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Tag: big data applications

  • Apache Spark: Powering applications on-premise and in the cloud

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] As organizations shift their focus toward building analytic applications, many are relying on components from the Apache Spark ecosystem. I began pointing this out in advance…

  • Best Practices for Optimizing Infrastructure Performance and Budget

    I’ll be hosting a webcast next week – featuring Alex Bordei – on a topic that should be of interest to anyone building data applications and data products: When harnessed correctly, hardware can generate performance improvements…

  • Verticalized Big Data solutions

    General-purpose platforms can come across as hammers in search of nails [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] As much as I love talking about general-purpose big data platforms and…

  • Surfacing anomalies and patterns in Machine Data

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] I’ve been noticing that many interesting big data systems are coming out of IT operations. These are systems that go beyond the standard “capture/measure, display…