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How FiveStars re-engineered its data engineering stack

CIO

It shows in his reluctance to run his own servers but it’s perhaps most obvious in his attitude to data engineering, where he’s nearing the end of a five-year journey to automate or outsource much of the mundane maintenance work and focus internal resources on data analysis. It’s not a good use of our time either.”

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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

It’s important to understand the differences between a data engineer and a data scientist. Misunderstanding or not knowing these differences are making teams fail or underperform with big data. I think some of these misconceptions come from the diagrams that are used to describe data scientists and data engineers.

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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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1. Streamlining Membership Data Engineering at Netflix with Psyberg

Netflix Tech

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. It also becomes inefficient as the data scale increases.

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Snowflake Best Practices for Data Engineering

Perficient

Introduction: We often end up creating a problem while working on data. So, here are few best practices for data engineering using snowflake: 1.Transform Using COPY and SNOWPIPE is the fastest and cheapest way to load data. In fact, this is another example of using the right tools.

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SQL for Data Engineering

Gorilla Logic

Are you a data engineer or seeking to become one? This is the first entry of a series of articles about skills you’ll need in your everyday life as a data engineer. Data cleansing and enrichment processes need to combine, filter, aggregate, and select different sets to answer questions we have. CROSS JOIN.

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What is Data Engineering: Explaining Data Pipeline, Data Warehouse, and Data Engineer Role

Altexsoft

If we look at the hierarchy of needs in data science implementations, we’ll see that the next step after gathering your data for analysis is data engineering. This discipline is not to be underestimated, as it enables effective data storing and reliable data flow while taking charge of the infrastructure.