Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 22, 2018

Summary The information about how data is acquired and processed is often as important as the data itself. For this reason metadata management systems are built to track the journey of your business data to aid in analysis, presentation, and compliance. These systems are frequently cumbersome and difficult to maintain, so Octopai was founded to alleviate that burden.

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Uber Engineering

APRIL 5, 2018

Three years ago, Uber Engineering adopted Hadoop as the storage ( HDFS ) and compute ( YARN ) infrastructure for our organization’s big data analysis. This analysis powers our services and enables the delivery of more seamless and reliable user … The post Scaling Uber’s Apache Hadoop Distributed File System for Growth appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Zalando Engineering

APRIL 9, 2018

A product manager's insights on customization Personalization is a common term with digital products. But what does it actually mean, why do we do it, and how does it affect the product manager? To illustrate, let me tell a personal story. I have gone to the same hairdresser for 10 years. He has seen a big part of my life, with big changes and evolutions.

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Cloudera

APRIL 2, 2018

[This blog by Claudia Juech, Executive Director of the Cloudera Foundation, highlights how increased collaboration between different philanthropic organizations can result in better funding for critical social issues. By adopting technologies like machine learning and analytics, these organizations can optimize how they spend funds for social good. She highlights how this technology can impact society.].

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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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ProjectPro

APRIL 2, 2018

News on Hadoop - March 2018 Kyvos Insights to Host Session "BI on Big Data - With Instant Response Times" at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2018.PRNewswire.com, March 5, 2018 The big data analytics company Kyos Insights announced that it will host a session “BI on Big Data - With Instant Response Times” at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2018 conference in Grapevine, Texas from March 5-8, 2018.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 29, 2018

Summary Business Intelligence software is often cumbersome and requires specialized knowledge of the tools and data to be able to ask and answer questions about the state of the organization. Metabase is a tool built with the goal of making the act of discovering information and asking questions of an organizations data easy and self-service for non-technical users.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 8, 2018

Summary Managing an analytics project can be difficult due to the number of systems involved and the need to ensure that new information can be delivered quickly and reliably. That challenge can be met by adopting practices and principles from lean manufacturing and agile software development, and the cross-functional collaboration, feedback loops, and focus on automation in the DevOps movement.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 1, 2018

Summary Cloud computing and ubiquitous virtualization have changed the ways that our applications are built and deployed. This new environment requires a new way of tracking and addressing the security of our systems. ThreatStack is a platform that collects all of the data that your servers generate and monitors for unexpected anomalies in behavior that would indicate a breach and notifies you in near-realtime.

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Uber Engineering

APRIL 12, 2018

As the Vice President of Engineering for Uber’s Core Infrastructure group, Matthew Mengerink faces a daunting task. He oversees 350 engineers across four teams tasked with not only maintaining the platform on which 3,500 microservices run, but also figuring out … The post Scaling for Growth: A Q&A with Uber’s VP of Core Infrastructure, Matthew Mengerink appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Zalando Engineering

APRIL 4, 2018

How stepping out of our comfort zone led to a hackathon victory Zalando Tech doesn't just put on hackathons , we love to attend them too! Here, we catch up with software engineers, Lisa Knolle and Izabela Bratovic about their time at #picturepunk. At the end of last year we took part in a hackathon. We came to this decision for the sake of exposing ourselves to new experiences, new people, and new technologies.

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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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Zalando Engineering

APRIL 25, 2018

How we migrated the Zalando Logistics Operating Services to Java 8 “Never touch working code!” goes the old saying. How often do you disregard this message and touch a big monolithic system? This article tells you why you should ignore common wisdom and, in fact, do it even more often. Preface Various kinds of migration are a natural part of software development.

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Zalando Engineering

APRIL 23, 2018

Using an API to drive marketing profitability: a gift card study Gift cards are becoming increasingly popular in the US and Europe. For time-pressed consumers trying to find a convenient gift for friends and family, gift cards are an easy solution, and it shows: gift cards are projected to grow at a 24% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) until 2023, According to Allied Market Research.

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Zalando Engineering

APRIL 18, 2018

Using Akka cluster-sharding and Akka HTTP on Kubernetes This article captures the implementation of an application serving data over HTTP which is stored in cluster-sharded actors and deployed on Kubernetes. Use case: An application, serving data over HTTP and with a high request rate, and the latency of order of 10ms with limited database IOPS available.

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Zalando Engineering

APRIL 11, 2018

Our experience of The Sprint About two years ago, Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz from Google Ventures published “ The Sprint.” They describe a methodology that helps you answer critical business questions, develop ideas, or tackle problems in just five days, and last year Jake Knapp shared his insights in a fireside chat at Zalando. Last week, we had the chance to see it in action.

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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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Zalando Engineering

APRIL 16, 2018

How data science is becoming available ‘for the good of all’ businesses In his 2010 Ted Talk “ When Ideas Have Sex ,” Matt Ridley posits that human prosperity was caused by one thing and one thing only; our unique human ability to specialise and exchange ideas and tools. Ridley’s example of the invention of the reading light illustrates how far we’ve come.

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