Operationalizing the Data Lake

Acknowledgments

In a world in which data has become the new oil for companies, building a company that can be driven by data and has the ability to scale with it has become more important than ever to remain competitive and ahead of the curve. Although many approaches to building a successful data operation are often highly customized to the company, its data, and the users working with it, this book aims to put together the data platform jigsaw puzzle, both pragmatically and theoretically, based on the experiences of multiple people working on data teams managing large-scale workloads across use cases, systems, and industries.

We cannot thank Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma enough for inspiring the content of this book following the tremendous success of Creating a Data-Driven Enterprise with DataOps (O’Reilly, 2017) and for encouraging us to question the status quo every day. As the cofounders of Qubole, your vision of centralizing a data platform around the cloud data lake has been an incredible eye-opener, illuminating the true impact that information can have for a company when done right and made useful for its people. Thank you immensely to Kay Lawton as well, for managing the entire book from birth to completion. This book would have never been completed if it weren’t for your incredible skills of bringing everyone together and keeping us on our toes. Your work and coordination behind the scenes with O’Reilly and at Qubole ensured that logistics ran smoothly. Of course, ...