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Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

DZone

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. Spark takes full advantage of this storage property by exclusively reading the columns that are involved in subsequent computations.

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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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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. The pipelines can be stateful and the engine’s middleware should provide a persistent storage to enable state checkpointing. Towards Unified Big Data Processing.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix’s unique work culture and petabyte-scale data problems are what drew me to Netflix. During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics.

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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 Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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Advancing Application Performance with NVMe Storage, Part 3

DZone

NVMe Storage Use Cases. NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. There are several AI/ML focused use cases to highlight.

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Advancing Application Performance with NVMe Storage, Part 1

DZone

With big data on the rise and data algorithms advancing, the ways in which technology has been applied to real-world challenges have grown more automated and autonomous. Financial analysis with real-time analytics is used for predicting investments and drives the FinTech industry's needs for high-performance computing.