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Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for Data Engineering Projects: A Comprehensive Guide

DZone

Data engineering projects often require the setup and management of complex infrastructures that support data processing, storage, and analysis. In this article, we will explore the benefits of leveraging IaC for data engineering projects and provide detailed implementation steps to get started.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Samuel Setegne

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

DZone

The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go. This is achieved through practices like Infrastructure as Code for deployments, automated testing, application observability, and end-to-end application lifecycle ownership.

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Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow

The Netflix TechBlog

One of the main reasons this feature exists is just like with food samples, to give you “a taste” of the production quality ETL code that you could encounter inside the Netflix data ecosystem. " , country_code STRING COMMENT "Country code of the playback session." Let’s review the transformation steps below.

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Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow

The Netflix TechBlog

any business logic code in a raw (e.g. JAR) form to be executed as part of the user defined data pipeline. data pipeline ?—?a DAG) for the purpose of transforming data using some business logic. Or what if Alice wanted to add new backup functionality and she accidentally broke existing code while updating it?

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Analytics at Netflix: Who we are and what we do

The Netflix TechBlog

coding, math, stats), and do what’s required to answer the highest priority business questions. The Engineer enjoys making data available by piping it in from new sources in optimal ways, building robust data models, prototyping systems, and doing project-specific engineering.

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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

IT automation is the practice of using coded instructions to carry out IT tasks without human intervention. At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. What is IT automation?