Categories: News

Amundsen: one year later (Lyft Engineering) from Linux.com

1 min read

On October 30, 2019, we officially open sourced Amundsen, our solution to solve metadata catalog and data discovery challenges. Ten months later, Amundsen joined the Linux foundation AI (LFAI) as its incubation project.

In almost every modern data-driven company, each interaction with the platform is powered by data. As data resources are constantly growing, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand what data resources exist, how to access them, and what information is available in those sources without tribal knowledge. Poor understanding of data leads to bad data quality, low productivity, duplication of work, and most importantly, a lack of trust in the data. The complexity of managing a fragmented data landscape is not just a problem unique to Lyft, but a common one that exists throughout the industry.

In a nutshell, Amundsen is a data discovery and metadata platform for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists, and engineers when interacting with data. By indexing the data resources (tables, dashboards, users, etc.) and powering a page-rank style search based on usage patterns (e.g. highly-queried tables show up earlier than less-queried tables), these customers are able to address their data needs faster.

Read more at Lyft Engineering

The post Amundsen: one year later (Lyft Engineering) appeared first on Linux.com.

Matthew Emerick and Oli Huggins

Share
Published by
Matthew Emerick and Oli Huggins
Tags: Linux

Recent Posts

Top life hacks for prepping for your IT certification exam

I remember deciding to pursue my first IT certification, the CompTIA A+. I had signed…

3 years ago

Learn Transformers for Natural Language Processing with Denis Rothman

Key takeaways The transformer architecture has proved to be revolutionary in outperforming the classical RNN…

3 years ago

Learning Essential Linux Commands for Navigating the Shell Effectively

Once we learn how to deploy an Ubuntu server, how to manage users, and how…

3 years ago

Clean Coding in Python with Mariano Anaya

Key-takeaways:   Clean code isn’t just a nice thing to have or a luxury in software projects; it's a necessity. If we…

3 years ago

Exploring Forms in Angular – types, benefits and differences   

While developing a web application, or setting dynamic pages and meta tags we need to deal with…

3 years ago

Gain Practical Expertise with the Latest Edition of Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5

Software architecture is one of the most discussed topics in the software industry today, and…

3 years ago