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Experiences with approximating queries in Microsoft’s production big-data clusters

The Morning Paper

Experiences with approximating queries in Microsoft’s production big-data clusters Kandula et al., I’ve been excited about the potential for approximate query processing in analytic clusters for some time, and this paper describes its use at scale in production. VLDB’19. Approximate query support.

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Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining

Highly Scalable

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Why test data management is more important than you think

Testsigma

IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub website cited a case study, where a US insurance company was estimating 15% of their testing efforts to be just test data collection for the backend system and the frontend system. The test data management for the company had become a big problem and had to be solved.

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Microsoft Engineering loves SQLBits

SQL Server According to Bob

Best practices on Building a Big Data Analytics Solution – Michael Rys. If you want to learn about Azure Data Lake, there is no one better. Adaptive query processing in SQL databases – Bob Ward and Conor Cunningham. Azure Cosmos DB: design patterns and case studies – Andrew Liu.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Although there are many books on data mining in general and its applications to marketing and customer relationship management in particular [BE11, AS14, PR13 etc.], Data mining offers a variety of techniques for nonparametric modeling that helps to create flexible and practical models.

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40+ Best Web Development Blogs of 2018

KeyCDN

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. It’s awesome for discovering how grid systems, CSS animation, Big Data, etc all play roles in real-world web design. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants.