Sat.Jan 13, 2018 - Fri.Jan 19, 2018

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CRDTs and Distributed Consensus with Christopher Meiklejohn - Episode 14

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary As we scale our systems to handle larger volumes of data, geographically distributed users, and varied data sources the requirement to distribute the computational resources for managing that information becomes more pronounced. In order to ensure that all of the distributed nodes in our systems agree with each other we need to build mechanisms to properly handle replication of data and conflict resolution.

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The Top 10 Most Popular VISION Blogs of 2017

Cloudera

The New Year is a great time to make resolutions, but it’s also a great time to reflect on the previous year. Before we get too far into 2018, let’s take a look at the ten most popular Cloudera VISION blogs from 2017. Today is an important day in the life of Cloudera. On April 28, 2017, Mike Olson , as one of the founders of Cloudera, writes about the initial public offering, and what the milestone means.

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Drawn Together

Zalando Engineering

How to talk about design in the agile world How we improved design communication in the Retail Ops Team With an agile and lean approach, most of us here at Zalando changed the way we build digital products. Design processes also evolved,  with  designers usually working alongside cross-functional product teams. But, at first, one thing did not change too much: how we talk about the design.