Uber Engineering
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Uber Engineering’s Schemaless storage system powers some of the biggest services at Uber, such as Mezzanine. Schemaless is a scalable and highly available datastore on top of MySQL ¹ clusters. Managing these clusters was fairly easy when we had … The post Dockerizing MySQL at Uber Engineering appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
After seeing the State of JavaScript survey make headway online, we thought it would be interesting to do the same for Zalando to get a better understanding about what technologies and frameworks we’re using here. For the JavaScript survey, participating developers answered questions on topics ranging from frontend frameworks and state management, to build tools and testing libraries.
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ProjectPro
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Having worked your way up in the IT totem pole in the same job role, you have decided this is the best to find new horizons, new environment and a new gig in the big data domain. Starting a new career is exciting but it is not easy as lot of analysis goes into choosing a new career path. Let’s help you out with some detailed analysis on the career path taken by hadoop developers so you can easily decide on the career path you should follow to become a Hadoop developer.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
This year was RecSys’ 10th anniversary, and we were lucky enough to be in attendance. The evolution of the conference is great to see – it has grown from a mid-size event beginning in 2009, to an ever-sold-out conference in the past few years, with one of the bests mixes of industry and academia you can find. It also has an open and welcoming community, where the standard of work being presented is incredibly high.
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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?
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Our team have been building data science products together for almost one year now. We believe that data scientists and data engineers should work closely together, yet we understand the differences in the environments and tasks that each of us perform. In this vein, we have iterated the way we do data science, specially early stage exploratory data science with large datasets.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
TL;DR: The API-first approach combined with Connexion are powerful tools to create effective microservices. The use of API-first brings the benefit of creating APIs that fulfil the expectations of your clients. Besides that, using Connexion will help you develop APIs in Python in a smooth manner. Google’s acquisition of Apigee emphasises how important APIs are in today’s architecture of applications.
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Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Elasticsearch is a technology that has been gaining popularity lately at Zalando Tech. We’ve learned that it’s a state of the art tool, and in the hands of a data artist can be used to design data models to conquer information retrieval challenges at a very large scale in a performant, distributed manner. The success of Elasticsearch as a technology is due to the various use cases it fits.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
The fashion industry has been dominated by the elite for decades. Access to top products and brands were once restricted, while trendsetters were the only people on the guest list for the hottest events. Zalando wants to open up this world and grant greater access, reduce barriers, and empower customers. Zalando’s vision is to connect people and fashion.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
As a Producer at Zalando, our roles are instrumental in supporting development teams achieve excellence when delivering software. We help them by creating an environment where every team member can give their best. A few months ago, I read an article written by Woody Zuill about Mob Programming , a fairly new concept based on how we approach teamwork in software development.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
It may sound like a cliche, but I love working with people – especially engineers. The energy, creativity, and innovation that comes out of the software development process is like a never ending tank of fuel. Producers at Zalando are the organizational engines of their teams. We’re responsible for managing product releases, external project dependencies and deliverables, as well as refining requirements, features, and user stories.
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.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Our tech organization is always looking for ways to improve its systems and processes – we’re constantly striving to be better. To increase team autonomy and improve delivery time, we’re currently piloting InnerSource, a development approach that applies open source principles to the way companies develop software internally. Our initial pilot of the approach focused on teams working within product clusters whose work presented opportunities for cross-collaboration.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
I am not a fan of the Angular-way in Angular1, as I think it looks rather strange. Nevertheless, Angular2 gives a much better impression in terms of code structure, code purity, and scalability. While they didn’t reinvent the wheel, its creators have built something interesting and spectacular that stacks up well against modern frameworks (React and Redux, Aurelia, etc.).
ProjectPro
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Understanding the Hadoop architecture now gets easier! This blog will give you an indepth insight into the architecture of hadoop and its major components- HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce. We will also look at how each component in the Hadoop ecosystem plays a significant role in making Hadoop efficient for big data processing. Table of Contents Hadoop Architecture - The Inception How do Businesses Leverage the Hadoop Application Architecture?
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
As Europe's largest online fashion platform with a vision to connect all players in the fashion business, we want to open up even more to the startup community by doing what we know – encouraging the next generation of fashpreneurs to scale tech in fashion. There is an ocean of opportunity out there, from the latest developments in AR/VR technology to the new wave of content creators shaking up the brand game.
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.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
You may have heard recently from one of the many media outlets about the launch of Collabary , the content creator platform from Zalando. This showcases the perfect merger of enriched data with a high quality frontend application. In this blog post I’d like to give my lessons learnt from being part of the team involved in this project, based here in Dublin.
Zalando Engineering
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
The Design Sprint (or just The Sprint) is the process introduced by Google Ventures and Jake Knapp, author of “ The Sprint ”. The main method idea is to answer the most critical project questions and doubts in just one week. There’s no endless brainstorming sessions, no coding – just short, highly energetic activities that push your product forward.
ProjectPro
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
News on Hadoop-October 2016 Microsoft upgrades Azure HDInsight, its Hadoop Big Data offering.SiliconAngle.com,October 2, 2016. Microsoft and Hortonworks Inc. product Azure HDInsight is a managed Hadoop service that gives users access to deploy and manage hadoop clusters on the Azure Cloud. Microsoft has upgraded this cloud based platform with new security enhancements and a performance boost that the company states will speed up Big Data queries 25x.
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