The battle against the fearful death himself is an everlasting one, and today we are, after seventeen years, effortless watching another heavy strike laid upon us. Well, to be more specific, mostly the people lived in China and who had been to China during this unfortunate period.
I have taken some Database design course back in university days, though I have skipped almost all of the lectures as I was also self-learning during my first internship on the same matter, in a much more practical manner. I did not even know the word OLAP back then. However, I am not dismissing the importance of data modelling in data engineering. On the contrary, data modelling is one of the important skills if you want to be a data engineer.
We have all heard of the term ETL. If you are working in the data field, you might have been asked to do some sort of ETL work regardless of your actual job description.
Recently Amazon Redshift launched a new console interface, which is pretty nice. It actually gives some valuable optimisation tips. A data warehouse is like a sword, you need to constantly sharpen it so it won’t lose its edge.
Recently I was working on the deployment of a predictive model built by my dear friend valued ex-colleague. Here I will share some thoughts and challenges I have encountered during its production deployment.
