August, 2020

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Why You Need Data Engineers And Data Scientists To Be Successful!

Team Data Science

Data Science , Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. These topics are currently the hype in the field of Data Science. Everyone wants to become a Data Scientist. But isn't the work being done in the field of Data Engineereing the real MVP? Isn't it important to have Data Scientists AND Data Engineers on board to make a project successful? Yes, it is!

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Benchmarking Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, and RabbitMQ: Which is the fastest?

Confluent

Apache Kafka® is one of the most popular event streaming systems. There are many ways to compare systems in this space, but one thing everyone cares about is performance. Kafka […].

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Designing Edge Gateway, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform

Uber Engineering

The making of Edge Gateway, the highly-available and scalable self-serve gateway to configure, manage, and monitor APIs of every business domain at Uber. Evolution of Uber’s API gateway. In October 2014, Uber had started its journey of scale in what … The post Designing Edge Gateway, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Optimized shot-based encodes for 4K: Now streaming!

Netflix Tech

by Aditya Mavlankar , Liwei Guo , Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron Netflix has an ever-expanding collection of titles which customers can enjoy in 4K resolution with a suitable device and subscription plan. Netflix creates premium bitstreams for those titles in addition to the catalog-wide 8-bit stream profiles¹. Premium features comprise a title-dependent combination of 10-bit bit-depth, 4K resolution, high frame rate (HFR) and high dynamic range (HDR) and pave the way for an extraordinary viewing

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Building A Better Data Warehouse For The Cloud At Firebolt

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data warehouse technology has been around for decades and has gone through several generational shifts in that time. The current trends in data warehousing are oriented around cloud native architectures that take advantage of dynamic scaling and the separation of compute and storage. Firebolt is taking that a step further with a core focus on speed and interactivity.

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Teradata Vantage: Born for Cloud Before Cloud Was Born

Teradata

Teradata Workload Management enables Vantage to be fully optimized for cloud & hybrid deployments & to efficiently deliver the lowest cost for enterprise analytics.

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How Tencent PCG Uses Apache Kafka to Handle 10 Trillion+ Messages Per Day

Confluent

As one of the world’s biggest internet-based platform companies, Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of users and assist the digital upgrade of enterprises. An example product is the […].

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Data for Enterprise AI: at the very forefront of innovation

Cloudera

2020 may well go down as the year where what seems impossible today, did become possible tomorrow. It’s been a year filled with disruption and uncertainty. One day we were all going to the office, and the next we were working from home. Businesses had to literally switch operations, and enable better collaboration and access to data in an instant — while streamlining processes to accommodate a whole new way of doing things.

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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

Netflix Tech

by Mariana Afonso , Anush Moorthy , Liwei Guo , Lishan Zhu , Anne Aaron Netflix has been one of the pioneers of streaming video-on-demand content?—?we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and have only increased both our device and content reach since then. Given the global nature of the service and Netflix’s commitment to creating a service that members enjoy, it is not surprising that we support a wide variety of streaming devices, from set-top-boxes and

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Metadata Management And Integration At LinkedIn With DataHub

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary In order to scale the use of data across an organization there are a number of challenges related to discovery, governance, and integration that need to be solved. The key to those solutions is a robust and flexible metadata management system. LinkedIn has gone through several iterations on the most maintainable and scalable approach to metadata, leading them to their current work on DataHub.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Use of Modeling and Simulation for Understanding COVID-19 Dynamics

Teradata

This post presents a simulation framework that leverages several mathematical models to simulate the spread of diseases such as COVID-19 in urban environments.

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Most important tools for Data Engineers

Team Data Science

There are a huge number of tools and platforms for data engineers. It's this enormous selection that makes it difficult for newcomers to filter out the really important tools. In the course of the Data Engineer Coaching I was able to gain important experience in this regard and would like to tell you the most important tools on this basis today! During the coaching sessions I saw that a lot of tools keep coming up all the time: Kafka, Spark and AWS.

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What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6

Confluent

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.6.0. This another exciting release with many new features and improvements. We’ll […].

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The Future Of The Telco Industry And Impact Of 5G & IoT – Part II

Cloudera

In part 2 of the series focusing on the impact of evolving technology on the telecom industry, we sat down with Vijay Raja, Director of Industry & Solutions Marketing at Cloudera to get his views on how the sector is changing and where it goes next. Hi Vijay, thank you so much for joining us again. To continue where we left off, as industry players continue to shift toward a more 5G centric network, how is 5G impacting the industry from a data perspective?

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Computational Causal Inference at Netflix

Netflix Tech

Jeffrey Wong , Colin McFarland Every Netflix data scientist, whether their background is from biology, psychology, physics, economics, math, statistics, or biostatistics, has made meaningful contributions to the way Netflix analyzes causal effects. Scientists from these fields have made many advancements in causal effects research in the past few decades, spanning instrumental variables, forest methods, heterogeneous effects, time-dynamic effects, quantile effects, and much more.

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Exploring The TileDB Universal Data Engine

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Most databases are designed to work with textual data, with some special purpose engines that support domain specific formats. TileDB is a data engine that was built to support every type of data by using multi-dimensional arrays as the foundational primitive. In this episode the creator and founder of TileDB shares how he first started working on the underlying technology and the benefits of using a single engine for efficiently storing and querying any form of data.

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Digitalizing Energy: A Cure-All Salve or Expensive Placebo?

Teradata

No operator ever made, or ever will make, a single cent or penny from purely digitizing and then storing data – they need to do something with it! Find out how.

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Analytics-on-the-fly: from batch to real-time user engagement

Rockset

It was the winter of 2007 when I logged into my newly created Facebook account for the very first time and I was amazed to see Facebook immediately show me three of my friends with whom I had lost touch since elementary school. One of them was working in London in a multinational bank, the other one was an engineer at Google in their Silicon Valley office office and the third one was running a restaurant in my town of Guwahati, a sleepy town on the India-Myanmar border.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Testing Kafka Streams – A Deep Dive

Confluent

Tools for automated testing of Kafka Streams applications have been available to developers ever since the technology’s genesis. Although these tools are very useful in practice, this blog post will […].

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Connect the Data Lifecycle: The power of data

Cloudera

There’s no doubt that cloud has become ubiquitous, and thank goodness for that in 2020. We wouldn’t have survived the challenges of this year without cloud. It’s supported everything, from the sudden changes in the way we work to the way we access healthcare and even shop for vital goods. While cloud is the vehicle, it’s what sits on it that makes it so valuable — data.

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Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

Netflix Tech

By Andrei U., Seth Katz , Janak Ramachandran , Jeff Butsch , Peter Lau , Ram Vaithilingam , and Greg Burrell Our Telltale Vision An alert fires and you get paged in the middle of the night. A metric crossed a threshold. You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? When was the last time somebody adjusted our alert thresholds?

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Closing The Loop On Event Data Collection With Iteratively

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Event based data is a rich source of information for analytics, unless none of the event structures are consistent. The team at Iteratively are building a platform to manage the end to end flow of collaboration around what events are needed, how to structure the attributes, and how they are captured. In this episode founders Patrick Thompson and Ondrej Hrebicek discuss the problems that they have experienced as a result of inconsistent event schemas, how the Iteratively platform integrat

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.

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Architecting for Today’s Hybrid Analytic Ecosystem

Teradata

A modern analytic ecosystem embraces a hybrid approach and leverages the right technologies to meet the needs at the right cost/value ratio. Read more.

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Integration: Apache Kafka & Nifi

RandomTrees

By Anshul Ghogre Introduction Apache NiFiis designed to automate the flow of data between software systems. It is based on the “NiagaraFiles” software previously developed by the NSA, it supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic. Apache Kafka is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps.

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An Overview of Confluent Cloud Security Controls

Confluent

Whether you are a developer working on a cool new real-time application or an architect formulating the plan to reap the benefits of event streaming for the organisation, the subject […].

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Streaming Analytics in the Real World

Cloudera

From leading banks, and insurance organizations to some of the largest telcos, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare and pharma, organizations across diverse verticals lead the way with real-time data and streaming analytics. These businesses use data-fueled insights to enhance the customer experience, reduce costs, and increase revenues. And Cloudera is at the heart of enabling these real-time data driven transformations. .

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Building a Sync Engine

Grouparoo

So you have data in your product database and you need to synchronize it with something else. Maybe you need to update a CRM or email system like Mailchimp , HubSpot , or Braze. Maybe it is more of an ETL thing and you need to move the data into Redshift or Snowflake. In all cases, what we have here is a need for a sync engine. A sync engine monitors a source (your product database) for changes in order to process them in some way (update an external system).

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A Practical Introduction To Graph Data Applications

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Finding connections between data and the entities that they represent is a complex problem. Graph data models and the applications built on top of them are perfect for representing relationships and finding emergent structures in your information. In this episode Denise Gosnell and Matthias Broecheler discuss their recent book, the Practitioner’s Guide To Graph Data, including the fundamental principles that you need to know about graph structures, the current state of graph suppor

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Move Fast – But Don’t Break Things

Teradata

Agile practices in the retail sector can deliver fast & compelling returns, but they can also lead to fragmentation, data silos, & unnecessary complexity. Learn more.

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Eta-Expansion and Partially Applied Functions in Scala

Rock the JVM

Explore the intriguing world of eta-expansion: Discover how methods and functions interact in Scala, revealing insights that can elevate your coding game

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.