Data processing and consumption are essential elements of the contemporary business world. Therefore, there are mysterious pieces of software, commonly abbreviated as APIs, whose role is fundamental in this traffic of information. APIs (Application Programming Interface) are mechanisms for integration…
In recent years, data processing with low latency, practically in real time, is becoming a requirement increasingly demanded by companies in their big data processes. It is in this context where the concept of stream processing is introduced, which refers…
Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming API is a powerful tool for processing real-time data streams. In this context, there are certain use cases where ensuring the accuracy of the processed data is not trivial due to the time dimension that inherently…
In the field of Data Engineering, efficient database design is essential to handle large volumes of data and provide effective analysis. Throughout my experience as a Data Engineer, I have worked with the main data relationship systems and have observed…
Introduction This article assumes that there is a basic knowledge about embeddings of objects, either text or images. In case you don’t have any notions on the subject, the post on Text Embeddings: the basis of modern NLP explains this…
When dealing with significant amounts of data, the way you store it can make the difference between success and failure. In this post, we’re going to take a look at a file format that may not be the most popular,…
In 2020 Apache Spark released version 3.0.0.0 which introduced some changes to the API for defining custom data sources, known within the Spark environment as Custom Data Source. These were previously used through DatasourceV2, which generated confusion and an unintuitive…
In other discussion spaces we elaborated a comparison between DBT, Pentaho and Spark to perform data transformations. In this post, we will look at some of the key concepts of DBT: models, snapshots and materializations. In the context of DBT…
BigQuery has become in recent years a powerful tool for data storage and analysis in the cloud. Its size, scalability and all the features it offers would be difficult for a user or company to replicate from scratch due to…
We know that there is a large number of products in the data engineering ecosystem to perform the data processing of a company and that most of them provide the necessary tools to be able to perform many types of…