Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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Self Service Business Intelligence And Data Sharing Using Looker with Daniel Mintz - Episode 55

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Business intelligence is a necessity for any organization that wants to be able to make informed decisions based on the data that they collect. Unfortunately, it is common for different portions of the business to build their reports with different assumptions, leading to conflicting views and poor choices. Looker is a modern tool for building and sharing reports that makes it easy to get everyone on the same page.

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Making smart cities safer with data

Cloudera

By Mark Micallef, Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan , Cloudera. What comes to your mind when you think of the term “smart city”? For me, it conjures an image of a city where everything is interconnected, enabling it to run efficiently and offer convenient, secure, and personalized services to its residents at the touch of their fingertips. While such a city might sound like a utopian dream, it could potentially turn into a dystopian nightmare if we overlook the risks brought about by the

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Rockset's RocksDB-Cloud Library - Enabling the Next Generation of Cloud Native Databases

Rockset

Rockset and I began collaborating in 2016 due to my interest in their RocksDB-Cloud open-source key-value store. This post is primarily about the RocksDB-Cloud software, which Rockset open-sourced in 2016, rather than Rockset's newly launched cloud service. In it, I will explore how RocksDB-Cloud can be used to build an open-source cloud-friendly storage system.

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Train Deep Learning Models on AWS

Zalando Engineering

A real-life example of how to train a Deep Learning model on an AWS Spot Instance using Spotty Spotty is a tool that simplifies training of Deep Learning models on AWS. Why will you ❤️this tool? it makes training on AWS GPU instances as simple as a training on your local computer it automatically manages all necessary AWS resources including AMIs, volumes and snapshots it makes your model trainable on AWS by everyone with a couple of commands it detaches remote processes from SSH sessions it sav

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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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Five strategies for skills-based volunteering: Lessons learned from Cloudera Cares first-ever Global Day of Service

Cloudera

Corporate volunteering is on the rise. However, only half of companies encourage their employees to participate in skills-based volunteering – defined as employees applying their abilities and specialized talents to challenges facing their communities. As the Program Manager for Cloudera Cares, Cloudera’s employee giving and volunteering program at the Cloudera Foundation, I believe that we can have more impact if we offer employees opportunities for skills-based volunteering.

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Open Source: October Review - Hacktoberfest, new releases and more.

Zalando Engineering

Project Highlights Connexion version 2.0 with OpenAPI 3 support is ready, check out what is new in our latest release! Connexion is the Swagger/OpenAPI first framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation & OAuth2 support. With 87 active contributors and more than 1,000 repositories that depend on Connexion worldwide makes this project one of the most successful open source releases of Zalando.