November, 2021

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Why Machine Learning Engineers are Replacing Data Scientists

KDnuggets

The hiring run for data scientists continues along at a strong clip around the world. But, there are other emerging roles that are demonstrating key value to organizations that you should consider based on your existing or desired skill sets.

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Scaling Apache Druid for Real-Time Cloud Analytics at Confluent

Confluent

How does Confluent provide fine-grained operational visibility to our customers throughout all of the multi-tenant services that we run in the cloud? At Confluent Cloud, we manage a large number […].

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How Uber Migrated Financial Data from DynamoDB to Docstore

Uber Engineering

Introduction. Each day, Uber moves millions of people around the world and delivers tens of millions of food and grocery orders. This generates a large number of financial transactions that need to be stored with provable completeness, consistency, and compliance. … The post How Uber Migrated Financial Data from DynamoDB to Docstore appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Azure Data Factory: Fail Activity

Azure Data Engineering

During some scenarios in Azure Data Factory, we may want to intentionally stop the execution of the pipeline. An example could be when we want to check the existence of a file or folder using Get Metadata activity. We may want to fail the pipeline if the file/folder does not exist. To achieve this, we could use the Fail Activity. Invoking the Fail Activity ensures that the pipeline execution will be stopped.

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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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Setting up end-to-end tests for cloud data pipelines

Start Data Engineering

1. Introduction 2. Setting up services locally 3. Writing an end-to-end data pipeline test 4. Conclusion 5. Further reading 6. References 1. Introduction Data pipelines can have multiple software components. This makes testing all of them together difficult. If you are wondering What is the best way to end-to-end test data pipelines? Are end-to-end tests worth the effort?

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Airflow Timetable: Schedule your DAGs like never before

Marc Lamberti

Airflow Timetable. This new concept introduced in Airflow 2.2 is going to change your way of scheduling your data pipelines. Or I would say, you’re finally going to have all the freedom and flexibility you ever dreamt of for scheduling your DAGs. What if you want to run your DAG for specific schedule intervals with “holes” in between?

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The Future of SQL: Databases Meet Stream Processing

Confluent

SQL has proven to be an invaluable asset for most software engineers building software applications. Yet, the world as we know it has changed dramatically since SQL was created in […].

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New Applied ML Prototypes Now Available in Cloudera Machine Learning

Cloudera

It’s no secret that Data Scientists have a difficult job. It feels like a lifetime ago that everyone was talking about data science as the sexiest job of the 21st century. Heck, it was so long ago that people were still meeting in person! Today, the sexy is starting to lose its shine. There’s recognition that it’s nearly impossible to find the unicorn data scientist that was the apple of every CEO’s eye in 2012.

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Azure Data Factory: Wait Activity

Azure Data Engineering

In one of the previous posts, we discussed how we can use Validation activity to design the Pipeline to wait for a scheduled time and retry. There is another way to introduce a delay in the Pipeline. Wait activity can be used to pause the execution of the Pipeline for a fixed amount of time. Sometimes, we come across scenarios where we would like the execution for the Pipeline to be Paused for some time but not cancelled.

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The Benefits and Drawbacks of DataOps in Practice

DataKitchen

The post The Benefits and Drawbacks of DataOps in Practice first appeared on DataKitchen.

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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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Ten Things I’ve Learned in 20 Years in Data and Analytics

Teradata

Teradata's Martin Willcox recently passed 17 years at Teradata and a quarter of a century in the industry. Here are the ten things he's learned about data analytics in those 20-odd years.

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How to Build a Knowledge Graph with Neo4J and Transformers

KDnuggets

Learn to use custom Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction models.

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How Do You Change a Never-Ending Query?

Confluent

There’s a philosophical puzzle of the Ship of Theseus where throughout a long voyage planks in a ship are individually replaced as they begin to rot. At the end, there […].

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Make Your Models Matter: What It Takes to Maximize Business Value from Your Machine Learning Initiatives

Cloudera

We are excited by the endless possibilities of machine learning (ML). We recognise that experimentation is an important component of any enterprise machine learning practice. But, we also know that experimentation alone doesn’t yield business value. Organizations need to usher their ML models out of the lab (i.e., the proof-of-concept phase) and into deployment, which is otherwise known as being “in production”. .

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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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Azure Data Factory: Filter Activity

Azure Data Engineering

In the previous post, we discussed the Switch Activity , which is useful for branching the control flow based on some condition. We will discuss about the Filter Activity in this post. The purpose of Filter Activity is to process array items based on some condition. Consider a scenario where we would like to set the value of a variable to the current array item that satisfies some business rule or condition.

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Doing DataOps For External Data Sources As A Service at Demyst

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The data that you have access to affects the questions that you can answer. By using external data sources you can drastically increase the range of analysis that is available to your organization. The challenge comes in all of the operational aspects of finding, accessing, organizing, and serving that data. In this episode Mark Hookey discusses how he and his team at Demyst do all of the DataOps for external data sources so that you don’t have to, including the systems necessary t

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A Systematic Approach to Reducing Technical Debt

Zalando Engineering

Introduction While technical debt is a recurring issue in software engineering, the case of the Merchant Orders team within Zalando Direct was a an outlier as, due to a lack of a clearly defined process, technical debt more or less only ever accumulated. When I joined this team in autumn 2020 as its new engineering lead, the technical debt backlog had entries dating back to 2018.

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5 Advanced Tips on Python Sequences

KDnuggets

Notes from Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho.

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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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Readings in Streaming Database Systems

Confluent

What will the next important category of databases look like? For decades, relational databases were the undisputed home of data. They powered everything: from websites to analytics, from customer data […].

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Switching from CPUs to GPUs for NYC Taxi Fare Predictions with NVIDIA RAPIDS

Cloudera

Have you ever asked a data scientist if they wanted their code to run faster? You would probably get a more varied response asking if the earth is flat. It really isn’t any different from anything else in tech, faster is almost always better. One of the best ways to make a substantial improvement in processing time is to, if you haven’t already, switched from CPUs to GPUs.

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10 DataOps Principles for Overcoming Data Engineer Burnout

DataKitchen

For several years now, the elephant in the room has been that data and analytics projects are failing. Gartner estimated that 85% of big data projects fail. Data from New Vantage partners showed that the number of data-driven organizations has actually declined to 24% from 37% several years ago and that only 29% of organizations are achieving transformational outcomes from their data. .

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Creating A Unified Experience For The Modern Data Stack At Mozart Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The modern data stack has been gaining a lot of attention recently with a rapidly growing set of managed services for different stages of the data lifecycle. With all of the available options it is possible to run a scalable, production grade data platform with a small team, but there are still sharp edges and integration challenges to work through.

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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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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

Netflix Tech

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. Netflix is proud to be a founding member of AOMedia and a key contributor to the development of AV1.

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Most Common SQL Mistakes on Data Science Interviews

KDnuggets

Sure, we all make mistakes -- which can be a bit more painful when we are trying to get hired -- so check out these typical errors applicants make while answering SQL questions during data science interviews.

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How to Efficiently Subscribe to a SQL Query for Changes

Confluent

Imagine that you have real-time data about what’s happening in the stock market, and you want to support a large number of customized dashboards displaying the data as it comes […].

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NiFi as a Function in DataFlow Service

Cloudera

Introduction. With the general availability of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) , our customers can now self-serve deployments of Apache NiFi data flows on Kubernetes clusters in a cost effective way providing auto scaling, resource isolation and monitoring with KPI-based alerting. You can find more information in this release announcement blog post and in this technical deep dive blog post.

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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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The vast majority of data engineers are burnt out. Those working in healthcare are no exception

DataKitchen

The post The vast majority of data engineers are burnt out. Those working in healthcare are no exception first appeared on DataKitchen.

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Laying The Foundation Of Your Data Platform For The Era Of Big Complexity With Dagster

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The technology for scaling storage and processing of data has gone through massive evolution over the past decade, leaving us with the ability to work with massive datasets at the cost of massive complexity. Nick Schrock created the Dagster framework to help tame that complexity and scale the organizational capacity for working with data. In this episode he shares the journey that he and his team at Elementl have taken to understand the state of the ecosystem and how they can provide a f

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Building confidence in a decision

Netflix Tech

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , Michael Lindon , and Colin McFarland This is the fifth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Part 3 (False positives and statistical significance), and Part 4 (False negatives and power).

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On-Device Deep Learning: PyTorch Mobile and TensorFlow Lite

KDnuggets

PyTorch and TensorFlow are the two leading AI/ML Frameworks. In this article, we take a look at their on-device counterparts PyTorch Mobile and TensorFlow Lite and examine them more deeply from the perspective of someone who wishes to develop and deploy models for use on mobile platforms.

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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.