ENTUAL BLOG
On this page, we would like to share some engaging articles with you on everything related to data integration with Ab Initio, ETL development, data warehouse development, or simply interesting programming topics we’re currently exploring.
If you have any questions, comments, or ideas regarding these topics, please feel free to contact us!
In this introduction, we’ll show you how to combine the proven stability and seamless data lineage of the enterprise world with cloud-native speed to implement robust, future-proof data architectures using Databricks and dbt in record time.
Now that we’ve examined the strategic and architectural foundations of a future-proof cloud data platform, we’ll take a closer look at the technical implementation of the first and most important step: data ingestion.
Raw data alone does not create business value. The next logical step is data transformation. In this article, we’ll show you how we use dbt and the Medaillon architecture to transform raw data into valuable business insights.
The technical architecture of a data platform does not end with ingestion and transformation. Different business transformation rules must be encapsulated in jobs, dependencies defined, executions monitored, and errors handled appropriately. Without structured orchestration, a tangled web of isolated jobs, manual triggers, and incorrect dependencies can quickly emerge.
After developing the scripts and dbt models directly within the Databricks interactive environment and testing them against real data, we migrate these artifacts to a professional deployment structure. To do this, we use Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs), a tool that adapts software development best practices for data projects.
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In the first part of our multi-part series, you'll learn the basics of programming a chess computer.
In this second blog post, we’ll explore how a chess computer can calculate all possible moves in a given board position and how a rating function for those moves is implemented.
In the third part, we will discuss the technical aspects of implementation using Ab Initio. The focus will be on implementing a web service graph with Ab Initio, enhanced with chess-specific features.
https://stockfishchess.org/