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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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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO

Invest in core functions that perform data curation such as modeling important relationships, cleansing raw data, and curating key dimensions and measures. Optimize data flows for agility. Limit the times data must be moved to reduce cost, increase data freshness, and optimize enterprise agility.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. Were building a department of AI engineering, mostly by bringing in people from data engineering and training them to work with gen AI and AI in general, says Daniel Avancini, Indiciums CDO.

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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. Each unlocking value in the data engineering workflows enterprises can start taking advantage of. Usage Patterns.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

In an effort to be data-driven, many organizations are looking to democratize data. However, they often struggle with increasingly larger data volumes, reverting back to bottlenecking data access to manage large numbers of data engineering requests and rising data warehousing costs.

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What is Data Engineering: Explaining Data Pipeline, Data Warehouse, and Data Engineer Role

Altexsoft

If we look at the hierarchy of needs in data science implementations, we’ll see that the next step after gathering your data for analysis is data engineering. This discipline is not to be underestimated, as it enables effective data storing and reliable data flow while taking charge of the infrastructure.

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A few months ago, I wrote about the differences between data engineers and data scientists. An interesting thing happened: the data scientists started pushing back, arguing that they are, in fact, as skilled as data engineers at data engineering. Data engineering is not in the limelight.