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Handling Bursty Traffic in Real-Time Analytics Applications

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Database makers have experimented with different designs to scale for bursts of data traffic without sacrificing speed, features or cost. Lambda Architecture: Too Many Compromises A decade ago, a multitiered database architecture called Lambda began to emerge. One layer processes batches of historic data.

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Aggregator Leaf Tailer: An Alternative to Lambda Architecture for Real-Time Analytics

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Aggregator Leaf Tailer (ALT) is the data architecture favored by web-scale companies, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, for its efficiency and scalability. In this blog post, I will describe the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture and its advantages for low-latency data processing and analytics.

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Maintaining Your Data Lake At Scale With Spark

Data Engineering Podcast

We have partnered with organizations such as O’Reilly Media, Dataversity, and the Open Data Science Conference. Coming up this fall is the combined events of Graphorum and the Data Architecture Summit. The Lambda architecture was popular in the early days of Hadoop but seems to have fallen out of favor.

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