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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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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 article is based on a research project developed at Grid Dynamics Labs. For example, consider a system that calculates average purchase value in the internet shop for each hour.

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

Dynatrace

Software automation enables digital supply chain stakeholders — such as digital operations, DevSecOps, ITOps, and CloudOps teams — to orchestrate resources across the software development lifecycle to bring innovative, high-quality products and services to market faster. What is software analytics? Digital experience. Business analytics.

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Top 15 Software Testing Trends to Watch Out in 2021

DZone

The introduction of innovative technologies has brought the newest updates in software testing, development, design, and delivery. Nowadays, Big Data tests mainly include data testing, paving the way for the Internet of Things to become the center point. Besides, AI and ML seem to reach a new level.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

I stumbled into data engineering rather than making an intentional career move into the field. I started my career as an application developer with basic familiarity with SQL. I was later hired into my first purely data gig where I was able to deepen my knowledge of big data. What drew you to Netflix?

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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. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. data access, fact logging and feature extraction, model evaluation and publishing).