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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. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

Altexsoft

The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data. This article explains what a data lake is, its architecture, and diverse use cases. Structured data sources.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

diversity of sales channels, complex structure resulting in siloed data and lack of visibility. These challenges can be addressed by intelligent management supported by data analytics and business intelligence (BI) that allow for getting insights from available data and making data-informed decisions to support company development.

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

Altexsoft

Due to extensive usage of connected IoT devices and advanced processing technologies, SCCTs not only gather data and build operational reports but also create predictions, define the impact of various macro- and microeconomic factors on the supply chain, and run “what-if” scenarios to find the best course of action.

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What is Streaming Analytics: Data Streaming, Stream Processing, and Real-time Analytics

Altexsoft

With the uprise of internet-of-things (IoT) devices, overall data volume increase, and engineering advancements in this field led to new ways of collecting, processing, and analysing data. As a result, it became possible to provide real-time analytics by processing streamed data.

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Data Mesh Architecture: Concept, Main Principles, and Implementation

Altexsoft

In the last few decades, we’ve seen a lot of architectural approaches to building data pipelines , changing one another and promising better and easier ways of deriving insights from information. There have been relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and even a combination of the latter two. What data mesh IS.

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Data Lakehouse: Concept, Key Features, and Architecture Layers

Altexsoft

The pun being obvious, there’s more to that than just a new term: Data lakehouses combine the best features of both data lakes and data warehouses and this post will explain this all. What is a data lakehouse? Traditional data warehouse platform architecture. Data lake architecture example.