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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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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 used by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers. The data engineer role.

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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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Make the leap to Hybrid with Cloudera Data Engineering

Cloudera

When we introduced Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) in the Public Cloud in 2020 it was a culmination of many years of working alongside companies as they deployed Apache Spark based ETL workloads at scale. It’s no longer driven by data volumes, but containerization, separation of storage and compute, and democratization of analytics.

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How to Save Time and Money by Testing Spark Locally

Xebia

Why should you think once again about testing Spark? Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. There was no need for generating your own data; just take a percentage of production data. Shouldering blame: if something goes wrong, blame your Data Engineer!

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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. Test Drive CDP Pubic Cloud.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO

Big data architect: The big data architect designs and implements data architectures supporting the storage, processing, and analysis of large volumes of data. Data architect vs. data engineer The data architect and data engineer roles are closely related.

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