Data
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Big Data
See big-data.md
Data Validation
Start by validating data formats for correctness.
Scripts for this can be found in both the DevOps-Python-tools and DevOps-Bash-tools repos.
Then proceed to more advanced content validation.
Data Generation
'Faker' libraries are available in many languages inspired by the original Perl library.
Perl version: https://metacpan.org/dist/Data-Faker
Java version: :octocat: DiUS/java-faker
Python version :octocat: joke2k/faker -
comes with a faker command convenient for shell scripts:
Generate 10 fake addresses:
faker -r 10 address
Data Integration
- DBT - open-source data pipeline workflow tool
- DVC - data version control
- Informatica - proprietary legacy now available via SaaS, with self-hosted agents on VMs or Kubernetes
- Airbyte - open source
self-hosted or SaaS proprietary with 300+ connectors
- :octocat: airbytehq/airbyte
- Meltano - open-source CLI based ELT
- :octocat: meltano/meltano
- Apache Camel - open source with 100+ connectors
- Spring Integration - XML config, only use for Spring heavy shops
- Mulesoft - XML config, only use for proprietary connectors
Mulesoft
- lightweight enterprise service bus + integration framework
- proprietary connectors
- Anypoint Studio (Eclipse-based IDE)
- Anypoint Enterprise Security - security features, transactions
Spring Integration
TODO
Data Visualization
See the Diagrams and Visualization docs.
Power BI
Free for desktop version:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi/desktop
Diagrams
Top 9 Systems Integrations

Encoding vs Encryption vs Tokenization

Memes
Trump Tariff CSV Imports

USB vs Floppy

Ported from private Knowledge Base pages 2016+