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Bring Order To The Chaos Of Your Unstructured Data Assets With Unstruk - Episode 196

June 18, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Bring Order To The Chaos Of Your Unstructured Data Assets With Unstruk - Episode 196

Working with unstructured data has typically been a motivation for a data lake. The challenge is imposing enough order on the platform to make it useful. Kirk Marple has spent years working with data systems and the media industry, which inspired him to build a platform for automatically organizing your unstructured assets to make them more valuable. In this episode he shares the goals of the Unstruk Data Warehouse, how it is architected to extract asset metadata and build a searchable knowledge graph from the information, and the myriad...

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Accelerating Machine Learning Training And Delivery With In-Database ML - Episode 195

June 15, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Accelerating Machine Learning Training And Delivery With In-Database ML - Episode 195

When you build a machine learning model, the first step is always to load your data. Typically this means downloading files from object storage, or querying a database. To speed up the process, why not build the model inside the database so that you don't have to move the information? In this episode Paige Roberts explains the benefits of pushing the machine learning processing into the database layer and the approach that Vertica has taken for their implementation. If you are looking for a way to speed up your...

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Taking A Tour Of The Google Cloud Platform For Data And Analytics - Episode 194

June 12, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Taking A Tour Of The Google Cloud Platform For Data And Analytics - Episode 194

Google pioneered an impressive number of the architectural underpinnings of the broader big data ecosystem. Now they offer the technologies that they run internally to external users of their cloud platform. In this episode Lak Lakshmanan enumerates the variety of services that are available for building your various data processing and analytical systems. He shares some of the common patterns for building pipelines to power business intelligence dashboards, machine learning applications, and data warehouses. If you've ever been overwhelmed or confused by the array of services available in the...

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Make Sure Your Records Are Reliable With The BookKeeper Distributed Storage Layer - Episode 193

June 9, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Make Sure Your Records Are Reliable With The BookKeeper Distributed Storage Layer - Episode 193

The way to build maintainable software and systems is through composition of individual pieces. By making those pieces high quality and flexible they can be used in surprising ways that the original creators couldn't have imagined. One such component that has gone above and beyond its originally envisioned use case is BookKeeper, a distributed storage system that is optimized for durability and speed. In this episode Matteo Merli shares the story behind the creation of BookKeeper, the various ways that it is being used today, and the architectural aspects...

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Build Your Analytics With A Collaborative And Expressive SQL IDE Using Querybook - Episode 192

June 3, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Build Your Analytics With A Collaborative And Expressive SQL IDE Using Querybook - Episode 192

SQL is the most widely used language for working with data, and yet the tools available for writing and collaborating on it are still clunky and inefficient. Frustrated with the lack of a modern IDE and collaborative workflow for managing the SQL queries and analysis of their big data environments, the team at Pinterest created Querybook. In this episode Justin Mejorada-Pier and Charlie Gu share the story of how the initial prototype for a data catalog ended up as one of their most widely used interfaces to their analytical...

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Making Data Pipelines Self-Serve For Everyone With Shipyard - Episode 191

June 2, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Making Data Pipelines Self-Serve For Everyone With Shipyard - Episode 191

Every part of the business relies on data, yet only a small team has the context and expertise to build workflows and pipelines to transform, clean, and integrate it. In order for the true value of your data to be realized without burning out your engineers you need a way for everyone to get access to the information they care about. To help make that a more tractable problem Blake Burch co-founded Shipyard. In this episode he explains the utility of a low code solution that lets non engineers...

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Paving The Road For Fast Analytics On Distributed Clouds With The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse - Episode 190

May 28, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Paving The Road For Fast Analytics On Distributed Clouds With The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse - Episode 190

The data warehouse has become the focal point of the modern data platform. With increased usage of data across businesses, and a diversity of locations and environments where data needs to be managed, the warehouse engine needs to be fast and easy to manage. Yellowbrick is a data warehouse platform that was built from the ground up for speed, and can work across clouds and all the way to the edge. In this episode CTO Mark Cusack explains how the engine is architected, the benefits that speed and predictable...

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Easily Build Advanced Similarity Search With The Pinecone Vector Database - Episode 189

May 25, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Easily Build Advanced Similarity Search With The Pinecone Vector Database - Episode 189

Machine learning models use vectors as the natural mechanism for representing their internal state. The problem is that in order for the models to integrate with external systems their internal state has to be translated into a lower dimension. To eliminate this impedance mismatch Edo Liberty founded Pinecone to build database that works natively with vectors. In this episode he explains how this technology will allow teams to accelerate the speed of innovation, how vectors make it possible to build more advanced search functionality, and how Pinecone is architected....

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A Holistic Approach To Data Governance Through Self Reflection At Collibra - Episode 188

May 21, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on A Holistic Approach To Data Governance Through Self Reflection At Collibra - Episode 188

Data governance is a phrase that means many different things to many different people. This is because it is actually a concept that encompasses the entire lifecycle of data, across all of the people in an organization who interact with it. Stijn Christiaens co-founded Collibra with the goal of addressing the wide variety of technological aspects that are necessary to realize such an important and expansive process. In this episode he shares his thoughts on the balance between human and technological processes that are necessary for a well-managed data...

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Unlocking The Power of Data Lineage In Your Platform with OpenLineage - Episode 187

May 18, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Unlocking The Power of Data Lineage In Your Platform with OpenLineage - Episode 187

Data lineage is the common thread that ties together all of your data pipelines, workflows, and systems. In order to get a holistic understanding of your data quality, where errors are occurring, or how a report was constructed you need to track the lineage of the data from beginning to end. The complicating factor is that every framework, platform, and product has its own concepts of how to store, represent, and expose that information. In order to eliminate the wasted effort of building custom integrations every time you want...

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