Data Engineering Book
Learning and science
open source book
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3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
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What people liked
High-quality translation and useful later chapters
From 2 comments
Thank you so much for this book! I'm finding the translation is very high quality. I am a complete novice in training LLMs, and have been trying to train a novel architecture for…
fudged71 on HNI'm not sure whether this is an artefact of translation, but things like this don't inspire confidence: > The "Modern Data Stack" (MDS) is a hot concept in data engineering in…
hliyan on HN
Good RAG sections
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I'm not sure whether this is an artefact of translation, but things like this don't inspire confidence: > The "Modern Data Stack" (MDS) is a hot concept in data engineering in…
hliyan on HN
Objections
Text reads as LLM-generated with fake warmth
From 2 comments
I think it was. It's a wall of information, lots of summary tables, fake warmth, and has that LLM smell to it. I'd be very surprised if this wasn't generated text. Whether it's…
nimonian on HNthis is great and i bookmarked it so i can read it later. i’m just curious though, was the readme written by chatgpt? i can’t tell if im paranoid thinking everything is written…
osamabinladen on HN
Modern Data Stack intro is unclear from translation
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I'm not sure whether this is an artefact of translation, but things like this don't inspire confidence: > The "Modern Data Stack" (MDS) is a hot concept in data engineering in…
hliyan on HN
Missing table formats like Delta and Iceberg
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Parquet alone is not for modern data engineering. Delta, Iceberg should be in the list
alexott on HN
Figures were in Chinese in some chapters
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The figures in the different chapters are in english (it's not the case for the image in README_en.md).
guillem_lefait on HN
Requests
Cover table and storage formats like Lance and Vortex
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It's important in a book treating an emerging field (data eng for LLMs) to mention emerging categories related to it such as storage formats purpose built for the full ML…
cpard on HN
Cover hybrid search and reranking
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The 'Vector DB vs Keyword Search' section caught my eye. In your testing for RAG pipelines, where do you draw the line? We've found keyword search (BM25) often beats semantic…
13pixels on HN
Add code-focused datasets and tooling
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Thank you so much for this book! I'm finding the translation is very high quality. I am a complete novice in training LLMs, and have been trying to train a novel architecture for…
fudged71 on HN
Questions
Was the readme written by ChatGPT?
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this is great and i bookmarked it so i can read it later. i’m just curious though, was the readme written by chatgpt? i can’t tell if im paranoid thinking everything is written…
osamabinladen on HN
Why is a Chinese publication on the HN front page?
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谢谢 How is possible a Chinese publication gets to the top in HN?
rafavargascom on HN
Alternatives named
Lance
From 1 comment
It's important in a book treating an emerging field (data eng for LLMs) to mention emerging categories related to it such as storage formats purpose built for the full ML…
cpard on HN
Vortex
From 1 comment
It's important in a book treating an emerging field (data eng for LLMs) to mention emerging categories related to it such as storage formats purpose built for the full ML…
cpard on HN
Delta Lake and Iceberg
From 1 comment
Parquet alone is not for modern data engineering. Delta, Iceberg should be in the list
alexott on HN