Data Lake vs Data Warehouse: What’s the Difference?
Do you ever wonder where your information is stored when you log into any of your online accounts? What about when you take a picture and back it up on the cloud, where does it go and how is it stored? There’s a whole science around data storage, and you may have heard the terms […]
Data Mesh and the Rise of Data Lakehouse
Contributor: Rick Arnett Data Mesh is a new paradigm for managing enterprise data. Created in 2019 by Zhamak Dehghani, it directly addresses some of the biggest challenges facing data architects and data engineers head-on. It also borrows ideas from big IT Agile, microservices, and domain driven development. Before we talk about data mesh, let’s take […]
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Snowflake Summit 2022 is Over – Here’s What We’ve Learned
Contributor: Matt McGorrey Snowflake is more than just cloud data storage Following Snowflake Summit 2022, it’s clear that the company wants to be the number one “data cloud,” and that means more than just storing data. Snowflake wants their platform to support the next generation of data science, analytics, and data-first applications. They announced Native […]
How To Easily Connect Your Data to Snowflake with Snowpark
Snowflake recently hosted Snowpark Day: a showcase of Snowflake’s developer-friendly framework. Snowpark gives developers the tools to flip, spin, and grind data using the gear they already know. The gear in this case is Python, Java, or Scala – the languages Snowpark supports; and the tricks are the ability to execute queries, load data, and […]
10 Tips to Use Snowflake to Overhaul Your Data
When most people hear the word “snowflake,” they think of cold days and long nights. But some get excited, and anyone in the data business knows exactly why. Snowflake is an analytic Data Cloud that is much faster, easier to use, and more versatile than its peers. It’s a SaaS platform that makes use of […]
Good News: We Specialize in Data Engineering So You Don’t Have To
Businesses today, both large and small, are making significant investments in replacing manual, paper-based processes and legacy IT to modern, real-time, data-driven systems that are easily integrated. The initial driver for this shift, commonly referred to as “digital transformation,” was the replacement of paper-based processes with digital ones. Now, many firms have moved beyond “lifting […]
Why Modernize Your Organizational Structure for Modern Data Infrastructure Now
In a previous blog post, I talked about the importance of data agility in an organization. As mentioned in that post, data agility is defined by TDWI as: “how fast can you extract value from your mountains of data and how quickly can you translate that information into action?” For business, the translation is about […]