Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 15, 2018

Summary When working with large volumes of data that you need to access in parallel across multiple instances you need a distributed filesystem that will scale with your workload. Even better is when that same system provides multiple paradigms for interacting with the underlying storage. Ceph is a highly available, highly scalable, and performant system that has support for object storage, block storage, and native filesystem access.

Hadoop 100

Hadoop Data Engineer Data Engineering Coding 100

Cloudera

JULY 18, 2018

The practice of medicine is not only a science, it is also an art. With it, difficult situations will arise requiring insightful judgments made by well-trained physicians who can tailor their approach to the needs of patients. As such, we are witnessing a revolution in the healthcare industry, in which there is now an opportunity to employ a new model of improved, personalized, evidence and data-driven clinical care.

Machine Learning 54

Machine Learning Healthcare Medical Electronics 54

Zalando Engineering

JULY 18, 2018

An economic perspective on testing Testing is a controversial topic. People have strong convictions about testing approaches. Test Driven Development is the most prominent example. Clear empirical evidence is missing, which invites strong claims. I advocate for an economic perspective towards testing. Secondly, I claim that focussing too much on unit tests is not the most economic approach.

Software Engineer 40

Software Engineer Software Engineering Coding Architecture 40