Tag: data engineer
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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…
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5 Fun Facts about HBase that you didn’t know
HBase has made inroads in companies across many industries and countries [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] With HBaseCon right around the corner, I wanted to take stock of one of…
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Bridging the gap between research and implementation
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] One of the most popular offerings at Strata Santa Clara was Hardcore Data Science day. Over the next few weeks we hope to profile some…
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Big Data solutions through the combination of tools
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] As a user who tends to mix-and-match many different tools, not having to deal with configuring and assembling a suite of tools is…
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Data Scientists and Data Engineers like Python and Scala
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] In exchange for getting personalized recommendations many Meetup members declare1 topics that they’re interested in. I recently looked at the topics listed by members of…
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Data Analysis: Just one component of the Data Science workflow
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Judging from articles in the popular press the term data scientist has increasingly come to refer to someone who specializes in data analysis (statistics, machine-learning,…
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It’s getting easier to build Big Data Applications
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Hadoop’s low-cost, scale-out architecture has made it a new platform for data storage. With a storage system in place, the Hadoop community is slowly building…