Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 14, 2025

How dbt Core aids data teams test, validate, and monitor complex data transformations and conversions Photo by NASA on Unsplash Introduction dbt Core, an open-source framework for developing, testing, and documenting SQL-based data transformations, has become a must-have tool for modern data teams as the complexity of data pipelines grows.

Data Transformation 52

Data Transformation Testing Unstructured Data Data Quality 52

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A modern data platform entails maintaining data across multiple layers, targeting diverse platform capabilities like high performance, ease of development, cost-effectiveness, and DataOps features such as CI/CD, lineage, and unit testing. It does this by helping teams handle the T in ETL (extract, transform, and load) processes.

Data Warehouse 126

Data Warehouse Testing Data Quality Reporting 126

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 30, 2025

Our approach The migration initiative consisted of two main parts: building the new architecture and migrating data pipelines from the existing tool to the new architecture. Often, we would work on both in parallel, testing one component of the architecture while developing another at the same time.

Data Warehouse 55

Data Warehouse Data Architecture Machine Learning Data Transformation 55

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Enterprise data is brought into data lakes and data warehouses to carry out analytical, reporting, and data science use cases using AWS analytical services like Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshift , Amazon EMR , and so on. A question arises on what level of details we need to include in the table metadata.

Metadata 105

Metadata Data Lake Modeling Data Warehouse 105

DataKitchen

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data operations (or data production) is a series of pipeline procedures that take raw data, progress through a series of processing and transformation steps, and output finished products in the form of dashboards, predictions, data warehouses or whatever the business requires. Their product is the data.

Testing 152

Testing Dashboards Measurement Experimentation 152

DataKitchen

JULY 27, 2023

Azure Synapse Analytics Pipelines: Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL Data Warehouse) provides data exploration, data preparation, data management, and data warehousing capabilities. It provides data prep, management, and enterprise data warehousing tools. It does the job.

Machine Learning 130

Machine Learning Cost-Benefit Data Transformation Testing 130

AWS Big Data

JUNE 19, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. All columns should masked for them.

Data Warehouse 114

Data Warehouse Testing Sales Structured Data 114

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 9, 2024

Dafiti’s data infrastructure relies heavily on ETL and ELT processes, with approximately 2,500 unique processes run daily. Amazon Redshift at Dafiti Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service, and was adopted by Dafiti in 2017. We started with 115 dc2.large We removed the DC2 cluster and completed the migration.

Data Lake 110

Data Lake Analytics Data Warehouse Data-driven 110

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

dbt is an open source, SQL-first templating engine that allows you to write repeatable and extensible data transforms in Python and SQL. dbt is predominantly used by data warehouses (such as Amazon Redshift ) customers who are looking to keep their data transform logic separate from storage and engine.

Data Lake 121

Data Lake Management Metrics Data Warehouse 121

Smart Data Collective

APRIL 29, 2020

The extraction of raw data, transforming to a suitable format for business needs, and loading into a data warehouse. Data transformation. This process helps to transform raw data into clean data that can be analysed and aggregated. Data analytics and visualisation.

Management 99

Management Data Warehouse Digital Transformation Dashboards 99

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To speed up the self-service analytics and foster innovation based on data, a solution was needed to provide ways to allow any team to create data products on their own in a decentralized manner. To create and manage the data products, smava uses Amazon Redshift , a cloud data warehouse.

Data Lake 115

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven B2B 115

datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With quality data at their disposal, organizations can form data warehouses for the purposes of examining trends and establishing future-facing strategies. Industry-wide, the positive ROI on quality data is well understood. Here, it all comes down to the data transformation error rate.

Data Quality 241

Data Quality Metrics Data-driven Management 241

Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2022

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the open source adapters for dbt for all the engines in CDP — Apache Hive , Apache Impala , and Apache Spark, with added support for Apache Livy and Cloudera Data Engineering. This variety can result in a lack of standardization, leading to data duplication and inconsistency.

Data Warehouse 81

Data Warehouse Data Transformation Machine Learning Data Lake 81

Cloudera

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In the beginning, CDP ran only on AWS with a set of services that supported a handful of use cases and workload types: CDP Data Warehouse: a kubernetes-based service that allows business analysts to deploy data warehouses with secure, self-service access to enterprise data. That Was Then. New Services.

Data Warehouse 97

Data Warehouse Machine Learning Visualization Data Lake 97

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehousing service that offers both provisioned and serverless options, making it more efficient to run and scale analytics without having to manage your data warehouse. These upstream data sources constitute the data producer components.

Data Warehouse 110

Data Warehouse Analytics Data Lake Data Science 110

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

As data volumes and use cases scale especially with AI and real-time analytics trust must be an architectural principle, not an afterthought. Comparison of modern data architectures : Architecture Definition Strengths Weaknesses Best used when Data warehouse Centralized, structured and curated data repository.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

Enterprise 110

Enterprise Data Warehouse Data Lake Optimization 110

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Each CDH dataset has three processing layers: source (raw data), prepared (transformed data in Parquet), and semantic (combined datasets). It is possible to define stages (DEV, INT, PROD) in each layer to allow structured release and test without affecting PROD.

Analytics 110

Analytics Dashboards Metadata Data Warehouse 110

Cloudera

JULY 21, 2022

Cloudera users can securely connect Rill to a source of event stream data, such as Cloudera DataFlow , model data into Rill’s cloud-based Druid service, and share live operational dashboards within minutes via Rill’s interactive metrics dashboard or any connected BI solution. Cloudera Data Warehouse). Apache Hive.

Metrics 87

Metrics Slice and Dice Data Warehouse Dashboards 87

Cloudera

AUGUST 8, 2022

The general availability covers Iceberg running within some of the key data services in CDP, including Cloudera Data Warehouse ( CDW ), Cloudera Data Engineering ( CDE ), and Cloudera Machine Learning ( CML ). Cloudera Data Engineering (Spark 3) with Airflow enabled. Cloudera Machine Learning .

Snapshot 94

Snapshot Data Warehouse Machine Learning Cost-Benefit 94

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 6, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze your data. Example data The following code shows an example of raw order data from the stream: Record1: { "orderID":"101", "email":" john.

Data Warehouse 104

Data Warehouse Data-driven Modeling Internet of Things 104

Cloudera

JUNE 30, 2022

These tools empower analysts and data scientists to easily collaborate on the same data, with their choice of tools and analytic engines. No more lock-in, unnecessary data transformations, or data movement across tools and clouds just to extract insights out of the data.

Data Lake 88

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data Architecture Metadata 88

AWS Big Data

MARCH 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service that tens of thousands of customers use to manage analytics at scale. Together with price-performance , Amazon Redshift enables you to use your data to acquire new insights for your business and customers while keeping costs low.

Data Warehouse 52

Data Warehouse Testing Snapshot Modeling 52

CDW Research Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2019

As we review data transformation and modernization strategies with our clients, we find many are investigating Snowflake as a data warehouse solution due to its ease of use, speed, and increased flexibility over a traditional data warehouse offering. Validate and test through the entire migration.

Data Warehouse 40

Data Warehouse Testing Strategy Data-driven 40

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon Redshift enables you to run complex SQL analytics at scale and performance on terabytes to petabytes of structured and unstructured data, and make the insights widely available through popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools.

Data Quality 98

Data Quality Testing Data Warehouse Unstructured Data 98

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Data transforms businesses. That’s where the data lifecycle comes into play. Managing data and its flow, from the edge to the cloud, is one of the most important tasks in the process of gaining data intelligence. . The firm also worked on creating a solid pipeline from the data warehouse to the data lake.

Data Lake 77

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data Architecture Reporting 77

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

To fuel self-service analytics and provide the real-time information customers and internal stakeholders need to meet customers’ shipping requirements, the Richmond, VA-based company, which operates a fleet of more than 8,500 tractors and 34,000 trailers, has embarked on a data transformation journey to improve data integration and data management.

Data Strategy 111

Data Strategy Strategy Data Governance Marketing 111

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Apache Hive is a distributed, fault-tolerant data warehouse system that enables analytics at a massive scale. Spark SQL is an Apache Spark module for structured data processing. Navigate to the side menu Virtual clusters , then select the HiveDemo cluster , You can see an entry for the SparkSQL test job.

Big Data 105

Big Data Data Processing Interactive Testing 105

Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

The modern data stack is a combination of various software tools used to collect, process, and store data on a well-integrated cloud-based data platform. It is known to have benefits in handling data due to its robustness, speed, and scalability. A typical modern data stack consists of the following: A data warehouse.

Data Warehouse 52

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data Science Data Transformation 52

AWS Big Data

MAY 25, 2023

Data transformation plays a pivotal role in providing the necessary data insights for businesses in any organization, small and large. To gain these insights, customers often perform ETL (extract, transform, and load) jobs from their source systems and output an enriched dataset.

Reporting 97

Reporting Metrics Optimization Data Lake 97

Insight

APRIL 8, 2020

Data architects and data modelers who specialize in areas such as schema design, identifying query access patterns and building and maintaining data warehouses. The problem requires use of one or two foundational data structures and details some sort of analysis that we’d like performed on a dataset.

Data Warehouse 96

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Software Optimization 96

AWS Big Data

APRIL 27, 2023

With these features, you can now build data pipelines completely in standard SQL that are serverless, more simple to build, and able to operate at scale. Typically, data transformation processes are used to perform this operation, and a final consistent view is stored in an S3 bucket or folder.

Data Lake 98

Data Lake Snapshot Optimization Data Transformation 98

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 18, 2023

They defined it as : “ A data lakehouse is a new, open data management architecture that combines the flexibility, cost-efficiency, and scale of data lakes with the data management and ACID transactions of data warehouses, enabling business intelligence (BI) and machine learning (ML) on all data. ”.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven Metadata 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Tricentis is the global leader in continuous testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications. Speed changes everything, and continuous testing across the entire CI/CD lifecycle is the key. Tricentis instills that confidence by providing software tools that enable Agile Continuous Testing (ACT) at scale.

Software 52

Software Data Lake Testing Dashboards 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 17, 2023

It is supported by querying, governance, and open data formats to access and share data across the hybrid cloud. Through workload optimization across multiple query engines and storage tiers, organizations can reduce data warehouse costs by up to 50 percent. How you can get started today Test out watsonx.ai

Machine Learning 62

Machine Learning Data Warehouse Modeling Cost-Benefit 62

erwin

JANUARY 11, 2019

Organizations have spent a lot of time and money trying to harmonize data across diverse platforms , including cleansing, uploading metadata, converting code, defining business glossaries, tracking data transformations and so on. And there’s control of that landscape to facilitate insight and collaboration and limit risk.

Data Governance 40

Data Governance Risk Metadata Management 40

Alation

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Data analysts and engineers use dbt to transform, test, and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Yet every dbt transformation contains vital metadata that is not captured – until now. Data Transformation in the Modern Data Stack. How did the data transform exactly?

Metadata 52

Metadata Metrics Recreation/Entertainment Data Quality 52