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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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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles

CIO

As with many data-hungry workloads, the instinct is to offload LLM applications into a public cloud, whose strengths include speedy time-to-market and scalability. Data-obsessed individuals such as Sherlock Holmes knew full well the importance of inferencing in making predictions, or in his case, solving mysteries.

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Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Distributed Gravity and Network Observability

Kentik

As datasets scale and networks become distributed to free their data, the data gravity story begins to morph into a data complexity story. The more distributed an enterprise’s data, the more heterogeneous its sources. Cloud networks give operators a much wider surface area to protect against cyberattacks.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. Durability.

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Data Scientist vs Data Engineer: Differences and Why You Need Both

Altexsoft

If you’re an executive who has a hard time understanding the underlying processes of data science and get confused with terminology, keep reading. We will try to answer your questions and explain how two critical data jobs are different and where they overlap. Data science vs data engineering.

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DataOps Uncovered: A Bold New Approach to Telemetry and Network Visibility

Kentik

Network telemetry and DataOps are two concepts that play a critical role in enhancing network visibility. With modern networks’ increasing complexity and scale, it has become essential to collect and analyze data from various sources to gain insights into network performance, security, and availability.

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

Netflix Tech

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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