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Did Big Data Deliver Business Transformation & Improved CX?

Alation

“Cloud has not replaced big data but lowered the cost of entry,” says Gildersleeve. “Setting up Hadoop on-premises was a huge undertaking. Spark, Tensorflow, Apache Kafka, et cetera, are all out found in cloud databases,” points out Jones. A key challenge of legacy approaches involved data quality.

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How data engineers tame Big Data?

Dataconomy

Data engineers play a crucial role in managing and processing big data Ensuring data quality and integrity Data quality and integrity are essential for accurate data analysis. Data engineers are responsible for ensuring that the data collected is accurate, consistent, and reliable.

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The Backbone of Data Engineering: 5 Key Architectural Patterns Explained

Mlearning.ai

The events can be published to a message broker such as Apache Kafka or Google Cloud Pub/Sub. The message broker can then distribute the events to various subscribers such as data processing pipelines, machine learning models, and real-time analytics dashboards.