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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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No-code business intelligence service y42 raises $2.9M seed round

TechCrunch

Berlin-based y42 (formerly known as Datos Intelligence), a data warehouse-centric business intelligence service that promises to give businesses access to an enterprise-level data stack that’s as simple to use as a spreadsheet, today announced that it has raised a $2.9

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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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Google quietly acquires Dataform, the UK startup helping businesses manage data warehouses

TechCrunch

that was building what it dubbed an “operating system” for data warehouses, has been quietly acquired by Google’s Google Cloud division. Mining data for insights and business intelligence typically requires a team of data engineers and analysts.

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Data platform Y42 raises $31M

TechCrunch

We are taking all the best practices of the modern data stack of these point-to-point tools, but apply them to one consistent platform.” Every business leader today knows they need to extract more value from their data, but the data talent to adopt and maintain a modern stack is scarce; demand for data engineers is growing 50% annually.

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The Good and the Bad of Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Altexsoft

What is Databricks Databricks is an analytics platform with a unified set of tools for data engineering, data management , data science, and machine learning. It combines the best elements of a data warehouse, a centralized repository for structured data, and a data lake used to host large amounts of raw data.

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How companies are building sustainable AI and ML initiatives

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In other words, could we see a roadmap for transitioning from legacy cases (perhaps some business intelligence) toward data science practices, and from there into the tooling required for more substantial AI adoption? Data scientists and data engineers are in demand.