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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines that convert raw data into formats usable by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers.

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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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Delivering Modern Enterprise Data Engineering with Cloudera Data Engineering on Azure

Cloudera

After the launch of CDP Data Engineering (CDE) on AWS a few months ago, we are thrilled to announce that CDE, the only cloud-native service purpose built for enterprise data engineers, is now available on Microsoft Azure. . CDP data lifecycle integration and SDX security and governance. Easy job deployment.

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Data engineering: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Data

Get a basic overview of data engineering and then go deeper with recommended resources. As the the data space has matured, data engineering has emerged as a separate and related role that works in concert with data scientists. Continue reading Data engineering: A quick and simple definition.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

In an effort to be data-driven, many organizations are looking to democratize data. However, they often struggle with increasingly larger data volumes, reverting back to bottlenecking data access to manage large numbers of data engineering requests and rising data warehousing costs.

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Cloudera Data Engineering 2021 Year End Review

Cloudera

Since the release of Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) more than a year ago , our number one goal was operationalizing Spark pipelines at scale with first class tooling designed to streamline automation and observability. Securing and scaling storage. In the latter half of the year, we completely transitioned to Airflow 2.1.

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What Role Do Data Engineers Play in Data Security?

Dataiku

While we know that data engineers are very different than data architects — as the latter conceptualize data frameworks and the former build and maintain them — the data engineer function has evolved quite a bit in recent years.