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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. A sizable fraction of the jobs are much larger.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

All Things Distributed

(previously known as Emdeon) uses Amazon SNS to handle millions of confidential client transactions daily to process claims and pharmacy requests serving over 340K physicians and 60K pharmacies in full compliance with healthcare industry regulations. . Seamless ingestion of large volumes of sensed data.

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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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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

It adopted Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR and AWS Lambda to power its data warehouse, big data, and data science applications, supporting the development of product features at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. For more customer case studies, see All AWS Customer Stories. Rapid time to market.

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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. Maximise compute performance with Azure SQL Data Warehouse – More JRJ on Azure DW.

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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.