Confluent

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As a clothing retailer with more than 1.5 million customers worldwide, Boden is always looking to capitalise on business moments to drive sales. For example, when the Duchess of Cambridge […].

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

This year’s Data Impact Awards were like none other that we’ve ever hosted. While everyone attended from the comfort of their own homes (and timezones), we were still able to celebrate the fantastic achievements of our customers. From all corners of the globe, our customers have delivered incredible amounts of innovation in the enterprise, while overcoming many of the challenges and disruptions 2020 has brought.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Summary One of the oldest aphorisms about data is "garbage in, garbage out", which is why the current boom in data quality solutions is no surprise. With the growth in projects, platforms, and services that aim to help you establish and maintain control of the health and reliability of your data pipelines it can be overwhelming to stay up to date with how they all compare.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members. A backbone network underlies a large portion of the CDN, and we also run the high capacity networks that support our studios and corporate offices.

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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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Confluent

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I’m excited to announce a new strategic partnership with IBM. As part of this partnership, IBM will be reselling Confluent Platform, enabling its customers to leverage their existing IBM relationships […].

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With the complexity of data growing across the enterprise and emerging approaches to machine learning and AI use cases, data scientists and machine learning engineers have needed more versatile and efficient ways of enabling data access, faster processing, and better, more customizable resource management across their machine learning projects. The truth is that one size does not fit all, and managing all aspects of enterprise machine learning requires a lightweight, versatile, and customizable

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Airbnb Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Part 2 — A New Gold Standard Authors: Vaughn Quoss, Jonathan Parks, Paul Ellwood Introduction At Airbnb, we’ve always had a data-driven culture. We’ve assembled top-notch data science and engineering teams, built industry-leading data infrastructure, and launched numerous successful open source projects, including Apache Airflow and Apache Superset.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As part of this year’s Kafka Summit, the Confluent Community team hosted a community hackathon named Kafkathon 2020. The event provided an opportunity for participants to learn, build, and showcase […].

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

This year’s European Women in Tech Online Festival might have been virtual but the agenda was as impactful as ever, featuring some truly amazing women each telling their remarkable, and personal, stories. The festival has become a symbol of empowerment and this year Cloudera was able to double the number of passes for women across its EMEA business to attend.

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Afterpay Tech

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash By Jose Picado , Qiao Wang , and Yi Li Context Our Shop Directory is used by our consumers to discover stores, brands, and products. It is incredibly valuable for our retail partners: Almost 20 million referrals per month in the 2020 July - Sept quarter. The Shop Directory, available on the Web and our mobile app, contains nearly 64,000 stores, and each store sells 1000s of products.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Teradata

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

In the 2nd Oxford Saïd Customer Executive Education workshop, leaders from the financial services sector debated the rise of the platform economy & how the bank of the future can compete.

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Rockset

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Rockset makes it easier to serve modern data applications at scale and at speed. From personalization and gaming to logistics or IoT, Rockset automatically and continuously ingests and indexes structured and semi-structured data at scale for a solution that supports latency-sensitive queries for real-time analytics. How do we do that? Built on open-source RocksDB, a high-performance, distributed storage engine, the Converged Index™, is an important component of our real-time database.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In my last post , I’ve shared that true workplace diversity extends beyond gender parity. The goal should instead be cognitive diversity, which includes diversity of thinking, perspective, and intellectual style. Having a variety of thoughts and opinions can increase organizational effectiveness to help companies improve and grow. . However, leaders also need to understand that diversity should not be a tick-the-box program.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

According to the dictionary, to call yourself a Champion means to have surpassed all rivals in a competition. This year, OVO has done just that, setting itself apart to win the Data Champions category at our 2020 Data Impact Awards. This category recognizes organizations whose IT administration provides the agility a business requires, without putting the business at risk, and embraces a pattern of technology adoption that prioritizes speed.

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Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Upgrading components of Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) is as easy as one decision and a few clicks. While the Database (DB) Catalog and Virtual Warehouses (VWs) need to be compatible, the CDW upgrade framework understands the interoperability constraints between them. . Finding upgrades: CDW UI also has visual alerts to indicate when a new release is available.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I met Matthew in New York City about a year ago. We sat in a private conference room and he told me the story of his pharma startup. A small group of researchers set out to solve the black-box enigma of certain kinds of vicious cancers. There are so many cancers, so their vision was to focus on especially heinous ones. Fast forward to their recent FDA approval of their “Hail Mary” procedure and treatment methodology for stage-four patients of a particular cancer.

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