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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.

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Snowflake Best Practices for Data Engineering

Perficient

Introduction: We often end up creating a problem while working on data. So, here are few best practices for data engineering using snowflake: 1.Transform So, resist the temptation to periodically load data using other methods (such as querying external tables). Use it, but don’t use it for normal large data loads.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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Big Data Engineer: Role, Responsibilities, and Job Description

Altexsoft

That’s why a data specialist with big data skills is one of the most sought-after IT candidates. Data Engineering positions have grown by half and they typically require big data skills. Data engineering vs big data engineering. Regular data processing. Big data processing.

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The Good and the Bad of Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Altexsoft

What is Databricks Databricks is an analytics platform with a unified set of tools for data engineering, data management , data science, and machine learning. It combines the best elements of a data warehouse, a centralized repository for structured data, and a data lake used to host large amounts of raw data.

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The Good and the Bad of Snowflake Data Warehouse

Altexsoft

The data journey from different source systems to a warehouse commonly happens in two ways — ETL and ELT. The former extracts and transforms information before loading it into centralized storage while the latter allows for loading data prior to transformation. Each node has its own disk storage. Database storage layer.

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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

Altexsoft

In 2010, a transformative concept took root in the realm of data storage and analytics — a data lake. The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data.