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Yugabyte: Where Data Lives Forever!

From building Geo-Distributed-Engineering-Teams to helping build Geo-Distributed-Cloud-Native-Apps! — In this post, I'd like to share insights based on my experience leading Enterprise Data Engineering at a Fortune 200 Retail, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Chemicals company; how I landed at Yugabyte; and why I believe in YugabyteDB? — — — — — The Past — — — —…

Distributed Sql

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Yugabyte: Where Data Lives Forever!
Yugabyte: Where Data Lives Forever!
Distributed Sql

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Building a Data Engineering Center of Excellence

Essential components for building a functioning data engineering practice relevant to the current day at scale. — As data continues to grow in importance and become more complex, the need for skilled data engineers has never been greater. But what is data engineering, and why is it so important? In this blog post, we will discuss the essential components of a functioning data engineering practice and why…

Data Engineering

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Building a Data Engineering Center of Excellence
Building a Data Engineering Center of Excellence
Data Engineering

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Mar 22

Modern Data Modeling

10 Rules for Effective Dimensional Modeling for Data in the cloud — In this blog post, I’ll share the modern data modeling concepts that I’ve implemented as standards across my former team of data engineers and modelers at a Fortune 200 enterprise. Specifically, I’ll delve into the roles of data modeler and data engineer in designing a physical database, while addressing…

Data

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Modern Data Modeling
Modern Data Modeling
Data

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Mar 14, 2022

Snowflake vs RedShift vs BigQuery

Comparing Snowflake vs AWS RedShift vs Google BigQuery Jan 2022 The cloud has changed the way we think about data. No longer are we tethered to physical infrastructure and expensive hardware. Now, we can spin up a data platform or warehouse in minutes, and pay only for what we use…

Data

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Snowflake vs RedShift vs BigQuery
Snowflake vs RedShift vs BigQuery
Data

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Sep 12, 2021

Delta-Sharing, the difficulties are Blaring!

Databricks >> Delta-Lake >> Delta-Sharing : Setup & Review — What is Databricks? A data management and processing platform provided by the creators of Apache Spark. Shares the same name as the company ‘Databricks’. Built on top of the Apache Spark engine with a unified processing interface across all platforms. Delta Sharing Conceptually Delta Sharing as a service is to allow data to…

Databricks

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Delta-Sharing, the difficulties are Blaring!
Delta-Sharing, the difficulties are Blaring!
Databricks

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Jun 24, 2021

11 Steps for understanding Confluent Kafka for Data Engineers!

Before you invest in Confluent $CFLT IPO, you might want to learn about Kafka. ;) — Apache Kafka common benefits are building data pipelines, leveraging real-time data streams, enabling operational metrics, and data integration across countless data sources. 11 Step technical architecture for building Kafka based DataStreams: Cluster Reference Architecture A Confluent Platform cluster that is built for high-throughput long-term scalability will have an architecture similar to the following:

Kafka

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11 Steps  for understanding Confluent Kafka for Data Engineers!
11 Steps  for understanding Confluent Kafka for Data Engineers!
Kafka

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Mar 15, 2021

Securing sensitive & PII data on Snowflake

4 Data Security services available for securing data on Snowflake. — Sensitive Data needs to be organized, protected, and used. Enterprises needing additional user level security for governing sensitive PII data within Snowflakes Data Cloud need to resort to plenty of scripting to manage the roles, users & policies within Snowflake or use one of the many vendor services available…

Snowflake

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Securing sensitive & PII data on Snowflake
Securing sensitive & PII data on Snowflake
Snowflake

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Jan 14, 2021

ETL/ELT vs iPaaS

The differences between an ETL/ELT tool vs an iPaaS are below.

Data

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Why Dell Boomi can’t be used as an ETL tool!
Why Dell Boomi can’t be used as an ETL tool!
Data

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Aug 24, 2020

Storing Image files in Snowflake database & presenting them via Tableau dashboards!

Storing un-structured Image files in Snowflake database from Azure blog. This post lists end-to-end process for viewing web hosted images in Tableau in 6 easy steps. This process involves integration between Azure blob storage and Snowflake database. Below are high level step’s involved. 1) Create external BLOB storage to save image files in Azure cloud. 2) Create cloud storage integration…

Tableau

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Storing Image files in Snowflake database & presenting them via Tableau dashboards!
Storing Image files in Snowflake database & presenting them via Tableau dashboards!
Tableau

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Aug 15, 2020

Snowflake database ODBC Setup for SAP Business Objects

Server & Client setups. — Install BOTH Snowflake ODBC drivers. Don’t change any install paths, these must go where the install says. This will appear for all the copy and renaming. Click Continue and then Yes on the next screen.

Snowflake Computing

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Snowflake database ODBC Setup for SAP Business Objects
Snowflake database ODBC Setup for SAP Business Objects
Snowflake Computing

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Richie Bachala

Richie Bachala

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Distributed SQL, Data Engineering Leader @ Yugabyte | past @ Sherwin-Williams, Hitachi, Oracle

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