Biography

Einat Orr is the CEO and Co-founder of Treeverse, the company behind lakeFS, an open source platform that delivers resilience and manageability to object-storage based data lakes. She received her PhD. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University, in the field of optimization in graph theory. Einat previously led several engineering organizations, most recently as CTO at SimilarWeb.

Talk

Rethinking Ingestion: CI/CD for Data Lakes

At first, glance, ingesting data into a data lake may seem like a one-step process — you simply add files to an object store. What else is there to do?!

It turns out that there is more you can do, and blindly writing new data introduces a host of potential problems. For example, how do you know the data you write is accurate and conforms to the schema? The truth is, once you’ve written it to the lake, in a sense, it’s already too late.

What they propose and will cover in this talk, is a new strategy for data lake ingestion. One where new data can be added in isolation then tested and validated, before “going live” in a production table. Finally, they will show how git-for-data tools like lakeFS and Nessie enable this ingestion paradigm in a seamless way.

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