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Best Practices for Metadata Management

Alation

What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about data. A clothing catalog or dictionary are both examples of metadata repositories. Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata.

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Enhance monitoring and debugging for AWS Glue jobs using new job observability metrics, Part 3: Visualization and trend analysis using Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

QuickSight makes it straightforward for business users to visualize data in interactive dashboards and reports. An AWS Glue crawler scans data on the S3 bucket and populates table metadata on the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Looking at the Skewness Job per Job visualization, there was spike on November 1, 2023.

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Visualize Amazon DynamoDB insights in Amazon QuickSight using the Amazon Athena DynamoDB connector and AWS Glue

AWS Big Data

DynamoDB offers built-in security, continuous backups, automated multi-Region replication, in-memory caching, and data import and export tools. The scalability and flexible data schema of DynamoDB make it well-suited for a variety of use cases. Data stored in DynamoDB is the basis for valuable business intelligence (BI) insights.

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CRM’s Have a Big Data Technical Debt Problem: Here’s How to Fix It

Smart Data Collective

Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms are very reliant on big data. As these platforms become more widely used, some of the data resources they depend on become more stretched. CRM providers need to find ways to address the technical debt problem they are facing through new big data initiatives.

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The Missing Link in Enterprise Data Governance: Metadata

Octopai

In order to figure out why the numbers in the two reports didn’t match, Steve needed to understand everything about the data that made up those reports – when the report was created, who created it, any changes made to it, which system it was created in, etc. Enterprise data governance. Metadata in data governance.

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Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

AWS Big Data

Data engineers use Apache Iceberg because it’s fast, efficient, and reliable at any scale and keeps records of how datasets change over time. Apache Iceberg offers integrations with popular data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Hive, Presto, and more.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architect role Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations. Data architect vs. data engineer The data architect and data engineer roles are closely related.