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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 does the new era of location intelligence hold for businesses?

TechCrunch

Throughout the COVID-19 recovery era, location data is set to be a core ingredient for driving business intelligence and building sustainable consumer loyalty.

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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

It plans to use the money to continue investing in its technology stack, to step up with more business development, and to hire more talent for its team, to meet what it believes are changing tides in the world of data warehousing.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). We are working to transform ourselves into a data company mindset, finding newer ways to leverage data to support business growth.”

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

InnovationM

Technologies Behind Data Lake Construction Distributed Storage Systems: When building data lakes, distributed storage systems play a critical role. These systems ensure high availability and facilitate the storage of massive data volumes. Data Ingestion Tools: The journey of constructing a data lake starts with data ingestion.

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Inside the Kentik Data Engine, Part 2

Kentik

In part 1 of this series we introduced Kentik Data Engine™, the backend to Kentik Detect™, which is a large-scale distributed datastore that is optimized for querying IP flow records (NetFlow v5/9, sFlow, IPFIX) and related network data (GeoIP, BGP, SNMP). Want to try KDE with your own network data? Time: 1.293s.

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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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