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Another Tectonic Shift: The Cloud Disrupts Traditional BI Architectures

May 08, 2017

Cloud deployment and distributed computing concepts are challenging the assumptions built into the architecture of most BI tools. The shift occurring in the technology underpinnings of the BI market is still at an early stage, but the direction is obvious: away from client-server models and toward distributed computing. The historic mindset of BI vendors is built around core assumptions of...Go To Article

Ten top languages for crunching Big Data

Apr 26, 2017

Guest blog post by Bernard Marr With an ever-growing number of businesses turning to Big Data and analytics to generate insights, there is a greater need than ever for people with the technical skills to apply analytics to real-world problems. Computer programming is still at the core of the skillset needed to create algorithms that can crunch through whatever structured...Go To Article

 

Turning Big Data into a Competitive Asset for CSPs

Jun 12, 2017

The age of big data demands that providers look beyond the box to the bigger picture of software defined architecture.

Five Spark SQL Utility Functions to Extract and Explore Complex Data Types

Jun 12, 2017

Tutorial on how to do ETL on data from Nest and IoT Devices.

Who do you blame when good coders do bad things

Jun 09, 2017

A programming error can’t be laughed off as a youthful indiscretion and there may not be time to teach the moment when you’re busy trying to save your entire business.

10th Spark Summit Sets Another Record of Attendance

Jun 09, 2017

A selected collage of highlights from Databricks’ speakers at our 10th Spark Summit.

Databricks Serverless: Next Generation Resource Management for Apache Spark

Jun 07, 2017

IT teams constantly struggle to find a way to allocate big data infrastructure.

Making Apache Spark the Fastest Open Source Streaming Engine

Jun 06, 2017

How to make it easy to build end-to-end streaming applications by exposing a single API to write streaming queries as you would write batch queries.

A Vision for Making Deep Learning Simple

Jun 06, 2017

Engineers at Silicon Valley tech companies could analyze the entire Internet.

A Vision for Making Deep Learning Simple

Jun 06, 2017

From Machine Learning Practitioners to Business Analysts.

Data Science Skills Needed in a Big Data World

Jun 05, 2017

Data science skills fall into three broad skill areas.

Sharing Knowledge with the Community in a Preview of Apache Spark: The Definitive Guide

Jun 05, 2017

Hundreds of contributors working collectively have made Spark an amazing piece of the technology.

Why Andy Rubin decided to have another go at smartphones

May 31, 2017

Rubin created Essential because he saw a need for a mobile company that brought more choice to the consumer

CoreOS chief decries cloud lock-in

May 31, 2017

CoreOS is trying to decouple cloud services from hosting

Working with Nested Data Using Higher Order Functions in SQL on Databricks

May 24, 2017

Nested data types offer Databricks customers and Apache Spark users powerful ways to manipulate structured data

Databricks Runtime 3.0 Beta Delivers Cloud Optimized Apache Spark

May 24, 2017

We are also making the beta of Databricks Runtime 3.0-that includes the latest release candidate build of Apache Spark 2.2

On-Demand Webinar and FAQ: Deep Learning and Apache Spark: Workflows and Best Practices

May 23, 2017

Deep Learning and Apache Spark is focused on issues that are common to deep learning frameworks when running on an Apache Spark cluster

Announcing: Distributed Deep Learning QSS

May 23, 2017

MapR Distributed Deep Learning QSS - a data science-led product that enables the training of complex deep learning algorithms

Event-time Aggregation and Watermarking in Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming

May 08, 2017

This is the fourth post in a multi-part series about how you can perform complex streaming analytics using Apache Spark

Kafka Streams – Part 2

May 07, 2017

Branch creates multiple branches from a single stream

Don’t waste your energy on Docker, it says here – wait, that can’t be right…

May 05, 2017

Energy consumption is power in watts multiplied by the time required to complete the job

Modern BI With SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0

May 01, 2017

Lumira was introduced to help extend the power of traditional business intelligence with new “modern BI” capabilities

Events

AWS re:Invent

Nov 28, 2022 Las Vegas, NV

Join us again this year in Las Vegas for our biggest, most comprehensive, and most vibrant event in cloud computing.

AI & Big Data Expo 2022

Oct 05, 2022 Santa Clara, CA

This technology event is for the ambitious enterprise technology professional, seeking to explore the latest innovations, implementations and strategies to drive businesses forward.

Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit

Oct 04, 2022 Austin, TX

Join the first-ever data streaming industry event at Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit. You’ll be able to immerse yourself in all things real-time data with peers.

O’Reilly Open Source Convention

May 16, 2016 Austin

OSCON covers FLOSS in its entirety. Not just one language, tool, or philosophy, but all the moving parts integrated and working together.

99U 2016

May 05, 2016 New York

The goal of the 99U Conference is to shift the focus from idea generation to idea execution. Providing road-tested insights

Consensus 2016: Making Blockchain Real

May 02, 2016 New York

Consensus 2016 will define what is “real” in blockchain technology and focus on how to mainstream real-world applications for consumers.