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Technologies & Tools 🛠️ |
In this section, we dive into the modern data landscape from a tools and technologies perspective—covering everything from databases and storage to analytics and orchestration. As today’s data stacks become more intricate, it’s essential to understand the purpose and capabilities of each tool. Whether you’re an architect deciding on infrastructure or a data scientist choosing your analytics engine, selecting the right technology can make or break your project’s success.
What You’ll Find Here
- 🔧 Data Teams & Tools : Explore the evolution of data teams and the tools that support them at each stage.
- 🔌 OLTP Databases: Manage real-time transactions across relational, document, key-value, or wide-column engines.
- 🗄️ Storage: Store and manage data at scale with object storage, data warehouses, or data lakes/lakehouses for optimized performance.
- ⚙️ Transmission, Orchestration: Integrate and process data using ETL/ELT, batch or streaming paradigm, while automating with orchestration tools.
- 💻 Compute, Notebooks: Scale data processing using Spark, Hive, or Impala, and explore data interactively with Jupyter or Databricks notebooks.
- 📊 Analytics, Machine Learning: Create insightful visualizations, and accelerate ML development, and monitoring for scalable AI-driven solutions.
- 🧩 Data Governance, MDM: Ensure data quality, lineage, and compliance with cataloging, policy enforcement, and master data management solutions.
- 🖥️ Data Studio, Virtualization: Streamline workflows with data studio, use virtualization to enable on-demand querying across different sources.
Navigating the Tooling Landscape
Below is a diagram that captures many of the technologies within a modern data ecosystem. Each box represents a key category—helping you quickly identify where a particular tool fits in your data architecture 🚀.
