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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

-based businesses said they accelerated their AI implementation over the past two years, while 20% said they’d boosted their usage of business analytics compared with the global average. Of course, the benefits haven’t been evenly distributed. “This is an exciting time for data engineering.

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RudderStack raises $56M for its customer data platform

TechCrunch

. “But if you look at state of the art companies like Amazon, then it is not the marketing teams that are putting together this customer data infrastructure — it is very much the engineering teams, the data teams, maybe the growth team — but the data team inside of that growth team — they are building this infrastructure.

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Data Architect: Role Description, Skills, Certifications and When to Hire

Altexsoft

It serves as a foundation for the entire data management strategy and consists of multiple components including data pipelines; , on-premises and cloud storage facilities – data lakes , data warehouses , data hubs ;, data streaming and Big Data analytics solutions ( Hadoop , Spark , Kafka , etc.);

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Data Scientist vs Data Engineer: Differences and Why You Need Both

Altexsoft

If you’re an executive who has a hard time understanding the underlying processes of data science and get confused with terminology, keep reading. We will try to answer your questions and explain how two critical data jobs are different and where they overlap. Data science vs data engineering.

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The Future of the Data Lakehouse – Open

Cloudera

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. More formats, more engines, more interoperability.

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Core technologies and tools for AI, big data, and cloud computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There are many articles that point to the explosion of data, but in order for that data that be useful for analytics and ML, it has to be collected, transported, cleaned, stored, and combined with other data sources. Many universities are offering courses; some like UC Berkeley have multiple courses.

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Crunching Queries at Scale: How Spotfire Customers Get “Redshift Ready” Cloud Analytics with AWS

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

And for enterprises running AWS, Amazon Redshift is most certainly a part of the data warehousing picture given its size, flexibility, and scale. Fast, fully-managed warehousing services make it simple and cost-efficient to analyze all your data right within your business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms.

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