Total 14 Posts

ETL

An Introduction to Delta Lake: The Open-Source Storage Layer for Big Data

Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute…

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Jul 11, 2023 5 min read

Theo LEBRUN

Data

Streamline your Data Transformations by Running dbt Directly on Databricks using Jobs

Running dbt (data build tool) on Databricks is a great alternative to dbt Cloud if…

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Apr 26, 2023 4 min read

Theo LEBRUN

Data

Jumpstarting Your Data Engineering Career: A Beginner's Guide to the Data Stack - Part One: Fivetran

Summary Do you find yourself lost in an endless sea of data tools? Are you…

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Apr 07, 2023 5 min read

Eleanor Estwick

Data Engineering

Boost the Performance of Your Databricks Jobs and Queries

Databricks is doing a lot of optimization and caching by default to have jobs and…

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Mar 10, 2023 4 min read

Theo LEBRUN

Data

Power your Data Pipeline with Matillion Variables

Matillion is a great ETL tool for bringing over data from disparate sources into one…

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Aug 18, 2022 3 min read

Hector Sanchez

Matillion

Starting with AWS Glue and Querying S3 from Athena

Part one of three in a deep dive of ETL in AWS Glue. Learn how to create powerful low-code/no-code ETL processes from S3 to many data sources in AWS.…

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Jul 28, 2020 8 min read

Sam Portillo

AWS

Exploring Snowsight: Snowflake's Replacement for SQL Worksheets

In June of 2020, Snowflake announced Snowsight: the upcoming replacement for SQL Worksheets and is…

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Jun 26, 2020 5 min read

Sam Portillo

ETL

Snowflake External Functions

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing company.  They specialize in provisioning on-demand compute and elastic…

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Jun 16, 2020 7 min read

Dan Ferguson

Cloud

Innovative Snowflake Features Part 2: Caching

In the previous blog in this series Innovative Snowflake Features Part 1: Architecture [https://test-ippon.…

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Aug 21, 2019 3 min read

Pooja Krishnan

Data

Innovative Snowflake Features Part 1: Architecture

Earlier this year, Ippon published an Introduction to Snowflake [https://test-ippon.ghost.io/introduction-to-snowflake/] post…

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Aug 08, 2019 6 min read

Pooja Krishnan

Data

Introduction to Snowflake

Snowflake is a native Cloud Relational Database that is a Data Warehouse as a Service…

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Jun 05, 2019 6 min read

Ramya Shetty

Data

Basics of Apache Nifi: 2

On our previous video on the basics of Nifi [https://test-ippon.ghost.io/basics-of-apache-nifi], we…

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Nov 15, 2017 1 min read

Malcolm Thirus

Apache Nifi

Basics of Apache Nifi: 1

In our previous article on Nifi [https://test-ippon.ghost.io/why-nifi-2], we discussed the history,…

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Apr 25, 2017 1 min read

Malcolm Thirus

Apache Nifi

Why NiFi?

In this day and age we are living in, it is not a luxury to…

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Jan 26, 2017 4 min read

Doug Mengistu

Apache Nifi