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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

According to a 2021 survey from ManageEngine — the IT division of Zoho — 80% of U.S.-based The company’s platform is designed to give data teams a unified platform to automate the orchestration of data engineering and analytics workloads, he says, ideally reducing the need for manual configuration.

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7 data trends on our radar

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Increasing focus on building data culture, organization, and training. In a recent O’Reilly survey , we found that the skills gap remains one of the key challenges holding back the adoption of machine learning. The demand for data skills (“the sexiest job of the 21st century”) hasn’t dissipated.

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Core technologies and tools for AI, big data, and cloud computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This concurs with survey results we plan to release over the next few months. In a forthcoming survey, “Evolving Data Infrastructure,” we found strong interest in machine learning (ML) among respondents across geographic regions. Automation in data science and big data. Open Data, Data Generation and Data Networks.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Airflow Pipeline Orchestration

Altexsoft

You can hardly compare data engineering toil with something as easy as breathing or as fast as the wind. The platform went live in 2015 at Airbnb, the biggest home-sharing and vacation rental site, as an orchestrator for increasingly complex data pipelines. How data engineering works. What is Apache Airflow?

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Technology Trends for 2023

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Year-over-year growth for software development topics Software architecture Software architecture is a very broad category that encompasses everything from design patterns (which we also saw under software development) to relatively trendy topics like serverless and event-driven architecture. That could be a big issue. year-over-year decline.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

Altexsoft

Its flexibility allows it to operate on single-node machines and large clusters, serving as a multi-language platform for executing data engineering , data science , and machine learning tasks. Before diving into the world of Spark, we suggest you get acquainted with data engineering in general.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

Altexsoft

Also, Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 showed that Docker became a fundamental instrument for being a developer with 69 percent of professional programmers choosing it as their number one tool. Source: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022. The Good and the Bad of Serverless Architecture. million apps at a rate of 14.7