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Alan Bernardo Palacio
Alan Bernardo Palacio
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Alan Bernardo Palacio

Alan Bernardo Palacio is a data scientist and an engineer with vast experience in different engineering fields. His focus has been the development and application of state-of-the-art data products and algorithms in several industries. He has worked for companies such as Ernst and Young, Globant, and now holds a data engineer position at Ebiquity Media helping the company to create a scalable data pipeline. Alan graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National University of Tucuman in 2015, participated as the founder in startups, and later on earned a Master's degree from the faculty of Mathematics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2017. Originally from Argentina, he now works and resides in the Netherlands.
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Optimizing file management with Delta Engine

Delta Engine allows improved management of files in Delta Lake, yielding better query speed, thanks to optimization in the layout of the stored data. Delta Lake does this by using two types of algorithms: bin-packing and Z-Ordering. The first algorithm is useful when merging small files into larger ones and is more efficient in handling the larger ones. The second algorithm is borrowed from mathematical analysis and is applied to the underlying structure of the data to map multiple dimensions into one dimension while preserving the locality of the data points.

In this section, we will learn how these algorithms work, see how to implement them using commands that act on our data, and how to handle snapshots of data thanks to the time travel feature.

It is good to remember that although there are automatic optimizations that take place when we use Delta Lake, most of these optimizations do not occur automatically, and some of them must...

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Alan Bernardo Palacio

Alan Bernardo Palacio is a data scientist and an engineer with vast experience in different engineering fields. His focus has been the development and application of state-of-the-art data products and algorithms in several industries. He has worked for companies such as Ernst and Young, Globant, and now holds a data engineer position at Ebiquity Media helping the company to create a scalable data pipeline. Alan graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National University of Tucuman in 2015, participated as the founder in startups, and later on earned a Master's degree from the faculty of Mathematics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2017. Originally from Argentina, he now works and resides in the Netherlands.
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