Tag: Data Warehouse

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Git for Data: Not a Silver Bullet

In Software EngineeringTags Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, git, SoftwareAugust 3, 2020

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about systems for doing version control for data. Most recently, Ryan Gross wrote a blog post “The Rise of DataOps” where he lays out how data version control is the most obvious next step in moving data pipelines from something that’s “maintained” to something that’s “engineered.” I enjoyed this blog post and I like many of the analogies that Gross draws, but I’ve encountered this idea of “git for data” in a

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Should Your Data Warehouse Have an SLA? (Part 2)

In Software EngineeringTags Analytics, Data Warehouse, SLAJune 24, 2018

Scott Breitenother

A data warehouse Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an important building block for a data-driven organization. To help get you started, in part one I introduced a data warehouse SLA template

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Should Your Data Warehouse Have an SLA? (Part 1)

In ManagementTags Data Warehouse, SLAMay 28, 2018

Scott Breitenother

Yes, if you want to build a truly data-driven organization your data warehouse needs a Service Level Agreement (SLA). At the core of any data driven organization is trust –

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