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Metadata Management Best Practices: How to Plan Your Metadata Management Program

Octopai

Metadata has been defined as the who, what, where, when, why, and how of data. Without the context given by metadata, data is just a bunch of numbers and letters. But going on a rampage to define, categorize, and otherwise metadata-ize your data doesn’t necessarily give you the key to the value in your data. Hold on tight!

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Build event-driven data pipelines using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes and Amazon EMR on EKS

AWS Big Data

An event-driven architecture is a software design pattern in which decoupled applications can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events via an event broker. Another option is to use AWS Step Functions , which is a serverless workflow service that integrates with EMR on EKS and EventBridge to build event-driven workflows.

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Top 10 Metadata Management Influencers, Sites, and Blogs You Must Follow in 2021

Octopai

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story. Donna Burbank. Dataconomy.

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Metadata Archiving with Snowflake

CDW Research Hub

The importance of metadata. Metadata is best defined as data that characterizes data. Metadata provides the who, what, where, when, why and how of that information. When companies have a properly engineered process to create, store and manage metadata, it benefits all focus areas of the business. ORDER BY SCHEDULED_TIME.

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Automated Metadata Management Tools: Why Some Companies Struggle and Others Flourish During Corona

Octopai

Right smack in the middle of Q1, the entire world was hit with a compelling event whose impact we are only just beginning to wrap our heads around. Organizations are turning to the cloud and automated metadata management tools to successfully manage their business’s data. Stranger Things: The New Reality of Corona. Watch the Webinar.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

The zero-copy pattern helps customers map the data from external platforms into the Salesforce metadata model, providing a virtual object definition for that object. “It When released, this will extend zero-copy data access to any open data lake or lakehouse that stores data in Iceberg or can provide Iceberg metadata for its table.

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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

Iceberg tables store metadata in manifest files. As the number of data files increase, the amount of metadata stored in these manifest files also increases, leading to longer query planning time. The query runtime also increases because it’s proportional to the number of data or metadata file read operations.