Azure Data Engineering
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
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.
Start Data Engineering
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
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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Marc Lamberti
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
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?
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
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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Confluent
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
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 […].
Uber Engineering
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
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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Cloudera
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
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.
Teradata
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
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.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
The terms ‘data science’ and ‘machine learning’ are often used interchangeably. But while they are related, there are some glaring differences, so let’s take a look at the differences between the two disciplines, specifically as it relates to programming.
Confluent
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
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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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?
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
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.
Azure Data Engineering
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
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.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
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”. .
DataKitchen
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
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. .
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
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.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Also: How I Redesigned over 100 ETL into ELT Data Pipelines; Where NLP is heading; Don’t Waste Time Building Your Data Science Network; Data Scientists: How to Sell Your Project and Yourself.
Confluent
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
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 […].
Netflix Tech
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
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.
AltexSoft
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
If you’ve ever been to a bookstore, you probably know the dilemma of the book location. Say you’re looking for “Atlas Shrugged”, and you know it’s a mix of science fiction, mystery, and romance genres. Now, which bookshelf will you go for to find it? Should it be on the science fiction or on the romance shelf? The problem of document classification pertains to the library, information, and computer sciences.
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.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
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.
DataKitchen
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Data organizations often have a mix of centralized and decentralized activity. DataOps concerns itself with the complex flow of data across teams, data centers and organizational boundaries. It expands beyond tools and data architecture and views the data organization from the perspective of its processes and workflows. The DataKitchen Platform is a “ process hub” that masters and optimizes those processes.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
ML pipeline design has undergone several evolutions in the past decade with advances in memory and processor performance, storage systems, and the increasing scale of data sets. We describe how these design patterns changed, what processes they went through, and their future direction.
Confluent
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
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 […].
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.
Netflix Tech
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
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).
AltexSoft
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Nowadays, all organizations need real-time data to make instant business decisions and bring value to their customers faster. But this data is all over the place: It lives in the cloud, on social media platforms, in operational systems, and on websites, to name a few. Not to mention that additional sources are constantly being added through new initiatives like big data analytics , cloud-first, and legacy app modernization.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
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.
DataKitchen
NOVEMBER 20, 2021
What makes an effective DataOps Engineer? A DataOps Engineer shepherds process flows across complex corporate structures. Organizations have changed significantly over the last number of years and even more dramatically over the previous 12 months, with the sharp increase in remote work. A DataOps engineer runs toward errors. You might ask what that means.
Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network
In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
If you are beginning your data science journey, then you must be prepared to plan it out as a step-by-step process that will guide you from being a total newbie to getting your first job as a data scientist. These tips and educational resources should be useful for you and add confidence as you take that first big step.
Confluent
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
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 […].
Netflix Tech
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
by Christos G. Bampis , Chao Chen , Anush K. Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.
Teradata
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
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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