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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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Healthcare organizations must create a strong data foundation to fully benefit from generative AI

CIO

Key elements of this foundation are data strategy, data governance, and data engineering. A healthcare payer or provider must establish a data strategy to define its vision, goals, and roadmap for the organization to manage its data. This is the overarching guidance that drives digital transformation.

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Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets

TechCrunch

Israeli startup Firebolt has been taking on Google’s BigQuery, Snowflake and others with a cloud data warehouse solution that it claims can run analytics on large datasets cheaper and faster than its competitors. Firebolt cites analysts that estimate the global cloud analytics market will be worth some $65 billion by 2025.

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO

“Even though we’ve seen a huge proliferation of data, the supply for analysts does not meet the demand,” says Bess Healy, senior vice president and CIO at Stamford, Conn.-based We try to be data-driven in our decisions so we have a great need for analytics skill sets. … These people are making up a data science support system.

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Cloudera Customer Story

Cloudera

Implementing a cohesive data vision LGIM’s Global Chief Operating Office is responsible for the company’s technology, data, client servicing and the management of its strategic operating agenda. In his role as LGIM’s Chief Technology Officer, Derrick Hastie is key to supporting this transformational agenda.

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

TechCrunch

CEO Sean Knapp says that the new capital — which brings Ascend’s total to $50 million — will be used to expand the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams while extending Ascend’s platform to support greater automation. Rather, it was the ability to scale the productivity of the people who work with data.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. as of January.