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analytics engineering consulting

5 Alternatives To Fivetran

Photo by Victoriano Izquierdo on Unsplash Companies that are serious about using raw data for business intelligence need some way to centralize and control that data. Many of them are using specialized vendor products to do so. Fivetran is one choice for getting all of that data wherever it resides and centralizing it in an…
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April 20, 2022 0
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Data Platforms Vs Data Warehouses Vs Data Virtualization And Federated SQL Engine – How To Store Your Data

Photo by Nana Smirnova on Unsplash There is a lot of discussion on how you should implement your data stacks today. Should you bundle or unbundle, should you use a traditional data warehouse, lakes, lake houses, or mesh? Or a hybrid of all of them? With all these different ways you can put together your…
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March 29, 2022 0
big data consulting

What Is Trino And Why Is It Great At Processing Big Data

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash Big data is touted as the solution to many problems. However, the truth is, big data has caused a lot of big problems. Yes, big data can provide more context and provide insights we have never had before. It also makes queries slow, data expensive to manage, requires a lot of expensive…
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December 2, 2021 0
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Snowflake Vs BigQuery — Two Cloud Data Warehouses Of Many – Setting Up Your Data In The Modern Data Stack

It’s becoming difficult to keep track of all the new data warehouse solutions that are trying to challenge the current incumbents. Choosing the best data warehouse to meet the needs and objectives of your operation is a crucial component of your business strategy. Unfortunately, many organizations are still struggling with this decision. To add to…
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September 29, 2021 0
segment data consulting

What Is Segment And Why You Should Use It For Your Customer Data Platform

Companies of all sizes are looking for faster and easier ways to take advantage of data through analytics and BI. In particular, knowing who your customers are, how they interact with your business, products and services is a modern necessity. In a customer-centric world where data can help improve the overall customer experience and relationships,…
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August 8, 2021 0
data engineering consulting

What Is The Modern Data Stack And Why You Need to Migrate to the It

Photo by Myriam Jessier on Unsplash The modern data stack (MDS) is a new approach to data integration capable of saving your engineers time while allowing both engineers and analysts to focus on high-value pursuits. With a suite of tools to support data integration, the modern data stack will free your teams of monotony while empowering…
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August 4, 2021 0
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Data Engineering Roadmap For 2021 – 12 Steps To Help You Go From 0 To Data Engineering

Maybe it’s the 6 figure salaries, the opportunity to work with cool technology or people are finally learning that data engineering is where everything starts in the data field. Whatever the reason, people are noticing. VCs are investing in data storage and ingestion platforms and companies are interviewing more data engineers compared to previous years. But how…
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July 9, 2021 1
data engineering scaling hiring

Scaling a Data Analytics Team for a Billion Dollar Start-Up With Veronica Zhai Of Fivetran

Scaling data talent is hard. It’s hard to hire. Hard to grow and just overall hard in terms of managing processes and output. But there are brilliant leaders and managers doing it everyday. I recently interviewed Veronica Zhai, the principal product manager at Fivetran. She has led Fivetran’s analytical team for nearly the last year…
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July 4, 2021 0
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Is Data Engineering For You? Maybe you’re a recovering data scientist?

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Why does it feel like so many more articles are discussing the data engineering profession? Perhaps it’s because Dice’s 2020 tech jobs report cites data engineering as the fastest-growing field in 2020, increasing by a staggering 50%, while data science roles only increased by 10%? Or maybe it’s just because the Medium…
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June 23, 2021 0
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3 Heads Of Data And Founders Perspective On Where Data Is Going

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash 2021 is almost halfway over and it seems like hundreds of millions of dollars has gone into investing in data, data start-ups and machine learning. In particular funding has also shifted heavily from just focusing on the data science and machine learning space to the data engineering and data management…
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May 27, 2021 0