It would be a mistake to write off web3 as merely a ploy to sell companies and the public on crypto and NFTs. …

Fivetran’s acquisition of HVR recently made waves across the data world. Both technologies have been staples of modern data stack design: Fivetran is a leader in automated data integration and HVR has been a major player in large-scale data replication. …

There is no doubt that SQL is the language of data engineering, while Python is the language of data science. For this reason, most database engines have begun to supplement their SQL capabilities by offering Python query support to allow their more data science inclined users to embed advanced statistics…

Azure Synapse Analytics (SA) went GA (general availability) last December, introducing a remarkable range of functionality that provides a PaaS database and a complete platform for data engineers, data scientists and business users with SQL or Spark capabilities. The feature set of SA is considerably richer than that of a…

Generic Snowflake functions to interact with web APIs directly from SQL statements. Snowflake is an extremely SQL-friendly database: you can ingest, transform, and access your structured and semi-structured data directly from your SQL code. However, as a cloud-only data platform, it has some fundamental restrictions: all insecure operations like accessing…

Telegraf is a great tool to collect information from thousands of different sources, but sometimes you need to complete it with other tools due to source limitations. …

Monitoring your infrastructure and applications is a must-have if you play your game seriously. Overseeing your entire landscape, running servers, cloud spends, VMs, containers, and the applications inside are extremely valuable to avoid outages or to fix things quicker. We, at Starschema, rely on open source tools like InfluxDB, Telegraf…

Following the implosion of the US housing bubble, when the mid-2000s Great Recession began to hit markets worldwide, many enterprises found themselves in dire straits. In the ensuing crisis, enterprises vied for suddenly limited resources amidst a global economic downturn. …