Rockset

MARCH 26, 2023

Folks have definitely tried, and while Apache Kafka® has become the standard for event-driven architectures, it still struggles to replace your everyday PostgreSQL database instance in the modern application stack. In the interest of full disclosure, it’s worth mentioning that I am a former Confluent employee, now working at Rockset.

Cloud 52

Cloud PostgreSQL Kafka Database 52

Confluent

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It takes much more effort than just building an analytic model with Python and your favorite machine learning framework. So why did Uber (and many other tech companies) build its own platform and framework-independent machine learning infrastructure? Impedance mismatch between data scientists, data engineers and production engineers.

Machine Learning 107

Machine Learning Python Kafka Java 107

Data Engineering Weekly

APRIL 9, 2023

Data Engineering Weekly Is Brought to You by RudderStack RudderStack provides data pipelines that make collecting data from every application, website, and SaaS platform easy, then activating it in your warehouse and business tools. I’m so curious to know your take on this problem. Please vote and share your experience.

Data Engineering 52

Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering AWS 52

Rockset

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This blog series will help demystify streaming data, and more specifically, provide engineering leaders a guide for incorporating streaming data into their analytics pipelines. Third, events on their own are not ideal for understanding the current state of a system. Kafka or Kinesis ? Stream processing or an OLAP database?

Kafka 52

Kafka AWS Amazon Web Services Programming Language 52

Confluent

MAY 28, 2019

Part 1 of this blog series by Gwen Shapira explained the benefits of schemas, contracts between services, and compatibility checking for schema evolution. In particular, using Confluent Schema Registry makes this really easy for developers to use schemas, and it is designed to be highly available. Inconsistent configurations.

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Management Kafka Java Certification 83

Monte Carlo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Whatnot brings together commerce and entertainment in categories like trading cards, sports cards, and fashion, to video games, streetwear, and beyond. Founded in late 2019, the livestream shopping platform Whatnot has grown to become one of the largest online marketplaces for collectibles in the U.S. Think Twitch meets eBay. Let’s dive in.

Machine Learning 52

Machine Learning Data Entertainment SQL 52

Confluent

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Trust: Run it on the rails with instrumentation and throughput monitoring. operational processes) or externally (think GitHub for your applications state). The streaming topology shows a flow of data through an organization, representing the real-time DNA of your business. Stepping through an example of an event streaming app.

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Architecture Programming Kafka Database-centric 90