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Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

DZone

Optimizing Data Input Make Use of Data Forma t In most cases, the data being processed is stored in a columnar format. While this format may not be ideal when you only need to retrieve a few rows from a large partition, it truly excels in analytical use cases.

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DataCentral: Uber’s Big Data Observability and Chargeback Platform

Uber Engineering

Discover real-time query analytics and governance with DataCentral: Uber’s big data observability powerhouse, tackling millions of queries in petabyte-scale environments.

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What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation

Dynatrace

In what follows, we define software automation as well as software analytics and outline their importance. What is software analytics? This involves big data analytics and applying advanced AI and machine learning techniques, such as causal AI. We also discuss the role of AI for IT operations (AIOps) and more.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. Towards Unified Big Data Processing. Elmagarmid, Data Streams Models and Algorithms. Marz, “Big Data Lambda Architecture”. Apache Spark [10]. References.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

DZone

Built on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a suite of features for big data analytics. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Blob Storage's capabilities are combined in Data Lake Storage Gen2.

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Snowflake Workload Optimization

DZone

In the era of big data, efficient data management and query performance are critical for organizations that want to get the best operational performance from their data investments.

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