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Seattle Data Guy Blog
6d ago
Have you ever been part of a data or software project that seems stuck in a loop? Three weeks have passed, and although you arrive at work daily, exhausted, having tackled numerous issues, the project remains stagnant. Why? Then, suddenly, a new engineer or project manager steps in, reorganizes and prioritizes tasks, and just like…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
1M ago
Recently, I wrote an article diving into what Druid is and which companies are using it. Now I wanted to do a deeper dive into Apache Druid’s architecture. Apache Druid has several unique features that allow it to be used as a real-time OLAP. Everything from its various nodes and processes that each have unique…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
1M ago
No matter your industry, you’ll often need to make split-second business decisions in the digital age. Real-time data can help you do just that. It’s information that’s made available as soon as it’s created, meaning you don’t need to wait around for the insights you need. Real-time data processing can satisfy the ever-increasing demand for…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
1M ago
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) comes with a lot of functionality useful for extracting, transforming, and loading data. It can also play important roles in application development and other projects. But SSIS is far from the only platform that can provide these services. You might seek alternatives to SSIS because you want a more agile…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
2M ago
Companies that range from start-ups to enterprises are looking to implement AI and ML into their data strategy. With that it’s important not to forget about data quality. Regardless of how fancy or sophisticated a company’s AI model might be, poor data quality will break it. It will make the outputs of these models useless…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
3M ago
I once had an engineer tell me that they essentially didn’t want to consider cost as they were building a solution. I was baffled. Don’t get me wrong, yes, when you’re building, you iterate and aim to improve your solutions cost. But from my perspective, I don’t think completely ignoring costs from day one is…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
3M ago
Big data is big business these days. Organizations that hope to get ahead in crowded markets must utilize data from a variety of often highly disparate sources to understand how they’re performing and what customers are saying about them. However, data without the right analysis and reporting tools is just a waste of digital storage…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
4M ago
It’s that time of year again. When data leaders, VPs and Directors need to start planning out their data roadmap. Of course, this brings up an important question, how should you start planning out your data roadmap? Especially if you’re data team has found itself stuck in the data service trap. Simply providing data and…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
5M ago
Data warehousing would be easy if all data were structured and formatted in the data source. Maybe we wouldn’t even need to build a data warehouse. But as anyone who has worked with data from more than one source knows, that’s rarely the case. Businesses today need to pull data from a plethora of sources,…
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Seattle Data Guy Blog
5M ago
If you’re a data engineer, then you’ve likely at least heard of Airflow. Apache Airflow is one of the most popular open-source workflow orchestration solutions that gets used for data pipelines. This is what spurred me to write the article “Should You Use Airflow” because there are plenty of people who don’t enjoy Airflow or…
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