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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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What is Microsoft Fabric? A big tech stack for big data

InfoWorld

It is built around a data lake called OneLake, and brings together new and existing components from Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into a single integrated environment. In many ways, Fabric is Microsoft’s answer to Google Cloud Dataplex. As of this writing, Fabric is in preview.

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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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Data Architect: Role Description, Skills, Certifications and When to Hire

Altexsoft

It serves as a foundation for the entire data management strategy and consists of multiple components including data pipelines; , on-premises and cloud storage facilities – data lakes , data warehouses , data hubs ;, data streaming and Big Data analytics solutions ( Hadoop , Spark , Kafka , etc.);

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Data analytics: your complete guide to big data consulting

Agile Engine

Introduction With the growing availability of cloud and AI, the data collected by organizations is now worth its weight in gold. Large-scale, granular, and actionable data analytics is more accessible than ever, but it still comes with numerous challenges. That’s where data analytics consultancies come into play.

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ETL vs ELT: Key Differences Everyone Must Know

Altexsoft

From the late 1980s, when data warehouses came into view, and up to the mid-2000s, ETL was the main method used in creating data warehouses to support business intelligence (BI). As data keeps growing in volumes and types, the use of ETL becomes quite ineffective, costly, and time-consuming. Compliance.

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Navigating the Data Lake: Insights from Building and Utilizing Data Lakes

InnovationM

Tools like Apache Atlas and Collibra provide features to organize, catalog, and document data assets within the data lake. They help establish data lineage, enable data discovery, and enforce compliance with data governance policies.

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