All Hands on Data #29
Are you looking for books to read in the new year? Maybe wondering about a Rust takeover? Check out this week's AHOD for that and more
Will Rust Take over Data Engineering?
The ever-popular Rust is discussed as a potential language for data engineering. While there are lots of tools and ad-hoc scripting currently written in the language of choice, Python, the author makes the case that there is a growing suite of tools and services built primarily on Rust. Maybe there's a chance to unseat the king? - John Forstmeier
How to access an API for first-time API users
I entered the data field without much experience working with APIs. Riesling does a great job breaking down working with an API in her guide. She breaks down how to work with an API and what an API is. To quote Riesling, "APIs are cool." If the idea of working with APIs is scary to you, you'll feel much more confident with them after reading this guide. - Steven Johnson
Groundhog Days
As a data team, you have a responsibility to answer two core questions. How do I make this data believable? And how do I make the data add value? If you don't think critically about how to address these concerns, and work directly with stakeholders to understand their views and concerns, your team will be in a continual Groundhog Day. - Blake Burch
12 Machine Learning Books You Should Read in 2023
As we somehow already wrap up the year, we should start planning for goals we want to accomplish in 2023 and things we want to learn. This list for machine learning books gives a good breakdown of recent works published in the last couple years, and some older ones that are still relevant. - Joseph McDermott
The Key to a Successful Cloud Migration Is What Comes After
This topic is close to my heart. In my past career, we had to upkeep a legacy system in parallel for several years... not only was it a pain, it resulted conflicts and confusion, between colleagues and connections. Now, with the race to join the cloud, decommissioning on-prem systems is of upmost importance. Pugsley points out that even one user in an old database requires maintenance and the longer the process takes, the more likely data and teams will be out of sync. - Katt Baum
Understanding Cosine Similarity And Its Application
Put trigonometry in the name of an article, and I'm immediately hooked. Seriously though, while reading up on another topic I saw this term and immediately had to know what it meant. It's a very easy way to determine the similarity of two objects without complex math. - Eric Elsken
Top 7 Data Security Threats to AI and ML
We're been moving more towards trying to implement AI/ML tools at Shipyard. The security threats that Edward bring up are something that we need to keep in mind moving forward. Security is a top priority here at Shipyard and staying on top of articles like this is important. - Jon Davidson