The practice of DevOps — development operations — has taken organizations by storm. According to a 2021 report by Redgate Software, 74 percent of enterprises surveyed say they now use DevOps in some form or fashion, compared with just 47 percent in 2016. DevOps practitioners seek to improve the software development lifecycle by fostering closer collaboration between developers and IT operations teams.

A database allows multiple users to maintain, update, and edit stored information quickly, securely, and efficiently. That makes a database useful for a host of real-life cases such as keeping track of corporate accounting records, storing huge amounts of data from a network of IoT devices, tracking your company's inventory systems, or building a web application.

A data lakehouse is a data storage repository designed to store both structured data and data from unstructured sources. It allows users to access data stored in different forms, such as text files, CSV or JSON files. Data stored in a data lakehouse can be used for analysis and reporting purposes.

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) pipelines are standard data management techniques among data engineers. Indeed, organizations have long been using these processes to create effective data models. However, there has recently been a remarkable rise in the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based customer relationship management (CRM) apps, such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Hubspot, Zoho, etc., to store and analyze customer data.

Overview With the increasing use and discussion surrounding ChatGPT and its applications, I decided to test out what it says about important skillsets for data engineers. I conducted a search about both soft and hard skills and here is what it came up with. I have added a lot of commentary to each of the 13 skills identified.

It happens a thousand times a day. Every time someone partakes in medical care a record of the care is written. Taken together, there are a LOT of medical records that are written each day. Over time these records form an impressive and important collection of information -

Data integration is essential for businesses to achieve efficient and effective processes. For successful data integration, businesses can choose between in-house software development or outsourcing their data integration needs. Due to the potential risks of developing in-house, it may make sense for your company to outsource your data integration needs to a trusted third party to ensure all your needs are met on time and on budget.

Data fabric is a term used to describe a set of technologies and practices that enable organizations to manage and access data across multiple platforms and environments. This includes supporting an organization’s need to break down data silos, gain more insight into metadata, optimize data sharing across apps and data platforms. Organizations are starting to explore more flexible ways of managing their data ecosystems and ensuring they can leverage data more effectively.