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SiriDB: Scalable Open Source Timeseries Database with Jeroen van der Heijden - Episode 11

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Time series databases have long been the cornerstone of a robust metrics system, but the existing options are often difficult to manage in production. In this episode Jeroen van der Heijden explains his motivation for writing a new database, SiriDB, the challenges that he faced in doing so, and how it works under the hood. Preamble Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data infrastructure When you’re ready to launch your next project you’ll

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8 Key Facts You Should know if You are a HR Professional

U-Next

Two of the most common reasons why people think they can be great HR professionals are either they are very organized and systematic or they have good people skills. But these two qualities alone are not enough for anyone to make it big in their career in human resource management. The two attributes can land them jobs but to move up the ladder, they definitely need some qualities that will set them apart from other employees.

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Pattern Recognition: ‘Fake news’ and other Machine Learning use cases

Cloudera

Here’s a puzzle for you: 3, 1, 2, 0, 1, -1, ? 240, 48, 12, 4, 2, ? 2, 5, 11, 17, 23, 31, ? Find the pattern? . You may end up scratching your head a bit, but many of you will figure it out, without even pulling out a calculator. We humans are pretty good at pattern detection. And, we often use some form of pattern detection in our daily lives to help us solve problems or predict our next-best course of action.

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AngularConnect 2017

Zalando Engineering

Highlights and Takeaways from Europe's Largest Angular Conference Just a week after Angular Version 5 was released , I had the pleasure to attend AngularConnect 2017. AngularConnect is Europe's largest Angular conference. It is a multi-track conference so I could not attend all the sessions, but the talks I saw were amazing and offered great content.

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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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5 Ways You Can Reduce Attrition Using HR Analytics

U-Next

One of the major misconceptions revolving around the human resource department is that it’s one of the most chilled out departments in the entire organization. Most people (I know you do too) think that the folks at HR have an easy life and that their primary responsibilities include organizing fun activities, team lunches, secret Santa games and more.

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How Workforce Analysis will Change Your Life as an HR Manager

U-Next

Every plan and forecast needs a basis – a basis on which the plans will be estimated and discussed for efficiency and execution. You have to consider several factors and criteria to explore the possibilities of executing your plan and this requires a lot of data. By implementing data analysis techniques into workforce management and HR job processes, you can now analyze many aspects of your organization including staffing, retrenchment management, job satisfaction levels of employees and more.

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The Beginner’s Guide to HR Analytics and Data Powered Talent Management

U-Next

When Chandler said he was into data reconfiguration and stuff, he passed it off as dull and boring. But the fact is that data has always been crucial to mankind in business operations since then and even before. Today, data has become a key ingredient to the successful operations of many companies, businesses, and startups. As more organizations wake up to the inevitability of data, this is the time businesses also pressurize one of the core departments of any business – the HR – to implement da

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Surviving Data Loss

Zalando Engineering

Backing up Apache Kafka and Zookeeper to S3 What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, and wicked fast. It runs in production in many companies. Backups are important with any kind of data. Apache Kafka lowers this risk of data loss with replication across brokers.

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Three Ways Marketers Can Reach Data Nirvana

Cloudera

Data-driven marketing is the new black. As marketers uncover the magnitude of value they can derive from the data at their disposal, they will be faced with a new set of data management-related challenges that can either make or break their quest. IDC predicts that 163 zettabytes of data will be generated by 2025, uncovering a new world of consumer insights and business possibilities.

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Plotting the data-driven journey

Cloudera

“Becoming data-driven is a multi-year journey, not a simple implementation.” It’s one of the first things we tell our customers. Acquiring and using data in a way that simply wasn’t possible up until very recently, requires a huge cultural shift. It’s far more than just technology. Last year our CTO and co-founder, Amr Awadallah suggested in The Malaysian Digest that we may be in the early stages of a multi-decade revolution.

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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.