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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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How FiveStars re-engineered its data engineering stack

CIO

It shows in his reluctance to run his own servers but it’s perhaps most obvious in his attitude to data engineering, where he’s nearing the end of a five-year journey to automate or outsource much of the mundane maintenance work and focus internal resources on data analysis. It’s not a good use of our time either.”

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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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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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NJ Transit creates ‘data engine’ to fuel transformation

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Data engine on wheels’. To mine more data out of a dated infrastructure, Fazal first had to modernize NJ Transit’s stack from the ground up to be geared for business benefit. Today, NJ Transit is a “data engine on wheels,” says the CIDO. “We have shown out value,” Fazal says of the transformation.

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Our First Netflix Data Engineering Summit

Netflix Tech

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community!

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Data & Analytics Maturity Model Workshop Series

Speaker: Dave Mariani, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, AtScale; Bob Kelly, Director of Education and Enablement, AtScale

Workshop video modules include: Breaking down data silos. Integrating data from third-party sources. Developing a data-sharing culture. Combining data integration styles. Translating DevOps principles into your data engineering process. Using data models to create a single source of truth.

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The Evolution of the Data Team: Lessons Learned From Growing a Team From 3 to 20

Speaker: Mindy Chen, Director of Decision Science, Hudl

Mindy Chen, Director of Decision Science at Hudl, will take us on a journey through the challenges and opportunities she has seen when building a data team from scratch. Growing from 3 data engineers to a robust team of 20, Hudl has been on a journey to establish their data capability.