June, 2015

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Big Data is an illusion - There is no Big Data.

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If you came here to read about how Big Data is an illusion, then you are in the wrong place. Yes, you read that right. Big Data has become an entity on its own. Everything we do today generates data – big data. Each of these data points are collected, stored and analysed – to sell a product/service customized to individual tastes and preferences, to study behaviour patterns for sentiment analysis to see if it affects national/political policies, etc.It is not an exaggeration to state

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What We Learned While Making Zalando's Apple Watch App

Zalando Engineering

In May the Zalando mobile team updated our iOS app to include several extra features, including navigation and a new product detail page. We also included Apple Watch support for the very first time, to make the Zalando app more user-friendly and innovative. Because it’s so new, the WatchKit framework is likely to present some challenges even for highly experienced iOS developers.

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Big Data vs. Crowdsourcing Ventures - Revolutionizing Business Processes

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As many big data companies ramp up huge investments in big data to capture business insights by scrambling to employ data scientists , data engineers and data analysts-big data crowdsourcing can add value to an organizations investment plans. For Silicon Valley startups launching a big data platform, the best way to reduce expenses is to pay remote workers so that they can distribute tasks to people who have internet access anywhere in the world.

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Hadoop- The Next Big Thing in India

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IT is a lucrative career option offering high paying jobs but it is an ever changing job market. Big Data Hadoop skills are most sought after as there is no open source framework that can deal with petabytes of data generated by organizations the way hadoop does. 2014 was the year people realized the capability of transforming big data to valuable information and the power of Hadoop in impeding it.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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.

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Industry Interview Series-Big Data in Healthcare

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With doctors using the data from dedicated wearable fitness devices to personalize healthcare services to a patient, big data analytics is at the core of healthcare operations today.Data-driven decision making is changing models of treatment delivery in healthcare sectors. Healthcare institutions are now able to understand and analyse the probability of a person picking up serious illness at a very early stage that treatment is affordable and simple than if it is spotted until later.

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Auto-Scaling Your API: Tips from Zalando (Slides)

Zalando Engineering

Over the weekend a delegation of Zalandos were in Barcelona, Spain to enjoy the first-ever JBCNConf : the Barcelona Java Users Group's first-ever conference for Java and JVM enthusiasts. Two of our crew — Delivery Lead Sean Floyd and Software Engineer Luis Mineiro — went the extra step and gave a presentation on Zalando's "API First" approach. As Luis and Sean explained in their talk, Zalando is in the middle of a paradigm shift: an evolution from online fashion shop to fashion platform.

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RSVP for Recommenders.ie’s July Meetup at Zalando-Dublin

Zalando Engineering

When it comes to hosting tech meetups, Zalando’s brand-new Fashion Insights Centre in Dublin is officially in full swing. Earlier this month we hosted the Dublin Cassandra Users , our very first tech meetup in our spacious Silicon Docks digs—and on July 1 we’re opening our doors to recommenders.ie , a new group for recommender systems enthusiasts. The night will include two talks: Gracenote Research Engineer Cameron Summer will explain how to enhance entertainment data systems using algorithmic

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Zalando Goes to GOTO Amsterdam 2015

Zalando Engineering

For the second time in two weeks, a posse of Zalando technologists are donning our "We Dress Code" hoodies, packing up our stickers and swag, and traveling to Amsterdam to attend a first-class tech conference. (Last week's event: Scala Days.) This week's major event is the localized installment of GOTO, the international software development conference series hosted and organized by Trifork.

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Zalando Hosts PostgreSQL Meetup Group Berlin #2

Zalando Engineering

For the second installment of the PostgreSQL Meetup Group , we have a special surprise: Devrim Gündüz, a major contributor to PostgreSQL and a well-known community member, is in town from Istanbul, Turkey and will give us some insights into backup and recovery solutions for Postgres. We’ll also have long-standing Postgres community member Susanne Schmidt present on pgTap, a unit-testing framework for your Postgres database.

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Zalando-Dublin Presents "Cassandra in Focus"

Zalando Engineering

Next week Zalando Senior DBA Jan Mußler will travel north to our new Dublin office to present a talk on how we use Cassandra in our monitoring and analytics work--and we couldn't be more excited, because this will be Z-Dublin's first-ever tech meetup. Jan's talk is part of the Dublin Cassandra Users meetup , which will also include a presentation by DataStax evangelist Christopher Batey.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

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.

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Industry Interview Series- How Big Data is Transforming Business Intelligence?

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In an era of digital transformation of enterprises, there are several questions that have arisen- How can business intelligence provide real time insights? How can business intelligence scale and analyse the growing data heap? How can business intelligence meet changing business needs? Business Intelligence (BI) combines human knowledge, technologies like distributed computing, and Artificial Intelligence, and big data analytics to augment business decisions for driving enterprise’s succes

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RSVP for New Relic’s Free Workshop with Zalando Mobile

Zalando Engineering

Zalando Mobile Delivery Lead Jan Gorman is teaming up with New Relic to give a free workshop on how Zalando’s mobile team uses New Relic to improve our customer experience. As Jan recently told New Relic’s Manesh Tailor , Zalando mobile has been using New Relic for crash reporting and to monitor the performance of our third-party APIs. In his workshop, Jan will discuss how to: use New Relic to achieve business results provide a high-quality customer experience across software applications gain i

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5 Tips for Turning Big Data to Big Success

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2015 will be the year that many big data companies will take their big data analytics to the next level by turning big data into actionable insights. This will supercharge the marketing tactics of the business and make data precious than ever. Before organizations rely on data driven decision making, it is important for them to have a good processing power like Hadoop in place for data processing.

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How to grab the high-paying jobs in todays Big Data and Cloud Computing field?

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3 out of 5 highest paid jobs require big data and cloud computing skills. For professionals aiming to earn biggest bucks in the fastest growing industry, they need to become big data experts. The root of tech innovation in Silicon Valley startups and other well-established companies across the world are opening up high paid big data jobs for IT professionals.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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5 Unusual Big Data Applications

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Big data is in its beginnings and is growing at a rapid pace. Big data applications differ from the expected to the unexpected and some of them are even unusual and mysterious. Big data has endless possibilities and this is the right time for organizations to find the big data applications in their business. We have described various big data applications in different industries for managing inventory flow or enhancing customer experience or for useful business decision making.

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DeZyre InSync-Mobile Deep App Search

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The biggest pain point for the users of the mobile app world is that every app has to be downloaded on the device making it difficult to navigate between the apps unlike websites which is much easier. Mobile Deep App search is a simmering topic around mobile applications, however is likely to have major impact on ads, commerce and mobile apps. Mobile Deep Linking is the novel digital marketing battleground with the promise of enhanced mobile app discoverability for businesses.

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Speeding up Xcode Builds

Zalando Engineering

A few months ago Jan Gorman , delivery lead for Zalando’s mobile engineering team, published a great overview of our team’s development processes. I’d like to drill down a bit deeper on one topic of great importance to us: development speed. My interest in this subject was recently piqued after I read Spotify’s blog post about how their mobile team sped up their Xcode build time in the Edit-Build cycle.

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10 reasons why you should use NodeJs

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Every novel technology gains momentum and attracts attention in the beginning as startups are open to experimenting with new technologies at any given time, however we can see that big established organizations are shifting to Node.js from years of legacy systems. Developers know that a new “game-changing” technology paves way into the IT market every few months just to pass into extinction later but that is not the case with Node.js.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Hadoop Ecosystem Components and Its Architecture

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The demand for Big data Hadoop training courses has increased after Hadoop made a special showing in various enterprises for big data management in a big way.Big data hadoop training course that deals with the implementation of various industry use cases is necessary Understand how the hadoop ecosystem works to master Apache Hadoop skills and gain in-depth knowledge of big data ecosystem and hadoop architecture.However, before you enroll for any big data hadoop training course it is necessary to

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How Hadoop makes Big Data to look small?

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“What is Hadoop?” might seem a simple question but the answer to this question is not so simple because over the time Hadoop has grown into a complex ecosystem of various competitive and complementary projects. The path to learning hadoop is steep but using Hadoop framework successfully is not so easy. Hadoop is an interesting and powerful framework that makes even big data to look small through faster data processing by filling in many different roles in an enterprise based on the k

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