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Recap of Hadoop News for September

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop-September 2016 HPE adapts Vertica analytical database to world with Hadoop, Spark.TechTarget.com,September 1, 2016. To compete in a field of diverse data tools, Vertica 8.0 has expanded its analytical database support for Apache Hadoop and Spark integration and also to enhance Apache Kafka management pipeline. Vertical analytic platform could access hadoop data before but with Vertica 8.0 the analytical engine can now directly work with data stored in hadoop without worrying about

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5G: The Future of Wireless Networks

Zalando Engineering

5G technology is soon approaching. On the suppliers’ end, for Zalando and other companies, this will bring about faster responses and speedier service delivery. On the consumer's’ end, a wider range of products and services will be made available. Due to improved speeds and lower latency from 5G, processes can be expedited, for instance including payment verification and order identification, which means same day delivery of in-stock items becomes the norm in the 5G age. 5G is another step up in

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Jimmy to Microservices – The Journey One Year Later

Zalando Engineering

We started our migration from “Jimmy”, our monolithic shop application, to microservices more than a year ago. We had lots of fun with this project from the beginning of it, with us, Team Spearheads, discussing potential ideas about what to do and how to do it, and then quickly “cowboy coding” some prototypes. Now that the project has become more mature, our challenges have changed from prototyping to optimizing for performance; from “cowboy coding” to providing stable components for other teams

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How a Summer University for Women Makes a Difference

Zalando Engineering

In Germany, like in most other Western European Countries, the proportion of women studying computer sciences is about 10-20% – very low. Some of the main reasons are the bad reputation of programmers, still often tagged as “nerds”, the missing female role models in the tech scene, and the lack of a space to learn without pressure in a supportive environment amongst others in similar positions.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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.