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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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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. Another sign of its growth is a big hire that the company is making. billion valuation.

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Gretel AI raises $50M for a platform that lets engineers build and use synthetic data sets to ensure the privacy of their actual data

TechCrunch

Increasingly, conversations about big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence are going hand-in-hand with conversations about privacy and data protection. They could see that the longer-term issue would be a growing need and priority for data privacy. But humans are not meant to be mined.”

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What's Erik up to?

Erik Bernhardsson

I'm extremely determined that I want to start my own thing (meaning, don't try to hire me, it's probably a waste of time), and it's highly likely it will be something in the data engineering/science tools/infra space. I've spent most of my career working in data in some shape or form. At Spotify, I was entirely focused on it.

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Congrats to @DataTactics: Just acquired by L-3 for #BigData and #Analytics capabilities

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley L-3 Acquires Data Tactics Corporation – Adds New Big Data Analytics and Cloud Solutions Capabilities. NEW YORK, Mar 05, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) — L-3 Communications announced effective today that it has acquired Data Tactics Corporation. Its highly tailored solutions are used by the U.S.

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Apiumhub is delighted to support YOW! LONDON 2022

Apiumhub

Adam Day – Data Scientist at SAGE Publishing. Adam Tornhill – Founder, CTO & Senior Developer at CodeScene, Author of “Software Design X-Rays & “Your Code As a Crime Scene“. Jeff Williams – CTO & co-founder of Contrast Security. Jonas Mayer – Senior Consultant at TNG Technology.

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The IBM Press Release on Spark That Every Tech Leader Should Read

CTOvision

They also launched a plan to train over a million data scientists and data engineers on Spark. As data and analytics are embedded into the fabric of business and society –from popular apps to the Internet of Things (IoT) –Spark brings essential advances to large-scale data processing.