Data Engineering Podcast
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
Summary The responsibilities of a data scientist and a data engineer often overlap and occasionally come to cross purposes. Despite these challenges it is possible for the two roles to work together effectively and produce valuable business outcomes. In this episode Will McGinnis discusses the opinions that he has gained from experience on how data teams can play to their strengths to the benefit of all.
Uber Engineering
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
In 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company. For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone. As our … The post Code Migration in Production: Rewriting the Sharding Layer of Uber’s Schemaless Datastore appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Zalando Engineering
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Why FOSDEM is not your average conference I could get cheeky with semantics and point out that the “M” in FOSDEM stands for “Meeting”. But I’ll play nice and focus instead on the specifics of the event itself. FOSDEM has been running since 2001. In that time, it has grown to become the open source community event for Europe. Over a two-day event, thousands of attendees descend upon the ULB in Brussels to attend what is, in reality, a collection of conferences.
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Running a large company is impossible without having an ERP system in place, and SAP business software remains at the forefront in this category. But when companies are looking towards new technologies such as data lakes, machine learning or predictive analytics, SAP alone is just not enough. To keep up with tech trends, businesses have to face the challenges of integrating SAP with non-SAP technologies and embark on a crusade against data silos.
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Zalando Engineering
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Multi-functional teams make for a greater customer journey When I started in Zalando Tech, I hadn’t worked with a product manager before, and I had probably never seen a UX designer, a UI designer, a researcher or a business developer before either. My world was data science, more specifically, personalization and recommender systems. In this isolated bubble, data scientists often thought we could solve all problems without help, but in the last two years, I came to understand why we need to sto
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