March, 2015

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We Launched It! The Zalando Space Shoe (Video)

Zalando Engineering

February 21, 2015 marked another milestone in the success story of Zalando: we sent a shoe into the stratosphere! After a failed launch in mid-December during our Zalando Hack Week, the Space Shoe Team resolved to persevere and try again. Over the following weeks we made some adjustments to our prototype and planned a new attempt. Our fine-tuning included buying a more resistant rope for holding the ship; improving the coordination around releasing the balloon and craft so that we could avoid ov

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NoSQL vs SQL- 4 Reasons Why NoSQL is better for Big Data applications

ProjectPro

Big Data NoSQL databases were pioneered by top internet companies like Amazon, Google, LinkedIn and Facebook to overcome the drawbacks of RDBMS. RDBMS is not always the best solution for all situations as it cannot meet the increasing growth of unstructured data. As data processing requirements grow exponentially, NoSQL is a dynamic and cloud friendly approach to dynamically process unstructured data with ease.IT professionals often debate the merits of SQL vs.

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Big Data Analytics- The New Player in ICC World Cup Cricket 2023

ProjectPro

Big data analytics is new to sports but not a novel concept to businesses. The collection and analysis of huge amounts of unstructured data i.e. big data to optimize performance is transforming the society. Big data in sports is no exception as increased number of sports teams across the globe are leveraging analytics to plan novel gaming strategies and evaluate players efficiently so that they can stay head of the competition.

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How is Hadoop Transforming the Telecommunication industry?

ProjectPro

The amount of big data telecommunication industry generates has high velocity and volume. In a hypercompetitive industry, to be profitable and successful telecommunication companies have to differentiate their offerings and target customers effectively. With information collected about customer behaviour and preferences, big data in telecom means bigger opportunities for telecommunication companies.

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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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What is Hadoop 2.0 High Availability?

ProjectPro

Hadoop 1.0 was intensive and played a significant role in processing large data sets, however it was not an ideal choice for interactive analysis and was constrained for machine learning, graph and memory intensive data analysis algorithms. In one of our previous articles we had discussed about Hadoop 2.0 YARN framework and how the responsibility of managing the Hadoop cluster is shifting from MapReduce towards YARN.

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Healthcare Big Data Projects, Applications and Examples

ProjectPro

There is a lot of buzz around big data making the world a better place and the best example to understand this is analysing the uses of big data in healthcare industry. Big data in healthcare is used for reducing cost overhead, curing diseases, improving profits, predicting epidemics and enhancing the quality of human life by preventing deaths. Scientific research labs, hospitals and other medical institutions are leveraging big data analytics to reduce healthcare costs by changing the models of