Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 22, 2019

Summary One of the biggest challenges for any business trying to grow and reach customers globally is how to scale their data storage. FaunaDB is a cloud native database built by the engineers behind Twitter’s infrastructure and designed to serve the needs of modern systems. Evan Weaver is the co-founder and CEO of Fauna and in this episode he explains the unique capabilities of Fauna, compares the consensus and transaction algorithm to that used in other NewSQL systems, and describes the

Database 100

Database Cloud NoSQL Scala 100

Confluent

APRIL 23, 2019

When it was first created, Apache Kafka ® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages which enables you to pick the language you want. This freedom of choice ultimately allows you to build an event streaming platform with the language best suited to your business needs.

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Programming Language Kafka Programming Scala 102

Teradata

APRIL 23, 2019

At Teradata, we think a lot about our customers in the cloud, and continue on our promise to deliver choice and flexibility by adding new as-a-service options for Teradata Vantage.

Cloud 83

Cloud 83

Cloudera

APRIL 25, 2019

Organizations in the financial services industry rely on data to make strategic decisions, drive their businesses, and maintain a competitive edge. The Bank of England was discovering that legacy tools were no longer sufficient to satisfy the growing demands of analysts and economists. The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom formed in 1694.

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Data Management Banking Management Insurance 62

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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?

Business Intelligence

Zalando Engineering

APRIL 24, 2019

Project Highlights A new operator is added to Zalando’s list of Cloud Native Applications. Elasticsearch Operator - an operator for running Elasticsearch in Kubernetes with focus on operational aspects, like safe draining and offering auto-scaling capabilities for Elasticsearch data nodes, rather than just abstracting manifest definitions. To make things even simpler for developers, we also released a new framework that helps to build Kubernetes operators in Python.

Cloud 52

Cloud Python Big Data Data Science 52

Confluent

APRIL 25, 2019

Industries are oftentimes more complex than we think. For example, the dinner you order at a restaurant or the ingredients you buy (or have delivered) to cook dinner at home encounter a number of parties along the supply chain before making it to your table or kitchen. Think about it. You have farmers. You have transportation companies. You have food processors.

Food 80

Food Cloud Kafka Transportation 80

Cloudera

APRIL 24, 2019

It is very easy to think this may be true as future generations of consumers, such as Gen Z, desire many of the same customer interactions and experiences from brands as millennials. But lets dig a little deeper into this this question. Even though both of these groups may look young, there are many differences in their shopping habits, interactions with brands, valuation of products and services, and how they view their money.

Insurance 53

Insurance Retail Consulting IT 53

Zalando Engineering

APRIL 24, 2019

At Zalando the teams are autonomous and involved in the entire software development process - from gathering stakeholder requirements to design, implementation, testing and deployment. For me, this was one of the greatest challenges/opportunities of joining Zalando and it allowed me to grow on so many dimensions of software development, one of these being DevOps.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Software Engineer Engineering Architecture 40

Confluent

APRIL 24, 2019

So you’ve convinced your friends and stakeholders about the benefits of event-driven systems. You have successfully piloted a few services backed by Apache Kafka ® , and it is now supporting business-critical dataflow. Each distinct service has a nice, pure data model with extensive unit tests, but now with new clients (and consequently new requirements) coming thick and fast, the number of these services is rapidly increasing.

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Systems Kafka Transportation Coding 95