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Unpacking Fauna: A Global Scale Cloud Native Database

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary One of the biggest challenges for any business trying to grow and reach customers globally is how to scale their data storage. FaunaDB is a cloud native database built by the engineers behind Twitter’s infrastructure and designed to serve the needs of modern systems. Evan Weaver is the co-founder and CEO of Fauna and in this episode he explains the unique capabilities of Fauna, compares the consensus and transaction algorithm to that used in other NewSQL systems, and describes the

Database 100
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12 Programming Languages Walk into a Kafka Cluster…

Confluent

When it was first created, Apache Kafka ® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages which enables you to pick the language you want. This freedom of choice ultimately allows you to build an event streaming platform with the language best suited to your business needs.

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3 Ways New As-a-Service Offerings Bring Choice and Flexibility to Teradata Vantage

Teradata

At Teradata, we think a lot about our customers in the cloud, and continue on our promise to deliver choice and flexibility by adding new as-a-service options for Teradata Vantage.

Cloud 83
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Breaking Down Data Silos in Financial Services with a Centralized Data Management Platform

Cloudera

Organizations in the financial services industry rely on data to make strategic decisions, drive their businesses, and maintain a competitive edge. The Bank of England was discovering that legacy tools were no longer sufficient to satisfy the growing demands of analysts and economists. The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom formed in 1694.

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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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Open Source: March Updates - A new Kubernetes operator & more Cloud Native Apps

Zalando Engineering

Project Highlights A new operator is added to Zalando’s list of Cloud Native Applications. Elasticsearch Operator - an operator for running Elasticsearch in Kubernetes with focus on operational aspects, like safe draining and offering auto-scaling capabilities for Elasticsearch data nodes, rather than just abstracting manifest definitions. To make things even simpler for developers, we also released a new framework that helps to build Kubernetes operators in Python.

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Testing Event-Driven Systems

Confluent

So you’ve convinced your friends and stakeholders about the benefits of event-driven systems. You have successfully piloted a few services backed by Apache Kafka ® , and it is now supporting business-critical dataflow. Each distinct service has a nice, pure data model with extensive unit tests, but now with new clients (and consequently new requirements) coming thick and fast, the number of these services is rapidly increasing.

Systems 93

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Should Marketeers ditch the concept of Millennials as everyone wants to be treated this way, right?

Cloudera

It is very easy to think this may be true as future generations of consumers, such as Gen Z, desire many of the same customer interactions and experiences from brands as millennials. But lets dig a little deeper into this this question. Even though both of these groups may look young, there are many differences in their shopping habits, interactions with brands, valuation of products and services, and how they view their money.

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Learning DevOps as a Software Engineer

Zalando Engineering

At Zalando the teams are autonomous and involved in the entire software development process - from gathering stakeholder requirements to design, implementation, testing and deployment. For me, this was one of the greatest challenges/opportunities of joining Zalando and it allowed me to grow on so many dimensions of software development, one of these being DevOps.

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Creating an IoT-Based, Data-Driven Food Value Chain with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

Industries are oftentimes more complex than we think. For example, the dinner you order at a restaurant or the ingredients you buy (or have delivered) to cook dinner at home encounter a number of parties along the supply chain before making it to your table or kitchen. Think about it. You have farmers. You have transportation companies. You have food processors.

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