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Data Engineering Weekly with Joe Crobak - Episode 27

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The rate of change in the data engineering industry is alternately exciting and exhausting. Joe Crobak found his way into the work of data management by accident as so many of us do. After being engrossed with researching the details of distributed systems and big data management for his work he began sharing his findings with friends. This led to his creation of the Hadoop Weekly newsletter, which he recently rebranded as the Data Engineering Weekly newsletter.

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Zalando Engineering

Using Akka cluster-sharding and Akka HTTP on Kubernetes This article captures the implementation of an application serving data over HTTP which is stored in cluster-sharded actors and deployed on Kubernetes. Use case: An application, serving data over HTTP and with a high request rate, and the latency of order of 10ms with limited database IOPS available.

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The Democratization of ‘Data Science As A Service’

Zalando Engineering

How data science is becoming available ‘for the good of all’ businesses In his 2010 Ted Talk “ When Ideas Have Sex ,” Matt Ridley posits that human prosperity was caused by one thing and one thing only; our unique human ability to specialise and exchange ideas and tools. Ridley’s example of the invention of the reading light illustrates how far we’ve come.