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Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design

Uber Engineering

Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility?

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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. This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs.

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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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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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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. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

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What is ITOps? Why IT operations is more crucial than ever in a multicloud world

Dynatrace

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

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