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Manage concurrent write conflicts in Apache Iceberg on the AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Big Data

In modern data architectures, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a popular table format for data lakes, offering key features including ACID transactions and concurrent write support. However, commits can still fail if the latest metadata is updated after the base metadata version is established.

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Expand data access through Apache Iceberg using Delta Lake UniForm on AWS

AWS Big Data

The landscape of big data management has been transformed by the rising popularity of open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. These formats, designed to address the limitations of traditional data storage systems, have become essential in modern data architectures.

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Very Meta … Unlocking Data’s Potential with Metadata Management Solutions

erwin

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

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Run Apache XTable in AWS Lambda for background conversion of open table formats

AWS Big Data

This post was co-written with Dipankar Mazumdar, Staff Data Engineering Advocate with AWS Partner OneHouse. Data architecture has evolved significantly to handle growing data volumes and diverse workloads. This allows the existing data to be interpreted as if it were originally written in any of these formats.

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Data’s dark secret: Why poor quality cripples AI and growth

CIO Business Intelligence

We also examine how centralized, hybrid and decentralized data architectures support scalable, trustworthy ecosystems. As data-centric AI, automated metadata management and privacy-aware data sharing mature, the opportunity to embed data quality into the enterprises core has never been more significant.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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What is a Data Mesh?

DataKitchen

The data mesh design pattern breaks giant, monolithic enterprise data architectures into subsystems or domains, each managed by a dedicated team. The communication between business units and data professionals is usually incomplete and inconsistent. Introduction to Data Mesh. Source: Thoughtworks.