Top 10 Common Data Engineers and Scientists Pain Points in 2024

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Kafka Streams

Data scientists often prefer Python for its simplicity and powerful libraries like Pandas or SciPy. However, many real-time data processing tools are Java-based. Take the example of Kafka, Flink, or Spark streaming. While these tools have their Python API/wrapper libraries, they introduce increased latency, and data scientists need to manage dependencies for both Python and JVM environments. For example, implementing a real-time anomaly detection model in Kafka Streams would require translating Python code into Java, slowing down pipeline performance, and requiring a complex initial setup.

#Stream Processing #Analytics #Workflow Automation 14 social mentions

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Apache Flink

Data scientists often prefer Python for its simplicity and powerful libraries like Pandas or SciPy. However, many real-time data processing tools are Java-based. Take the example of Kafka, Flink, or Spark streaming. While these tools have their Python API/wrapper libraries, they introduce increased latency, and data scientists need to manage dependencies for both Python and JVM environments. For example, implementing a real-time anomaly detection model in Kafka Streams would require translating Python code into Java, slowing down pipeline performance, and requiring a complex initial setup.

#Stream Processing #Big Data #Developer Tools 29 social mentions