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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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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods.

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RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

The focus on bringing various organizational teams together—such as development, business, and security teams — makes sense as observability data, security data, and business event data coalesce in these cloud-native environments. As organizations develop new applications, vulnerabilities will continue to emerge.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

The immense growth of Kubernetes presents new security challenges in runtime and increased complexity in hardening CI/CD pipelines in development. Big data : To store, search, and analyze large datasets, 32% of organizations use Elasticsearch. The data covers the period of January 2021 through September 2022.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. I started working at a local payment processing company after graduation, where I built survival models to calculate lifetime value and experimented with them on our brand new big data stack.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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