Tag: Data engineering
AI: It’s Not Just For the Big FAANG Dogs Anymore
It’s been said that AI has a 1% problem, that only the biggest tech firms—the Facebooks, Amazons, Apples, Netflixes, and Googles, or FAANGs, of the world--have the resources required to pull it off. But thanks to t Read more…
Meet Sean Knapp, a 2021 Datanami Person to Watch
Getting data to the right place at the right time has never been more important than it is now. But for many organizations, the data movement task largely remains a manual affair. Sean Knapp founded Ascend.io because he Read more…
No-Coder Upsolver Aims to Ease Use of Cloud Data Lakes
Upsolver, the no-code data lake platform vendor, has closed a $25 million funding round this week, boosting total venture funding for its cloud analytics tools to about $42 million. The financing round announced Tuesd Read more…
Data Engineering Cloud Launched by Trifacta
Trifacta today launched what might be the world’s first cloud designed specifically for data engineering. Running on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, the new Trifacta Data Engineering Cloud provides a place for Read more…
Data Labs Look to Boost ‘Data Fluency’
As the role of the data scientist expands, so too does the “data lab” product category which seeks to merge data science with the enterprise plumbing required for data-driven decision-making. Add to the list a new Read more…
Prophecy Spins Up Low-Code Data Pipeline Tool
In recent years, the shortage of data engineers has at times exceeded the shortage of data scientists. To help close the gap, a Silicon Valley startup called Prophecy today unveiled a low-code data engineering tool that Read more…
2021: The Year of the Feature Store
Don’t look now, but feature stores--systems for developing, maintaining, and monitoring the data features used by machine learning algorithms for training and inference--are popping up all around us. Amazon Web Service Read more…
Snowflake Extends Its Data Warehouse with Pipelines, Services
Customers running atop Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse soon will find new functionality, including the ability to build ETL data pipelines in Python, as well as the ability to expose pre-built analytic routines as dat Read more…
Data Transformer Fishtown Raises Funds
Fishtown Analytics, the data engineering tool startup, announced a $29.5 funding round this week to be used for further development of its open source analytics engineering tool. The Series B round was led by Sequoia Read more…
Zaloni Pivots to DataOps
Zaloni once was focused on helping customers to manage data in Hadoop. But under new CEO Susan Cook, the company has broadened its scope and is now aiming to help customers manage the entire supply chain of data, or what Read more…
