May, 2020

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Change Data Capture Using Debezium Kafka and Pg

Start Data Engineering

Change data capture is a software design pattern used to capture changes to data and take corresponding action based on that change. The change to data is usually one of read, update or delete. The corresponding action usually is supposed to occur in another system in response to the change that was made in the source system.

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Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency

Confluent

Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […].

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Tips on Data Science Masters in Germany

Team Data Science

Should you do a masters degree in data science in Germany? Why not, but keep the following in mind! In general, it is very, very practical in Germany because it doesn't cost a lot of money to study. Not like for example in the USA or something like that. So if you are interested in it, you should first think about what the corresponding Master's programme is about.

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COVID-19: Risk Analytics for Building an Early Warning System

Teradata

Advanced analytics & AI techniques can help in curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic. This post describes an analytics prototype to build an early warning system for COVID-19.

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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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Mapping The Customer Journey For B2B Companies At Dreamdata

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Gaining a complete view of the customer journey is especially difficult in B2B companies. This is due to the number of different individuals involved and the myriad ways that they interface with the business. Dreamdata integrates data from the multitude of platforms that are used by these organizations so that they can get a comprehensive view of their customer lifecycle.

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Hyper Scale VPC Flow Logs enrichment to provide Network Insight

Netflix Tech

How Netflix is able to enrich VPC Flow Logs at Hyper Scale to provide Network Insight By Hariharan Ananthakrishnan and Angela Ho The Cloud Network Infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today is a large distributed ecosystem that consists of specialized functional tiers and services such as DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc.

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Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and ksqlDB

Confluent

Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […].

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Jupyter Notebooks or Standalone Scripts?

Team Data Science

Lot's of people like notebooks and so do I. Jupyter Notebooks for instance, are great to quickly explore some data or try something out. If you want to bring code into production however, you should or most likely, have to write standalone scripts. If you want to create something for production and then do it in production, Jupiter notebooks are not ideal.

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How to Balance Efficiency and Risk in Your Supply Chain

Teradata

Supply Chain organizations need visibility now to leverage data for making decisions and taking action, both in times of crisis and in relative stability.

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Power Up Your PostgreSQL Analytics With Swarm64

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The PostgreSQL database is massively popular due to its flexibility and extensive ecosystem of extensions, but it is still not the first choice for high performance analytics. Swarm64 aims to change that by adding support for advanced hardware capabilities like FPGAs and optimized usage of modern SSDs. In this episode CEO and co-founder Thomas Richter discusses his motivation for creating an extension to optimize Postgres hardware usage, the benefits of running your analytics on the same

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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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An Introduction to Monads in Scala

Rock the JVM

A Scala tutorial on Monads that starts with practical needs and builds up from scratch: derive the monad patterns (laws) with no assumptions

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What Does It Mean for a Column to Be Indexed

Start Data Engineering

When optimizing queries on a database table, most developers tend to just create an index on the field to be queried.

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Project Metamorphosis Part 1: Elastic Apache Kafka Clusters in Confluent Cloud

Confluent

A few weeks ago when we talked about our new fundraising, we also announced we’d be kicking off Project Metamorphosis. What is Project Metamorphosis? Let me try to explain. I […].

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How to develop Spark applications with Zeppelin notebooks

Team Data Science

I love working with Zeppelin notebooks. Its so simple and you can just try something out. Especially working with dataframes and SparkSQL is a blast. What is a Zeppelin? A Zeppelin is a tool, a notebook tool, just like Jupiter. You can run it on a server and you can run it on your Hadoop cluster or whatever. And it can run Spark jobs in the background.

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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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Introducing Teradata’s Incoming CEO Steve McMillan

Teradata

Teradata's Board of Directors has selected the company's next President and Chief Executive Officer: Steve McMillan. Read more from interim President and CEO, Vic Lund.

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StreamNative Brings Streaming Data To The Cloud Native Landscape With Pulsar

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary There have been several generations of platforms for managing streaming data, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and different areas of focus. Pulsar is one of the recent entrants which has quickly gained adoption and an impressive set of capabilities. In this episode Sijie Guo discusses his motivations for spending so much of his time and energy on contributing to the project and growing the community.

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Pull the Data you Actually Want

Grouparoo

There’s an underlying pattern prevalent today in many digital marketing tools that is causing problems. Wasted time, overpaying, slow velocity, and privacy issues for your customers are some of the results of this pattern. The problem is the over-reliance on Events. Specifically, the problem is that many marketing tools live in a world where they expect to be “pushed” data, when it would be so much better if they were “pulling” data when they needed it.

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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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Learning All About Wi-Fi Data with Apache Kafka and Friends

Confluent

Recently, I’ve been looking at what’s possible with streams of Wi-Fi packet capture (pcap) data. I was prompted after initially setting up my Raspberry Pi to capture pcap data and […].

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Job Opportunities For Data Science Proof Of Concepts and MVPs

Team Data Science

What are the job opportunities in the field of Data Science? Several, of course! Based on the 4 phases of a Data Science project, the possibilities can be worked out well. In this blog post only two of the four phases will be discussed. But now from the beginning. The four phases are: Proof-of-Concept, MVP, Validation and Scaling. The Proof of Concept Phase (PoC) Starting at the PoC phase, you could say: okay, I'm getting a research data scientist here.

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How to Operationalize Enterprise Analytics in the Telco Industry

Teradata

Operationalizing world class analytics into day-to-day processes can help solve some of the greatest challenges in the telecommunications industry. Find out more.

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Enterprise Data Operations And Orchestration At Infoworks

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data management is hard at any scale, but working in the context of an enterprise organization adds even greater complexity. Infoworks is a platform built to provide a unified set of tooling for managing the full lifecycle of data in large businesses. By reducing the barrier to entry with a graphical interface for defining data transformations and analysis, it makes it easier to bring the domain experts into the process.

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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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New Course: NumPy for Data Engineers

Dataquest

Python programming is a critical skill for data engineers. When it comes to working with data, there’s a powerful library that can increase your code’s efficiency dramatically, especially when you’re working with large datasets: NumPy. That’s why we’ve added a NumPy for Data Engineers course to our Data Engineering path !

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5 Fun Code Expressiveness Tricks in Scala

Rock the JVM

Scala is an incredibly expressive language: discover hidden features that even experienced developers might miss!

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Building a Clickstream Dashboard Application with ksqlDB and Elasticsearch

Confluent

Using a powerful, event-driven application can help you unlock insights contained in the event streams of your business. Before we get into the technology, let’s go over some questions you […].

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Build a Full Big Data Platform Right Away?

Team Data Science

Should companies go full blowing big data/data science platform right away? In my opinion, you should first look at the different stages you are in. Are you in the Proof-of-Concept phase, where you are just working with offline data, where you are proving your concepts? Or are you in the MVP phase or in the creation of an MVP, where you are bringing in the first users, the first customers?

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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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COVID-19: The Perfect Storm

Teradata

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a Perfect Storm of disruption that impacts all of us -- from our health to the economy to the supply chain. Read more.

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Azure Synapse Analytics - Microsoft's Flagship Lakehouse Now in Preview

Advancing Analytics: Data Engineering

Today’s the day! There’s much buzz & excitement as we FINALLY get to see Azure Synapse Analytics in public preview, ready for us all to get our hands on it. There’s a raft of other announcements that come hand & hand with it too. What’s that? You thought Azure Synapse Analytics was already available? You’ve been using all year and don’t see what the fuss is about??

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Getting Started - Installing Additional Drivers

Preset

Now that you have Apache Superset installed locally, here's how to hook it up to your favorite database.

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Create Your Own Custom String Interpolator

Rock the JVM

Discover how to create your own custom string interpolator that feels like a native feature of Scala

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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.