July 2021
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
9h 51m
English
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Chapter 10
Rowing End-to-End across the Data Lake
IN THIS CHAPTER
Deciding what to keep from your current data services portfolio
Launching your data lake
Loading up your data lake
Adding a sandbox to your data lake
The bronze zone. The gold zone. And in between the two, the silver zone. Oh, and don’t forget about the sandbox.
When you examine the layers and zones of a data lake one by one, you get a pretty good idea of the roles and responsibilities of each one. But until you take an end-to-end look at a data lake, you don’t necessarily gain a full understanding of the flows of data from their sources into the data lake and then all the way through the pipelines that you’ll be constructing.
So, settle in for an end-to-end example of a hospital data lake.
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Before you dive deep into the hundreds or even thousands of data lake–related services and products at your disposal, you want to construct your data lake at the conceptual level. In other words, focus first on the forest that’s ...