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Analytics-on-the-fly: from batch to real-time user engagement

Rockset

It was the winter of 2007 when I logged into my newly created Facebook account for the very first time and I was amazed to see Facebook immediately show me three of my friends with whom I had lost touch since elementary school. No more batch analytics.this is analytics-on-the-fly! Then things started to become more real-time.

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Top 8 Data Engineering Books [Beginners to Advanced]

Knowledge Hut

It covers popular technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, and Apache Hadoop, giving users practical advice on developing and executing effective data pipelines. With helpful illustrations and thorough explanations, it assists readers in comprehending how to use Spark for big data processing and analytics applications.