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What's new on the cloud for data engineers - part 12 (10.2023-02.2024)

It's time for another part of "What's new on the cloud for data engineers". Let's see what happened in the last 5 months.

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Vertical autoscaling for data processing on the cloud

The "vertical scaling" has caught my attention a few times already when I have been reading about cloud updates. I've always considered horizontal scaling as the single true scaling policy for elastic data processing pipelines. Have I been wrong?

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What's new on the cloud for data engineers - part 11 (06-09.2023)

It's time for another part of "What's new on the cloud for data engineers". Let's see what happened in the last 4 months.

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Don't sleep when you code...about sleep issue in KPL

Lessons learned why it's always worth checking the code implementation to avoid surprises later. Even for vendor-supported solutions.

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What's new on the cloud for data engineers - part 10 (03-05.2023)

It's time for another part of "What's new on the cloud for data engineers". Let's see what happened in the last 3 months.

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Kinesis sequence number is not an Apache Kafka offset

I have used to say "Kinesis Data Streams is like Apache Kafka, an append-only streaming broker with partitions and offsets". Although often it's true, it's not that simple unfortunately.

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Amazon Kinesis is not Apache Kafka

Open Source tools helped me switch to the cloud world a lot. The managed cloud services often share the same fundamentals as their Open alternatives. However, there is always something different. Today I'll focus on these differences for Amazon Kinesis service and Apache Kafka ecosystem.

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What's new on the cloud for data engineers - part 9 (01-03.2023)

Have you missed any cloud data engineering-related news in the last 3 months? No worries, I got you covered with the new part of the "What's new on the cloud for data engineers..." series.

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Table file formats are on the cloud

There is always a gap between a disruption in the data engineering industry and its integration on the cloud. It was not different for table file formats which have started gaining interest on AWS, Azure, GCP recently.

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What's new on the cloud for data engineers - part 8 (09-12.2022)

It's the last update on the data engineering news on the cloud this year. There are a lot of things coming out. Especially for the streaming processing!

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Cloud authentication and data processing jobs

Setting a data processing layer up has several phases. You need to write the job, define the infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, integrate with the data orchestration layer, ... and finally, ensure the job can access the relevant datasets. The most basic authentication mechanism uses login/password pair but can we do better on the cloud? Let's see!

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Azure Synapse Link as Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing

I've discovered the term from the title while learning Azure Synapse and Cosmos DB services. I had heard of NoSQL, or even NewSQL, but never of a solution supporting analytical and transactional workloads at once.

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What's new on the cloud for data engineers - part 7 (05-08.2022)

Four months in cloud history is a huge period of time. Even when 2 of the 4 months are the usual "holiday" months. As you can guess from the title, it's time to see what changed recently on the cloud from a data engineering perspective!

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Shedding some light on Azure SQL

When I prepare the "What's new on the cloud..." series, I'm pretty sure that for Azure the most updates will go to the Azure SQL service. The main idea of the service is simple but if you analyze it more deeply, you'll find some concepts that might not be the easiest to understand at first.

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What's new on the cloud for data engineers - part 6 (01-04.2022)

It's time for the first cloud news blog post this year. The update summary lists all changes of data or data-related services between January 1 and April 25.

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HTTP-based data ingestion to streaming brokers

Data ingestion is the starting point for all data systems. It can work in batch or streaming mode. I've recently covered the batch ingestion pretty much already with previous blog posts but I haven't done anything for the streaming, yet. Until today when you can read a few words about HTTP-based data ingestion to cloud streaming brokers.

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Data migration on the cloud

Data is a live being. It's getting queried, written, overwritten, backfilled and ... migrated. Since the last point is the least obvious from the list, I've recently spent some time trying to understand it better in the context of the cloud.

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Database management services on the cloud

Data migration is one of the scenarios you can face as a data engineer. It's not always an easy task but managed cloud services can help you to put in place the pipeline and solve many common problems.

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Data ingestion to the cloud object store

The volume of the data to migrate from an on-premise to a cloud environment will probably be less significant than previous years since a lot of organizations are already on the cloud. However, it's interesting to see different methods to bring the data there and that's something I'll show you in this blog post.

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Data catalog services

Writing data processing jobs is a fascinating task. But it can't be worthless if the users can't find and use the generated data. Fortunately, we can count on data catalogs and leverage the power of metadata to overcome this discoverability issue.

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