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Connecting To The Next Frontier Of Computing With Quantum Networks - Episode 282

April 18, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Connecting To The Next Frontier Of Computing With Quantum Networks - Episode 282

The next paradigm shift in computing is coming in the form of quantum technologies. Quantum procesors have gained significant attention for their speed and computational power. The next frontier is in quantum networking for highly secure communications and the ability to distribute across quantum processing units without costly translation between quantum and classical systems. In this episode Prineha Narang, co-founder and CTO of Aliro, explains how these systems work, the capabilities that they can offer, and how you can start preparing for a post-quantum future for your data systems.

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What Does It Really Mean To Do MLOps And What Is The Data Engineer's Role? - Episode 281

April 16, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on What Does It Really Mean To Do MLOps And What Is The Data Engineer's Role? - Episode 281

Putting machine learning models into production and keeping them there requires investing in well-managed systems to manage the full lifecycle of data cleaning, training, deployment and monitoring. This requires a repeatable and evolvable set of processes to keep it functional. The term MLOps has been coined to encapsulate all of these principles and the broader data community is working to establish a set of best practices and useful guidelines for streamlining adoption. In this episode Demetrios Brinkmann and David Aponte share their perspectives on this rapidly changing space and...

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DataOps As A Service For Your Data Integration Workflows With Rivery - Episode 280

April 11, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on DataOps As A Service For Your Data Integration Workflows With Rivery - Episode 280

Data engineering is a practice that is multi-faceted and requires integration with a large number of systems. This often means working across multiple tools to get the job done which can introduce significant cost to productivity due to the number of context switches. Rivery is a platform designed to reduce this incidental complexity and provide a single system for working across the different stages of the data lifecycle. In this episode CEO and founder Itamar Ben hemo explains how his experiences in the industry led to his vision for...

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Synthetic Data As A Service For Simplifying Privacy Engineering With Gretel - Episode 279

April 10, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Synthetic Data As A Service For Simplifying Privacy Engineering With Gretel - Episode 279

Any time that you are storing data about people there are a number of privacy and security considerations that come with it. Privacy engineering is a growing field in data management that focuses on how to protect attributes of personal data so that the containing datasets can be shared safely. In this episode Gretel co-founder and CTO John Myers explains how they are building tools for data engineers and analysts to incorporate privacy engineering techniques into their workflows and validate the safety of their data against re-identification attacks.

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Accelerate Development Of Enterprise Analytics With The Coalesce Visual Workflow Builder - Episode 278

April 3, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Accelerate Development Of Enterprise Analytics With The Coalesce Visual Workflow Builder - Episode 278

The flexibility of software oriented data workflows is useful for fulfilling complex requirements, but for simple and repetitious use cases it adds significant complexity. Coalesce is a platform designed to reduce repetitive work for common workflows by adopting a visual pipeline builder to support your data warehouse transformations. In this episode Satish Jayanthi explains how he is building a framework to allow enterprises to move quickly while maintaining guardrails for data workflows. This allows everyone in the business to participate in data analysis in a sustainable manner.

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Repeatable Patterns For Designing Data Platforms And When To Customize Them - Episode 277

April 3, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Repeatable Patterns For Designing Data Platforms And When To Customize Them - Episode 277

Building a data platform for your organization is a challenging undertaking. Building multiple data platforms for other organizations as a service without burning out is another thing entirely. In this episode Brandon Beidel from Red Ventures shares his experiences as a data product manager in charge of helping his customers build scalable analytics systems that fit their needs. He explains the common patterns that have been useful across multiple use cases, as well as when and how to build customized solutions.

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Eliminate The Bottlenecks In Your Key/Value Storage With SpeeDB - Episode 276

March 27, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Eliminate The Bottlenecks In Your Key/Value Storage With SpeeDB - Episode 276

At the foundational layer many databases and data processing engines rely on key/value storage for managing the layout of information on the disk. RocksDB is one of the most popular choices for this component and has been incorporated into popular systems such as ksqlDB. As these systems are scaled to larger volumes of data and higher throughputs the RocksDB engine can become a bottleneck for performance. In this episode Adi Gelvan shares the work that he and his team at SpeeDB have put into building a drop-in replacement for...

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Building A Data Governance Bridge Between Cloud And Datacenters For The Enterprise At Privacera - Episode 275

March 27, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Building A Data Governance Bridge Between Cloud And Datacenters For The Enterprise At Privacera - Episode 275

Data governance is a practice that requires a high degree of flexibility and collaboration at the organizational and technical levels. The growing prominence of cloud and hybrid environments in data management adds additional stress to an already complex endeavor. Privacera is an enterprise grade solution for cloud and hybrid data governance built on top of the robust and battle tested Apache Ranger project. In this episode Balaji Ganesan shares how his experiences building and maintaining Ranger in previous roles helped him understand the needs of organizations and engineers as...

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Exploring Incident Management Strategies For Data Teams - Episode 274

March 20, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Exploring Incident Management Strategies For Data Teams - Episode 274

Data assets and the pipelines that create them have become critical production infrastructure for companies. This adds a requirement for reliability and management of up-time similar to application infrastructure. In this episode Francisco Alberini and Mei Tao share their insights on what incident management looks like for data platforms and the teams that support them.

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Accelerate Your Embedded Analytics With Apache Pinot - Episode 273

March 20, 2022 tmacey Comments Off on Accelerate Your Embedded Analytics With Apache Pinot - Episode 273

Data and analytics are permeating every system, including customer-facing applications. The introduction of embedded analytics to an end-user product creates a significant shift in requirements for your data layer. The Pinot OLAP datastore was created for this purpose, optimizing for low latency queries on rapidly updating datasets with highly concurrent queries. In this episode Kishore Gopalakrishna and Xiang Fu explain how it is able to achieve those characteristics, their work at StarTree to make it more easily available, and how you can start using it for your own high...

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