Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2023

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 Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 130

InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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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Big Data Azure Google Cloud Data 81

Altexsoft

JANUARY 22, 2020

Please note: this topic requires some general understanding of analytics and data engineering, so we suggest you read the following articles if you’re new to the topic: Data engineering overview. A complete guide to business intelligence and analytics. The role of business intelligence developer.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 16, 2021

As the topic is closely related to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW), we suggest you to get familiar with general terms first: A guide to business intelligence. An overview of data warehouse types. What is data pipeline. OLAP database is the place where we store data for analysis.

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Analytics Analysis Storage Business Intelligence 98

Altexsoft

JULY 29, 2022

Apache Hadoop is an open-source Java-based framework that relies on parallel processing and distributed storage for analyzing massive datasets. Developed in 2006 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to run the web crawler Apache Nutch, it has become a standard for Big Data analytics. What is Hadoop? Apache Hadoop architecture.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 26, 2022

Not long ago setting up a data warehouse — a central information repository enabling business intelligence and analytics — meant purchasing expensive, purpose-built hardware appliances and running a local data center. The data journey from different source systems to a warehouse commonly happens in two ways — ETL and ELT.

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Weak Development Team Data Storage Technical Review 59

Altexsoft

JANUARY 14, 2021

Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, and Others: Cloud Data Warehouse Tools Compared. From simple mechanisms for holding data like punch cards and paper tapes to real-time data processing systems like Hadoop, data storage systems have come a long way to become what they are now. Is it still so?

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