Sat.Nov 21, 2020 - Fri.Nov 27, 2020

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Digital Transformation in Style: How Boden Innovates Retail Using Apache Kafka

Confluent

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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Keeping A Bigeye On The Data Quality Market

Data Engineering Podcast

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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2020 Data Impact Award Winner Spotlight: Experian

Cloudera

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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Simple streaming telemetry

Netflix Tech

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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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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IBM and Confluent Announce Strategic Partnership

Confluent

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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Building a Search Engine for Afterpay’s Shop Directory

Afterpay Tech

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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Data Quality at Airbnb

Airbnb Tech

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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Kafkathon 2020: Hacking Event Streams Everywhere

Confluent

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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How to Thrive Amid Disruption

Teradata

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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On course to finding your inner power woman

Cloudera

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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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Scala 3: Mastering Path-Dependent Types and Type Projections

Rock the JVM

Unlock advanced programming techniques with Scala 3: explore dependent types, methods, and functions in this concise tutorial

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How Rockset’s Converged Index Powers Real-Time Analytics

Rockset

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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Inclusion – the glue for diversity

Cloudera

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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2020 Data Impact Award Winner Spotlight: OVO (PT VISIONET INTERNASIONAL)

Cloudera

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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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Making a coffee run? Upgrade CDW while you are gone.

Cloudera

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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How a Discovery Data Warehouse, the next evolution of augmented analytics, accelerates treatments and delivers medicines safely to patients in need

Cloudera

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.