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Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

DZone

In today's data-driven world, efficient data processing plays a pivotal role in the success of any project. Apache Spark , a robust open-source data processing framework, has emerged as a game-changer in this domain.

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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 pipelines can be stateful and the engine’s middleware should provide a persistent storage to enable state checkpointing. Interoperability with Hadoop. High performance and mobility.

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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. You can learn more about it from my talk at the Flink forward conference.

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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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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 container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services. Apache Mesos with the Marathon DC/OS is popular for large-scale production clusters running existing workloads on big data systems, such as Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark.