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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines that convert raw data into formats usable by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer.

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NJ Transit creates ‘data engine’ to fuel transformation

CIO

Since joining NJ Transit, Fazal has primarily been chipping away at his major goal: enabling data innovation. Data engine on wheels’. To mine more data out of a dated infrastructure, Fazal first had to modernize NJ Transit’s stack from the ground up to be geared for business benefit.

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Prophecy raises $25M for its low-code data engineering platform

TechCrunch

Prophecy , a low-code platform for data engineering, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Insight Partners. These enterprises, Bains noted, often sit on tens of thousands of data pipelines that run on-premises.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

However, they often struggle with increasingly larger data volumes, reverting back to bottlenecking data access to manage large numbers of data engineering requests and rising data warehousing costs. This new open data architecture is built to maximize data access with minimal data movement and no data copies.

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Delivering Modern Enterprise Data Engineering with Cloudera Data Engineering on Azure

Cloudera

After the launch of CDP Data Engineering (CDE) on AWS a few months ago, we are thrilled to announce that CDE, the only cloud-native service purpose built for enterprise data engineers, is now available on Microsoft Azure. . Prerequisites for deploying CDP Data Engineering on Azure can be found here.

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Salesforce Data Cloud updates aim to ease data analysis, AI app development

CIO

Salesforce is updating its Data Cloud with vector database and Einstein Copilot Search capabilities in an effort to help enterprises use unstructured data for analysis. The Einstein Trust Layer is based on a large language model (LLM) built into the platform to ensure data security and privacy.