics.

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Decoupling Data Operations From Data Infrastructure Using Nexla

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The technological and social ecosystem of data engineering and data management has been reaching a stage of maturity recently. As part of this stage in our collective journey the focus has been shifting toward operation and automation of the infrastructure and workflows that power our analytical workloads. It is an encouraging sign for the industry, but it is still a complex and challenging undertaking.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Choosing Your Upgrade or Migration Path to Cloudera Data Platform

Cloudera

In our previous blog, we talked about the four paths to Cloudera Data Platform. . In-place Upgrade. Sidecar Migration. Rolling Sidecar Migration. Migrating to Cloud. If you haven’t read that yet, we invite you to take a moment and run through the scenarios in that blog. The four strategies will be relevant throughout the rest of this discussion. Today, we’ll discuss an example of how you might make this decision for a cluster using a “round of elimination” process based on our decision workflow.

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Back to School! Time to Ditch the Promotions Calendar?

Teradata

As Back to School promotions hit the shelves, Christmas & New Year offers are already locked in. Are these long-lead cycles still effective in today’s dynamic Retail & CPG environment?

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Announcing the Confluent Q3 ’21 Release

Confluent

The Confluent Q3 ‘21 release is here and packed full of new features that enable the world’s most innovative businesses to continue building what keeps them on top: real-time, mission-critical […].

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Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development with DataOps

DataKitchen

A drug company tests 50,000 molecules and spends a billion dollars or more to find a single safe and effective medicine that addresses a substantial market. Figure 1 shows the 15-year cycle from screening to government agency approval and phase IV trials. Drug companies desperately look for ways to compress this lengthy time frame and to demonstrate the competitive advantage of their intellectual property.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Data Marts: What They Are and Why Businesses Need Them

AltexSoft

Imagine you run a candy store. Some sweets are presented on your display cases for quick access while the rest is kept in the storeroom. Now let’s think of sweets as the data required for your company’s daily operations. Instead of combing through the vast amounts of all organizational data stored in a data warehouse, you can use a data mart — a repository that makes specific pieces of data available quickly to any given business unit.

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Let Your Analysts Build A Data Lakehouse With Cuelake

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data lakes have been gaining popularity alongside an increase in their sophistication and usability. Despite improvements in performance and data architecture they still require significant knowledge and experience to deploy and manage. In this episode Vikrant Dubey discusses his work on the Cuelake project which allows data analysts to build a lakehouse with SQL queries.

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Replace and Boost your Apache Storm Topologies with Apache NiFi Flows

Cloudera

Recently, I worked with a large fortune 500 customer on their migration from Apache Storm to Apache NiFi. If you’re asking yourself, “Isn’t Storm for complex event processing and NiFi for simple event processing?”, you’re correct. A few customers chose a complex event engine like Apache Storm for their simple event processing, even when Apache NiFi is the more practical choice, cutting drastically down on SDLC (software development lifecycle) time.

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Maximizing the 5G Analytics Dividend

Teradata

As 5G puts data analytics at the heart of the next wave of sustainable growth, telcos must ensure their existing investments in data infrastructure can be leveraged to enable that growth.

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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.