Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 15, 2016
Where in the world should you head to if you want to soak up the energy, innovation, and entrepreneurial success of the tech industry? If you’re looking to get amongst it, consider this your personal travel guide to the cities that are making waves in tech right now. Moscow If low living costs are still a priority, then Moscow should definitely be at the top of your tech hub list.
ProjectPro
AUGUST 9, 2016
After taking comprehensive hands-on hadoop training, the placement season is finally upon you. You applied for a Cognizant Hadoop Job interview and fortunately, were shortlisted. It is just the technical hadoop job interview that separates you from your big data career. At this step, the help that you can get from your hadoop developer resume is over and it’s up to you how you drive your hadoop developer interview and whether you get selected for the hadoop job.
Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 2, 2016
The Ruhr Area is the biggest metropolitan area in Germany, with nearly 5.4 million inhabitants and of course, home to Zalando Tech Dortmund. Being the former industrial heart of Germany, it has made a terrific structural change towards services and information technologies in the last few years. To reflect the growing impact of the Ruhr Area in the IT-sector and to strengthen the frontend community, RuhrJS was founded, an international JavaScript conference taking place from 2-3 July.
ProjectPro
AUGUST 30, 2016
Bank of America has tapped into Hadoop technology to manage and analyse the large amounts of customer and transaction data that it generates. Big Data analytics and Hadoop are the heart of ‘BankAmeriDeals’ program, that provides cashback offers to bank’s credit and debit card holders. The bank collects transaction data from various propensity models and the bank learns which customers are likely to be benefited from refinancing their credit cards with a competitor.
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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.
ProjectPro
AUGUST 26, 2016
Apache Spark is the most active open big data tool reshaping the big data market and has reached the tipping point in 2015.Wikibon analysts predict that Apache Spark will account for one third (37%) of all the big data spending in 2022. The huge popularity spike and increasing spark adoption in the enterprises, is because its ability to process big data faster.
ProjectPro
AUGUST 25, 2016
Considering the Hadoop Job trends in 2010 about Hadoop development, there were none as organizations were not aware of what Hadoop is all about. However, if you search now, for “hadoop jobs”, “hadoop interview questions” and “hadoop training”, you would find thousands of free and paid resources on the internet that will help you learn Hadoop.
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Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 23, 2016
One of the hardest things about being a frontend developer comes from the fact that everybody has very different expectations of what it means to be one. This, along with a technology stack, that changes at the speed of light, makes interviewing for a frontend position tricky. To help you out, and to give an idea as to Zalando’s views on the role, we have prepared some points on what we consider essential knowledge for a frontend developer.
ProjectPro
AUGUST 22, 2016
Capgemini, a leading provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, helps companies identify, design and develop technology programs to sharpen their competitive edge. Hadoop has superlatively provided organizations with the ability to handle an exponentially growing amount of data and Capgemini is no different when it comes to using Hadoop for storing and processing big data.
ProjectPro
AUGUST 18, 2016
To begin your big data career, it is more a necessity than an option to have a Hadoop Certification from one of the popular Hadoop vendors like Cloudera, MapR or Hortonworks. More often than not people opt to take up both - training and certification from either one of the online technology education portals, like Coursera, Udacity, and ProjectPro. Quite a few Hadoop job openings mention specific Hadoop certifications like Cloudera or MapR or Hortonworks, IBM, etc. as a job requirement.
Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 14, 2016
There is pressure to define a global platform architecture and purify concepts of core business within it. Microservices is an appropriate design style to achieve this goal – it lets us evolve systems in parallel, make things look uniform, and implement stable and consistent interfaces across the system. Unfortunately, this architecture style brings additional complexity and new problems.
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!
ProjectPro
AUGUST 11, 2016
When people talk about big data analytics and Hadoop, they think about using technologies like Pig, Hive , and Impala as the core tools for data analysis. However, if you discuss these tools with data scientists or data analysts, they say that their primary and favourite tool when working with big data sources and Hadoop , is the open source statistical modelling language – R.
Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 10, 2016
The newest tool sweeping through the React teams here at Zalando Tech is the classNames npm package. The concept is simple and deletes countless lines of unneeded code, on top of increasing readability. The first time I heard about this useful package was at an All Hands meeting, where tech teams can share what what they are doing with their product.
Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 9, 2016
As a User Researcher at Zalando Tech, one of my goals is to create a deeper understanding of human needs, behaviour, and decision making within the company. To create this empathetic mindset, it's crucial to master conversations with our respondents. This post isn’t merely about interviewing users. It focuses rather on five principles that I have learned in my years at Zalando as a User Researcher that can increase the inspiration and empathy in our daily conversations; with friends and family,
Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 8, 2016
Zalando Tech is growing, with our tech hubs spread throughout Europe: Besides our headquarters in Berlin, we’re in Dortmund , Dublin , and Helsinki , and have smaller Tech teams located in our fulfillment centers in Erfurt and Mönchengladbach. But did you know that we’re also in Hamburg? We’d like to introduce you to another member of the Zalando family: Zalando AdTech Lab Hamburg.
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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.
Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 4, 2016
You might be familiar with our ongoing Zalando Techspert Series , which collects experts from respected companies to talk all things tech, from culture to customers. This month’s theme was about giving employees the right amount of freedom. We had Gen Sadakane, Creative Director and Co-Founder at EyeEm on board together with Mark Ralea, Managing Director at Glossybox.
ProjectPro
AUGUST 1, 2016
News on Hadoop-July 2016 Driven 2.2 allows enterprises to monitor large scale Hadoop and Spark applications. July 4, 2016. insideBIGDATA.com Driven Inc., a leader in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for big data applications has launched its next version – Driven 2.2. Driven Cloud is a component of Driven 2.2 and it is the first SaaS offering that manages big data applications running on Hadoop as a Service (HaaS) (Source: [link] ) For the complete list of big data companies and th
Zalando Engineering
AUGUST 1, 2016
My most recent obsession in the coding world has been design patterns. I love patterns! In my free time I’ve started studying design patterns and algorithms, since I first honed my craft attending a web developer bootcamp as opposed to getting a proper Computer Science degree. Feeling that my knowledge was lacking, I dove in head first. I would like to take the time to share some of that exploration with you.
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