Confluent

APRIL 16, 2020

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […].

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Start Data Engineering

APRIL 17, 2020

When getting started with Apache Airflow , data engineers have questions similar to the two below “What are people’s opinions of Airflow?

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Teradata

APRIL 16, 2020

How can Teradata's data analytics platform help communities stop the spread of COVID-19? Find out more.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 13, 2020

Summary The software applications that we build for our businesses are a rich source of data, but accessing and extracting that data is often a slow and error-prone process. Rookout has built a platform to separate the data collection process from the lifecycle of your code. In this episode, CTO Liran Haimovitch discusses the benefits of shortening the iteration cycle and bringing non-engineers into the process of identifying useful data.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Confluent

APRIL 14, 2020

If you’re like me, you may be accustomed to reading articles about event streaming that are framed by large organizations and mountains of data. We’ve read about how the event […].

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U-Next

APRIL 17, 2020

Workforce analytics – what sounds like a complex technical term is relatively easy and inevitable when you understand its importance and how to leverage its full potential to your benefit. Some of the elite HR analysts out there have implemented workforce analytics in their businesses and have seen results that their competitors couldn’t dream of. As an HR manager, you need to be aware of these analytics concepts and theories to pave way for organizational and departmental success and curb any b

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Hepta Analytics

APRIL 17, 2020

Last year in September, Hepta Analytics was amongst the few startup companies invited to participate in the World Economic Forum for Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Such a rare opportunity for a young company like ours given the high profile individuals, such as heads of states invited to attend these types of events. It also included a great mix of local, regional and international companies execs, academic and civil society leaders, all coming together to discuss one thing: Shaping inclusi

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Rock the JVM

APRIL 14, 2020

Daniel dives into another rant about learning (and teaching) Scala with loops: Are they truly useful?

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U-Next

APRIL 17, 2020

There’s always a sense of apprehension when someone walks down to the HR desk to put down their papers. More so if it is a key employee whose loss is going to be a definite setback. Then people wonder – the upper management, the line manager, the HR department – how it is that they never saw this coming. There used to be a time when employee retention processes would kick in only after an employee resigned.

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Grouparoo

APRIL 14, 2020

Grouparoo is the Reverse ETL platform to connect Google Sheets data to your SaaS tools. This enables all of those crazy sheets out there to be the source of truth for your profiles and be fed into your marketing tools. Don't forget: with great power comes great responsibility! Google setup In Grouparoo, apps make the connection to facilitate data movement in the form of sources and destinations.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Teradata

APRIL 12, 2020

Learn how Teradata Vantage can usher in a new era of digital transformation and disruptive innovation at your bank. Read more.

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Rock the JVM

APRIL 14, 2020

Daniel dives into another rant about learning (and teaching) Scala with loops: Are they truly useful?

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U-Next

APRIL 17, 2020

It’s time that organizations realize great skillsets like HR Analytics, are the key to bigger businesses. Companies now find it fancy to promote contests around “Best place to work” and the popularity of LinkedIn and Employee Relations departments have gained a significant amount of importance in the last few years. “Human Resources isn’t a thing we do.

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Preset

APRIL 14, 2020

This post details the process of building a GitHub community dashboard by extracting data out of the GitHub API, loading it into a database, and building a Superset dashboard on top of it.

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Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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U-Next

APRIL 17, 2020

Metrics are integral part of any business operation. If there is a process or a workflow in a system and the flow has a series of tasks, there need to be several metrics to identify the efficiency of the process and understand the efficiency of those who contribute and participate in it. Metrics are also embedded psychologically in our minds. When we dine in a good restaurant for instance, our minds quickly tend to take into consideration the quality of the food, the size of the portion served,

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U-Next

APRIL 17, 2020

One of the biggest challenges in IT is managing people and talent. From an HR Analytics perspective, especially, the task becomes all the more complex due to the requirements and needs of people from diverse backgrounds. As an HR professional, you need to keep everyone on the same page and still manage to get things expected by your company and managers done and further work on optimizing recruitment processes, employee satisfaction, payroll concerns, retrenchment and more.

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U-Next

APRIL 17, 2020

The motto to success in today’s competitive world is very simple – the more you learn, the more you evolve and the more you upskill to trending job roles and requirements, the faster you will succeed in life and career. Generally, you can learn things in life in two different ways. You can either learn from others’ mistakes or make your own, regret and learn valuable lessons months from the moment you take a wrong decision and it is this ability to make the right decision that separates wise fro

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Rock the JVM

APRIL 13, 2020

Demystify one of the hardest concepts in Akka Streams: materialized values made simple

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