What’s the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing Excel is Turing-complete. Wisdom is not using Excel as your database. The best data engineering tools make your life easier. Speed up processes, simplify complex operations, give you insights into the machinery, and maybe save some $ along the way. In this article, we’ll give you an overview of the 7 best data tools for data engineering use cases.

Data warehousing requires data centralization, whereas data mesh enables a decentralized approach to data access. Organizations might think that the solution to their data management strategy requires a choice between the two, but the reality is that both approaches can and should co-exist.

Connected-Stories NEXT is an end-to-end creative management platform built on Google Cloud to develop, serve, and optimize interactive video and display ads that scale across any channel.

‍Completely unrelated to the unfolding events at a prominent social media company, we thought it is a good idea to highlight some anti-patterns to measuring productivity, and a few things that should be common sense to do instead.

Stream processing is about creating business value by applying logic to your data while it is in motion. Many times that involves combining data sources to enrich a data stream. Flink SQL does this and directs the results of whatever functions you apply to the data into a sink.

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This is a guest post for Integrate.io written by Bill Inmon, an American computer scientist recognized as the "father of the data warehouse." Inmon wrote the first book and first magazine column about data warehousing, held the first conference about this topic, and was the first person to teach data warehousing classes. Five things to know about this topic.

Data integration can be a daunting task, and data engineers usually prefer open-source ETL solutions because of their transparency (you can always inspect the code), flexibility (tinker with the tool), and price performance (no vendor licenses, no maintenance fees). But there are many “gotchas!” with open-source tools you need to consider before picking the best tool for the job.

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Business monitoring is essential to a company’s success. Whether you’re improving efficiency, saving costs, planning inventory, or tracking goals, you need to define metrics and monitor them regularly to make progress. With ThoughtSpot, business monitoring is an intuitive experience that starts with visualizing your KPIs in real-time so you can take action when there’s movement.