Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Summary Archaeologists collect and create a variety of data as part of their research and exploration. Open Context is a platform for cleaning, curating, and sharing this data. In this episode Eric Kansa describes how they process, clean, and normalize the data that they host, the challenges that they face with scaling ETL processes which require domain specific knowledge, and how the information contained in connections that they expose is being used for interesting projects.

Digital Media 100

Digital Media Media PostgreSQL Datasets 100

Confluent

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Building a scalable, reliable and performant machine learning (ML) infrastructure is not easy. It takes much more effort than just building an analytic model with Python and your favorite machine learning framework. After all, machine learning with Python requires the use of algorithms that allow computer programs to constantly learn, but building that infrastructure is several levels higher in complexity.

Machine Learning 107

Machine Learning Python Kafka Java 107

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

ATB Financial is Alberta’s largest home grown financial institution, and prides itself on its customer obsession, putting the over 750,000 Albertans at the centre of all that they do. As a result, ATB is constantly transforming in order to ensure it can continue to deliver unparalleled value to Albertans. A key pillar in the transformation journey is focused on robust data operations that can help ATB deliver timely, relevant and delightful service.

Utilities 63

Utilities Big Data Google Cloud Data Analytics 63

Zalando Engineering

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Project Highlights Lionel Montrieux brought Nakadi to FOSDEM 2019. This is one of the largest open source projects released by Zalando. Nakadi is a distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues. It is used in production by over a hundred teams daily and handles over 100 TB of data every day. Try out Nakadi !

PostgreSQL 40

PostgreSQL Kafka Project Technology 40

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Database

Teradata

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Kevin Lewis explains the role of chief of data officer.

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Data 56

Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

By Kylee Peña, Chris Clark, and Mike Whipple Kylee’s parents after their wedding in 1978. I?—?Kylee?—?have two photos from my parents’ wedding. Just two. This year they celebrated 40 years of marriage, so both photos were shot on film. Both capture a joy and awkwardness that come with young weddings. They’re fresh and full of life, candid captures from another era.

Technology 101

Technology Electronics Management Systems 101

Zalando Engineering

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Open Source Participation When you as a Zalando employee engage in open source communities as part of your work, you will interact with the wider open source communities outside Zalando - this is generally a good experience and collaborating with many different types of developers with different backgrounds is generally a positive input to your personal development.

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Coding Project Accessible Accessibility 40

Teradata

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Teradata was recently named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics.

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IT Data Management Management Data 40

Rockset

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Aggregator Leaf Tailer (ALT) is the data architecture favored by web-scale companies, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, for its efficiency and scalability. In this blog post, I will describe the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture and its advantages for low-latency data processing and analytics. When we started Rockset , we set out to implement a real-time analytics engine that made the developer's job as simple as possible.

Lambda Architecture 40

Lambda Architecture Architecture MongoDB Kafka 40

Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Engineering to Improve Marketing Effectiveness (Part 3)?—?Scaling Paid Media campaigns This is the third blog of the series on Marketing Technology at Netflix. This blog focuses on the marketing tech systems that are responsible for campaign setup and delivery of our paid media campaigns. The first blog focused on solving for creative development and localization at scale.

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Media Engineering Metadata Java 54

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

Certification

Zalando Engineering

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Measuring the incremental effect of online marketing to optimize advertising investment One of the core values at Zalando is to be Customer Obsessed , and this applies to online marketing as well. For many Zalando customers, their experience starts with a catchy ad. Therefore, in Personalized Marketing , our mission is to reach customers with a personalized message and suggest products tailored to their needs or wants.

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Scala AWS Data Lake Software Engineer 40