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> Per this email thread, it almost sounds like a slack team/discourse for
> data engineering might be useful.
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I certainly would not mind getting more knowledge on this topic and I'd
like to be invited to such a slack group (or google group).
There's also monetdb and greenplum, depending on your data size, which
https://www.monetdb.org, which support columnar tables if you want to get your
feet wet. If your data is actually more array-like, you might try out scidb.
Per this email thread, it almost sounds like a slack team/discourse f
@Gerard - I mentioned Vertica just as one of the first examples of a system
that offers columnar storage. You might actually see a significant benefit
using columnar storage with even a smaller table, as small as a few GB -
Columnar storage works well if you have wide fact tables with many columns
Max, really really nice post and I like your style of writing - please
continue sharing your experience and inspire many of us working in more
traditional environments ;) I shared your post with our leadership and
hopefully we will have data engineers soon on our team! As far as UI vs.
coding, I am
You mentioned Vertica and Parquet. Is it recommended to use these newer
tools even when the DWH is not BigData
size (about 150G in size) ?
So there are a couple of good benefits, but are there any downsides and
disadvantages you have to take into account
comparing Vertica vs. SQL Server for exampl
Glad to hear the article resonated with you! I just now got interviewed on
a podcast on this very subject, it should be up sometime this week:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/data-engineering-podcast/id1193040557
It's less structured than the article, but you can hear me babble about
data engi
Maxime,
Just wanted to thank you for writing this article - much like the original
articles by Jeff Hammerbacher and DJ Patil coining the term "Data
Scientist", I feel this article stands as a great explanation of what the
title of "Data Engineer" means today.. As someone who has been working in
t
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Maxime Beauchemin <
maximebeauche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey I just published an article about the "Data Engineer" role in modern
> organizations and thought it could be of interest to this community.
>
> https://medium.com/@maximebeauchemin/the-rise-of-the-data
Hey I just published an article about the "Data Engineer" role in modern
organizations and thought it could be of interest to this community.
https://medium.com/@maximebeauchemin/the-rise-of-the-data-engineer-91be18f1e603#.5rkm4htnf
Max
