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Cutting Through The Noise And Focusing On The Fundamentals Of Data Engineering With The Data Janitor - Episode 151

September 22, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Cutting Through The Noise And Focusing On The Fundamentals Of Data Engineering With The Data Janitor - Episode 151

Data engineering is a constantly growing and evolving discipline. There are always new tools, systems, and design patterns to learn, which leads to a great deal of confusion for newcomers. Daniel Molnar has dedicated his time to helping data professionals get back to basics through presentations at conferences and meetups, and with his most recent endeavor of building the Pipeline Data Engineering Academy. In this episode he shares advice on how to cut through the noise, which principles are foundational to building a successful career as a data engineer,...

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Distributed In Memory Processing And Streaming With Hazelcast - Episode 150

September 15, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Distributed In Memory Processing And Streaming With Hazelcast - Episode 150

In memory computing provides significant performance benefits, but brings along challenges for managing failures and scaling up. Hazelcast is a platform for managing stateful in-memory storage and computation across a distributed cluster of commodity hardware. On top of this foundation, the Hazelcast team has also built a streaming platform for reliable high throughput data transmission. In this episode Dale Kim shares how Hazelcast is implemented, the use cases that it enables, and how it complements on-disk data management systems.

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Simplify Your Data Architecture With The Presto Distributed SQL Engine - Episode 149

September 7, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Simplify Your Data Architecture With The Presto Distributed SQL Engine - Episode 149

Databases are limited in scope to the information that they directly contain. For analytical use cases you often want to combine data across multiple sources and storage locations. This frequently requires cumbersome and time-consuming data integration. To address this problem Martin Traverso and his colleagues at Facebook built the Presto distributed query engine. In this episode he explains how it is designed to allow for querying and combining data where it resides, the use cases that such an architecture unlocks, and the innovative ways that it is being employed...

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Building A Better Data Warehouse For The Cloud At Firebolt - Episode 148

September 1, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Building A Better Data Warehouse For The Cloud At Firebolt - Episode 148

Data warehouse technology has been around for decades and has gone through several generational shifts in that time. The current trends in data warehousing are oriented around cloud native architectures that take advantage of dynamic scaling and the separation of compute and storage. Firebolt is taking that a step further with a core focus on speed and interactivity. In this episode CEO and founder Eldad Farkash explains how the Firebolt platform is architected for high throughput, their simple and transparent pricing model to encourage widespread use, and the use...

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Metadata Management And Integration At LinkedIn With DataHub - Episode 147

August 25, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Metadata Management And Integration At LinkedIn With DataHub - Episode 147

In order to scale the use of data across an organization there are a number of challenges related to discovery, governance, and integration that need to be solved. The key to those solutions is a robust and flexible metadata management system. LinkedIn has gone through several iterations on the most maintainable and scalable approach to metadata, leading them to their current work on DataHub. In this episode Mars Lan and Pardhu Gunnam explain how they designed the platform, how it integrates into their data platforms, and how it is...

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Exploring The TileDB Universal Data Engine - Episode 146

August 17, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Exploring The TileDB Universal Data Engine - Episode 146

Most databases are designed to work with textual data, with some special purpose engines that support domain specific formats. TileDB is a data engine that was built to support every type of data by using multi-dimensional arrays as the foundational primitive. In this episode the creator and founder of TileDB shares how he first started working on the underlying technology and the benefits of using a single engine for efficiently storing and querying any form of data. He also discusses the shifts in database architectures from vertically integrated monoliths...

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Closing The Loop On Event Data Collection With Iteratively - Episode 145

August 10, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Closing The Loop On Event Data Collection With Iteratively - Episode 145

Event based data is a rich source of information for analytics, unless none of the event structures are consistent. The team at Iteratively are building a platform to manage the end to end flow of collaboration around what events are needed, how to structure the attributes, and how they are captured. In this episode founders Patrick Thompson and Ondrej Hrebicek discuss the problems that they have experienced as a result of inconsistent event schemas, how the Iteratively platform integrates the definition, development, and delivery of event data, and the...

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A Practical Introduction To Graph Data Applications - Episode 144

August 4, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on A Practical Introduction To Graph Data Applications - Episode 144

Finding connections between data and the entities that they represent is a complex problem. Graph data models and the applications built on top of them are perfect for representing relationships and finding emergent structures in your information. In this episode Denise Gosnell and Matthias Broecheler discuss their recent book, the Practitioner's Guide To Graph Data, including the fundamental principles that you need to know about graph structures, the current state of graph support in database engines, tooling, and query languages, as well as useful tips on potential pitfalls when...

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Build More Reliable Distributed Systems By Breaking Them With Jepsen - Episode 143

July 28, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Build More Reliable Distributed Systems By Breaking Them With Jepsen - Episode 143

A majority of the scalable data processing platforms that we rely on are built as distributed systems. This brings with it a vast number of subtle ways that errors can creep in. Kyle Kingsbury created the Jepsen framework for testing the guarantees of distributed data processing systems and identifying when and why they break. In this episode he shares his approach to testing complex systems, the common challenges that are faced by engineers who build them, and why it is important to understand their limitations. This was a great...

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Making Wind Energy More Efficient With Data At Turbit Systems - Episode 142

July 21, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Making Wind Energy More Efficient With Data At Turbit Systems - Episode 142

Wind energy is an important component of an ecologically friendly power system, but there are a number of variables that can affect the overall efficiency of the turbines. Michael Tegtmeier founded Turbit Systems to help operators of wind farms identify and correct problems that contribute to suboptimal power outputs. In this episode he shares the story of how he got started working with wind energy, the system that he has built to collect data from the individual turbines, and how he is using machine learning to provide valuable insights...

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