What is Zero ETL — Definition, Benefits & Challenges — In the field of Data Engineering, we often hear about the so-called zero ETL approach, but what exactly is this? Definition The Zero ETL approach is a method for building data pipelines that aims to eliminate the need for traditional extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes and the tools used to…

How to use USERCULTURE DAX in Power BI — Companies today are very internationally oriented. They are often spread over different regions and have foreign employees in mixed teams. To make it easier for them to understand each other and at the same time make their companies more data-driven, Microsoft is introducing three major updates to Power BI —…

Which one is the better Platform when using Azure Cloud? — Both systems are well-known solutions for building up a Data Warehouse or Data Lakehouse, Microsoft offers both solutions in their Azure Cloud, but which is the better solution? Azure Synapse Analytics and (Azure) Databricks are both popular cloud-based platforms for Data Analytics and Big Data processing. …

Companies working with Microsoft and Azure have many Problems today — After outages of Microsoft services were reported today (25.01.23), among others Outlook and Office 365 (I had already briefly reported on this), it is probably clear that Azure service in the cloud of Microsoft are also affected. Microsoft Services with huge Breakdown this morning What happens when Hyper Scalers stop working?medium.com

What happens when Hyper Scalers stop working? — Microsoft customers must have strong nerves this morning (25.02.203), because beside game servers, such as those of the computer game Minecraft, or live access to the Microsoft console Xbox especially Outlook and Office 365 service are down or at least not running properly. Users worldwide were unable to access email…

Why especially Small Teams and Starters can benefit — One thing in advance: Whether Kanban is the best method for projects in the field of Data Engineering is debatable, even the question of what is best practice should not be the topic today. The point is that Kanban is a popular project management method that can be used to…

Should we not set our Expectations too high for GPT-4? — Just because of the great euphoria, but also because of the huge amount of data used for GPT-4, the expectations are very very high. As a comparison, the graphic below shows quite well how much more data is actually involved. One can therefore assume larger effects.

How to run Hadoop based Clusters and Jobs in the Google Cloud — Google Cloud Dataproc is a fully managed cloud service for running Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark workloads. It is designed to simplify the process of running Big Data workloads on Google Cloud Platform by automating the setup and management of cluster resources. The service also offers built-in integration with other…

How Google does not want to be defeated in the AI Race — Certainly, everyone is talking about ChatGPT and Microsoft has certainly taken a big risk with its investments in the technology, which should now pay off. I had already reported that Microsoft wants to integrate the functions of the chat bot into its Office products and Azure services. Microsoft wants to integrate ChatGPT into Office Software How Microsoft wants to make AI usable for their Office Usersmedium.com