Start Data Engineering
APRIL 10, 2020
Many data engineers coming from traditional batch processing frameworks have questions about real time data processing systems, like “What kind of data model did you implement, for real-time processing?
Confluent
APRIL 9, 2020
Many companies have recently started to take cybersecurity and data protection even more seriously, particularly driven by the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. They are increasing their investment […].
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Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 19, 2020
Summary Modern applications frequently require access to real-time data, but building and maintaining the systems that make that possible is a complex and time consuming endeavor. Eventador is a managed platform designed to let you focus on using the data that you collect, without worrying about how to make it reliable. In this episode Eventador Founder and CEO Kenny Gorman describes how the platform is architected, the challenges inherent to managing reliable streams of data, the simplicity off
Teradata
APRIL 6, 2020
By fully utilizing the data for telco operators in China, Teradata helped communities battle the COVID-19 epidemic through ongoing public health communication, travel updates and inquiries.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Netflix Tech
APRIL 20, 2020
How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 By Sekwon Choi At Netflix, we are obsessed with the best streaming experiences. We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. We are also committed to protecting users’ privacy and service security without sacrificing any part of the playback experience.
U-Next
APRIL 17, 2020
Workforce analytics – what sounds like a complex technical term is relatively easy and inevitable when you understand its importance and how to leverage its full potential to your benefit. Some of the elite HR analysts out there have implemented workforce analytics in their businesses and have seen results that their competitors couldn’t dream of. As an HR manager, you need to be aware of these analytics concepts and theories to pave way for organizational and departmental success and curb any b
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Confluent
APRIL 16, 2020
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […].
Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 6, 2020
Summary Knowledge graphs are a data resource that can answer questions beyond the scope of traditional data analytics. By organizing and storing data to emphasize the relationship between entities, we can discover the complex connections between multiple sources of information. In this episode John Maiden talks about how Cherre builds knowledge graphs that provide powerful insights for their customers and the engineering challenges of building a scalable graph.
Teradata
APRIL 29, 2020
Lots of smart people have created many predictive analytics models to help us manage the COVID-19 pandemic. But many of these models use different inputs, different heuristics, and come to different conclusions.
Netflix Tech
APRIL 2, 2020
By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
Advancing Analytics: Data Engineering
APRIL 23, 2020
The thought of learning Scala fills many with fear, its very name often causes feelings of terror. This suggests it’s either doing something very good, or very bad! The truth is Scala can be used for many things; from a simple web application to complex ML (Machine Learning). Moreover, it unusually fully incorporates two programming paradigms: OOP (Object Orientated Programming) and FP (Functional programming).
Start Data Engineering
APRIL 24, 2020
In this article we aim to go over the reasoning behind why someone might want to use dbt. If you are interested in learning dbt checkout this article.
Confluent
APRIL 21, 2020
Confluent Raises $250M and Kicks Off Project Metamorphosis It’s an exciting day for Confluent, in the middle of a very unusual and difficult time in the larger world. Nonetheless, I […].
U-Next
APRIL 22, 2020
Is your HR department failing to embrace the digital transformation (especially AI) revolution? If so, you are not alone. Human resources departments are notorious for lagging behind in adopting new technologies. It comes as no surprise that the use of automation and artificial intelligence in HR is still relatively rare compared to other departments in organizations across different industries.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Teradata
APRIL 16, 2020
How can Teradata's data analytics platform help communities stop the spread of COVID-19? Find out more.
Hepta Analytics
APRIL 17, 2020
Last year in September, Hepta Analytics was amongst the few startup companies invited to participate in the World Economic Forum for Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Such a rare opportunity for a young company like ours given the high profile individuals, such as heads of states invited to attend these types of events. It also included a great mix of local, regional and international companies execs, academic and civil society leaders, all coming together to discuss one thing: Shaping inclusi
Grouparoo
APRIL 14, 2020
Grouparoo is the Reverse ETL platform to connect Google Sheets data to your SaaS tools. This enables all of those crazy sheets out there to be the source of truth for your profiles and be fed into your marketing tools. Don't forget: with great power comes great responsibility! Google setup In Grouparoo, apps make the connection to facilitate data movement in the form of sources and destinations.
Start Data Engineering
APRIL 17, 2020
When getting started with Apache Airflow , data engineers have questions similar to the two below “What are people’s opinions of Airflow?
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Confluent
APRIL 24, 2020
We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.5. With this release, Confluent makes event streaming more broadly accessible to developers of all backgrounds, enhancing three categories of […].
U-Next
APRIL 17, 2020
There’s always a sense of apprehension when someone walks down to the HR desk to put down their papers. More so if it is a key employee whose loss is going to be a definite setback. Then people wonder – the upper management, the line manager, the HR department – how it is that they never saw this coming. There used to be a time when employee retention processes would kick in only after an employee resigned.
Teradata
APRIL 8, 2020
There is no ROI in technology - specifically in data analytics, AI & Machine Learning - until we deploy in production and change the way we do business.
Rockset
APRIL 28, 2020
Recently, InfoWorld’s Martin Heller described Rockset as a "one-of-a-kind database for operational analytics." After testing Rockset with a variety of queries on a large collection, Heller rated Rockset 4.5 out of 5 stars. Heller’s review of Rockset can be found here. Only one of the test queries timed out: SELECT * FROM commons."twitter-firehose" ORDER BY "twitter-firehose".favorite_count DESC LIMIT 10 For context, twitter-firehose is one of Rockset’s demo collections.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Preset
APRIL 14, 2020
This post details the process of building a GitHub community dashboard by extracting data out of the GitHub API, loading it into a database, and building a Superset dashboard on top of it.
Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 27, 2020
Summary Data is a critical element to every role in an organization, which is also what makes managing it so challenging. With so many different opinions about which pieces of information are most important, how it needs to be accessed, and what to do with it, many data projects are doomed to failure. In this episode Chris Bergh explains how taking an agile approach to delivering value can drive down the complexity that grows out of the varied needs of the business.
Confluent
APRIL 27, 2020
When Confluent Schema Registry was first introduced, Apache Avro™ was initially chosen as the default format. While Avro has worked well for many users, over the years, we’ve received many […].
U-Next
APRIL 17, 2020
It’s time that organizations realize great skillsets like HR Analytics, are the key to bigger businesses. Companies now find it fancy to promote contests around “Best place to work” and the popularity of LinkedIn and Employee Relations departments have gained a significant amount of importance in the last few years. “Human Resources isn’t a thing we do.
Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee
As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.
Teradata
APRIL 9, 2020
Teradata participated in the MIT COVID Challenge Hackathon to design approaches and mentor teams focused on stamping out the pandemic. Learn more.
Rockset
APRIL 3, 2020
PROBLEM STATEMENT: Fleet operators often suffer business and monetary losses due to a lack of information on the health of their fleet and inventory it carries. This problem arises due to a lack of real-time data on vehicle health or inventory health, to take preemptive action or real-time action. EXAMPLES: A vehicle’s coolant is leaking and engine temperature is going up.
Preset
APRIL 28, 2020
Unlock Value From Your Data Lake with Dremio and Superset
Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 13, 2020
Summary The software applications that we build for our businesses are a rich source of data, but accessing and extracting that data is often a slow and error-prone process. Rookout has built a platform to separate the data collection process from the lifecycle of your code. In this episode, CTO Liran Haimovitch discusses the benefits of shortening the iteration cycle and bringing non-engineers into the process of identifying useful data.
Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching
In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.
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