This show goes behind the scenes for the tools, techniques, and difficulties associated with the discipline of data engineering. Databases, workflows, automation, and data manipulation are just some of the topics that you will find here.
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Archaeologists collect and create a variety of data as part of their research and exploration. Open Context is a platform for cleaning, curating, and sharing this data. In this episode Eric Kansa describes how they process, clean, and normalize the data that they host, the challenges that…
Archaeologists collect and create a…
04 February 2019 | 01:00:56
Controlling access to a database is a solved problem… right? It can be straightforward for small teams and a small number of storage engines, but once either or both of those start to scale then things quickly become complex and difficult to manage. After years of running across the…
Controlling access to a database is a…
29 January 2019 | 00:42:18
Building internal expertise around big data in a large organization is a major competitive advantage. However, it can be a difficult process due to compliance needs and the need to scale globally on day one. In this episode Jesper Søgaard and Keld Antonsen share the story of starting and…
Building internal expertise around big…
21 January 2019 | 00:48:04
The past year has been an active one for the timeseries market. New products have been launched, more businesses have moved to streaming analytics, and the team at Timescale has been keeping busy. In this episode the TimescaleDB CEO Ajay Kulkarni and CTO Michael Freedman stop by to talk about their 1.0 release, how the use cases…
The past year has been an active one for the timeseries market. New products…
14 January 2019 | 00:41:26
The Hadoop platform is purpose built for processing large, slow moving data in long-running batch jobs. As the ecosystem around it has grown, so has the need for fast data analytics on fast moving data. To fill this need the Kudu project was created with a column oriented table format that was tuned for high volumes of writes…
The Hadoop platform is purpose built for processing large, slow moving data in…
07 January 2019 | 00:50:47
As more companies and organizations are working to gain a real-time view of their business, they are increasingly turning to stream processing technologies to fullfill that need. However, the storage requirements for continuous, unbounded streams of data are markedly different than that of batch oriented workloads. To address…
As more companies and organizations are working to gain a real-time view of…
31 December 2018 | 00:44:42
Processing high velocity time-series data in real-time is a complex challenge. The team at PipelineDB has built a continuous query engine that simplifies the task of computing aggregates across incoming streams of events. In this episode Derek Nelson and Usman Masood explain how it is architected, strategies for designing your…
Processing high velocity time-series data in real-time is a complex challenge.…
24 December 2018 | 01:03:52
Every business needs a pipeline for their critical data, even if it is just pasting into a spreadsheet. As the organization grows and gains more customers, the requirements for that pipeline will change. In this episode Christian Heinzmann, Head of Data Warehousing at Grubhub, discusses the various requirements for data…
Every business needs a pipeline for their critical data, even if it is just…
17 December 2018 | 00:39:22
Apache Spark is a popular and widely used tool for a variety of data oriented projects. With the large array of capabilities, and the complexity of the underlying system, it can be difficult to understand how to get started using it. Jean George Perrin has been so impressed by the versatility of Spark that he is writing a book…
Apache Spark is a popular and widely used tool for a variety of data oriented…
10 December 2018 | 00:50:31
Distributed systems are complex to build and operate, and there are certain primitives that are common to a majority of them. Rather then re-implement the same capabilities every time, many projects build on top of Apache Zookeeper. In this episode Patrick Hunt explains how the Apache Zookeeper project was started, how it…
Distributed systems are complex to build and operate, and there are…
03 December 2018 | 00:54:25