February, 2016

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Types of Analytics:Descriptive,Predictive,Prescriptive Analytics

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Different types, types, and stages of data analysis have emerged due to the big data revolution. Data analytics is booming in boardrooms worldwide, promising enterprise-wide strategies for business success. But, what do these imply for businesses? Gaining the correct information, which produces knowledge, allows businesses to create a competitive edge, which is essential to companies successfully leveraging Big Data.

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Student CVs for UX careers: Tips & tricks

Zalando Engineering

Are you a student looking to get into user experience (UX) design or research? We recently hosted local students at the Zalando Human Factors Student Day -- offering a CV critique and Q&A session about applying to UX jobs. Inspired by their questions, we’d like to share here some insights from our experience reviewing myriad UX applications. The goal?

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Recap of Hadoop News for January

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News on Hadoop – January 2016 Hadoop turns 10, Big Data industry rolls along. Zdnet.com, January 29, 2016 2016 marks the tenth birthday of the big daddy of big data -Apache Hadoop. The proud dad Doug Cutting wrote an exclusive blog celebrating 10 th birthday of Hadoop which was named after his son’s tiny toy elephant. Hadoop ignited the big data craze 10 years back and it continues to be the show of the star in the data century.

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Recap of Hadoop News for February

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News on Hadoop- February 2016 Hadoop has turned 10, but it still has a long way to go in terms of enterprise adoption. February 3, 2016. InformationWeek.com At the 10th birthday of Hadoop, which is fast becoming everyone’s favorite big data technology – is gearing up for enterprise wide adoption. According to Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Distributions , Q1 2016, within a span of 2 years, 100% of the large enterprises will adopt Hadoop or other Hadoop technologies like Apache Spark

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.

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Streaming Huge Databases Using Logical Decoding

Zalando Engineering

Zalando’s database engineering team recently spoke at FOSDEM PGDay , an event hosted by the PostgreSQL community the day before the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. I had the opportunity to share insights on Streaming Huge Databases using Logical Decoding. Logical decoding is a new feature of PostgreSQL (since version 9.4) that allows streaming database changes in a custom format.

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7 Big Data Conferences You Should Attend in 2023

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Big data and Data Science are among the fastest growing professions in 2016 and there is no better way to stay informed on the latest trends and technologies in the big data space than by attending one of the top big data conferences. If you are currently in the big data industry , then attending at least one big data conference or event is not an option- it is a must.

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Zookeeper and Oozie: Hadoop Workflow and Cluster Managers

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We generate petabytes of data every day, which is processed by farms of servers distributed across the geographical location of the globe. With big data seeping into every facet of our lives, we are trying to build robust systems which can process petabytes of data in a fast and accurate manner. Apache Hadoop, an open source framework is used widely for processing gigantic amounts of unstructured data on commodity hardware.

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How Agile Coaches Scale Continuous Improvement

Zalando Engineering

Since 2015, we have been scaling the continuous improvement practice by finding inspiration from systemic thinking, management 3.0 and agile retrospective. You may wonder why we chose the retrospective as a concrete practice for implementation. This is because teams inside Zalando’s Technology do what it takes to get things done: planning, coding, demoing, managing backlogs, and much more.

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Apache Hadoop turns 10: The Rise and Glory of Hadoop

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It is difficult to believe that the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo, 10 years ago, on January 28 th , 2006. Ten years ago nobody was aware that an open source technology, like Apache Hadoop will fire a revolution in the world of big data. Ever since 2006, the craze for Hadoop is exponentially rising, making it a cornerstone technology for businesses to power world-class products and deliver the best in-class user experience.

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Get Job-Ready: Learn to Code in 2023

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The most common new year resolutions people make but do not keep are: losing weight, quitting smoking and drinking, saving money, getting a new job, working out daily, and several other tough boring resolutions which not only require a strong will power but lacks enough motivation for you to see it through! 2016 is the year to make a different kind of resolution.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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From Monolith to Microservices (Video)

Zalando Engineering

The MicroXchange 2016 conference took place on February 4-5 in Berlin, bringing together technologists from all around the world with a passion for microservices architecture. Our Head of Engineering, Rodrigue Schaefer took the stage to describe how Zalando engineers are taking a microservices approach to frontend as well as backend through a rebuild of the company’s “shop”—the unit that includes 15 country-specific, customer-facing websites.

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10 Best Hadoop articles from 2023 that you should read

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We know that big data professionals are far too busy to searching the net for articles on Hadoop and Big Data which are informative and factually accurate. We have taken the time and listed 10 best Hadoop articles for you. We have created this list of “10 Hadoop articles from 2015 Everyone Must Read” - by choosing articles that contain up-to-date information and are in line with big data trends.

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Zalando’s Patroni: a Template for High Availability PostgreSQL

Zalando Engineering

Last week members of Zalando’s database engineering team spoke at FOSDEM PGDay , an event hosted by the PostgreSQL community the day before the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. PGDay was a big success, with a record number of attendees and lots of great talks. I presented on Patroni , Zalando’s Python-based PostgreSQL controller to provide automatic failover functionality for PostgreSQL.

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Data Scientist Salary-The Ultimate Guide for 2023

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What’s the average data scientist salary in 2023? How much does a data scientist make? Do data scientists make a lot of money? If such questions pique your interest, you are on the right page. This blog breaks down the data science salary figures for today’s data workforce based on which company they work for, years of experience, specialization of data science tools and technologies, location, and other factors.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.