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

TechCrunch

Ascend.io , a company developing data automation products for enterprise customers, has raised $31 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global with participation from Shasta Ventures and existing investor Accel, it announced today. Rather, it was the ability to scale the productivity of the people who work with data.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

Altexsoft

Gone are the days of a web app being developed using a common LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ) stack. What’s more, this software may run either partly or completely on top of different hardware – from a developer’s computer to a production cloud provider. million monthly active developers sharing 13.7 Docker registries.

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The Good and the Bad of Snowflake Data Warehouse

Altexsoft

The former extracts and transforms information before loading it into centralized storage while the latter allows for loading data prior to transformation. Developed in 2012 and officially launched in 2014, Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform provided as a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution with a completely new SQL query engine.

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Technology Trends for 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Now developers are using AI to write software. Content about software development was the most widely used (31% of all usage in 2022), which includes software architecture and programming languages. Practices like the use of code repositories and continuous testing are still spreading to both new developers and older IT departments.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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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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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.