Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2018

Summary The way that you store your data can have a huge impact on the ways that it can be practically used. For a substantial number of use cases, the optimal format for storing and querying that information is as a graph, however databases architected around that use case have historically been difficult to use at scale or for serving fast, distributed queries.

Database 100

Database PostgreSQL NoSQL Transportation 100

nodeSWAT

AUGUST 21, 2018

Making slow queries fast using composite indexes in MySQL This post expects some basic knowledge of SQL. Examples were made using MySQL 5.7.18 and run on my mid 2014 Macbook Pro. Query execution times are based on multiple executions so index caching can kick in. The use-case came from a real application and the solution is used in production. So you have inserted preliminary data to your database and run a simple COUNT(*) query against it with a simple WHERE clause and… the spinner is still run

MySQL 52

MySQL Datasets Database SQL 52

Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 22, 2018

Building data science products in multi disciplinary teams For the last three years, I have been working on different data science projects at Zalando, helping our more than 24 million customers find the most relevant items in the assortment we have. Along the way, I have learned how to scale data science , or how to build a new personalization product from scratch.

Algorithm 40

Algorithm Data Science Machine Learning Designing 40

ProjectPro

AUGUST 20, 2018

“Cloud is now what we call the new normal. It’s no longer an experiment, it’s no longer an after-thought.”- said Vincent Quah, regional head of education, research, healthcare and non-profit organizations of AWS. Why should I learn AWS? Cloud computing is taking the tech world by storm and so is the need to learn cloud computing.

AWS 40

AWS Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Certification 40

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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