Sat.Jun 15, 2019 - Fri.Jun 21, 2019

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Four Reasons Why Upgrading to Vantage is Worth It

Teradata

Running older Teradata analytics software versions may not support the latest innovations of Vantage and could cost you more than upgrading. Learn more.

IT 75
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Should you have an ETL window in your Modern Data Warehouse?

Advancing Analytics: Data Engineering

Ah the ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) Window, the schedule by which the Business Intelligence developer sets their clock, the nail-biting nightly period during which the on-call support hopes their phone won’t ring. It’s a cornerstone of the data warehousing approach… and we shouldn’t have one. There, I said it. Hear me out – back in the on-premises days we had data loading processes that connect directly to our source system databases and perform huge data extract queries as the start of one long

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Netflix Studio Hack Day?—?May 2019

Netflix Tech

Netflix Studio Hack Day ?—?May 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Marlee Tart Hack Days are a big deal at Netflix. They’re a chance to bring together employees from all our different disciplines to explore new ideas and experiment with emerging technologies. For the most recent hack day, we channeled our creative energy towards our studio efforts.

Java 15
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Maintaining Your Data Lake At Scale With Spark

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Building and maintaining a data lake is a choose your own adventure of tools, services, and evolving best practices. The flexibility and freedom that data lakes provide allows for generating significant value, but it can also lead to anti-patterns and inconsistent quality in your analytics. Delta Lake is an open source, opinionated framework built on top of Spark for interacting with and maintaining data lake platforms that incorporates the lessons learned at DataBricks from countless cu

Data Lake 100
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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.

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AI for Industrials: Why is it different?

Teradata

Cheryl Wiebe examines the challenges of using AI in industrial situations.

IT 75
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Building a Scalable Search Architecture

Confluent

Software projects of all sizes and complexities have a common challenge: building a scalable solution for search. Who has never seen an application use RDBMS SQL statements to run searches? You might be wondering, is this a good solution? As the databases professor at my university used to say, it depends. Using SQL to run your search might be enough for your use case, but as your project requirements grow and more advanced features are needed—for example, enabling synonyms, multilingual search,