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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads. Query Optimization.

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

I bring my breadth of big data tools and technologies while Julie has been building statistical models for the past decade. A lot of my learning and training was self-guided until 2016, when a manager at my last company took a chance on me and helped me make the rare transfer from a role in HR to Data Science.

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

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Cloud-Based Testing – A tester’s perspective

Testsigma

May pose security issues, since the data is handed over to a third party during testing. Requires very good internet connectivity. No internet connectivity is required for testing since it is executed locally. Examples are DevOps, AWS, Big Data, Testing as Service, testing environments.

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How social forces could drive blockchain demand

O'Reilly

Our world is now 30 years into its internet-driven, digital-centric life. Power has become concentrated in the hands of a few internet giants, who now wield undue influence. Our digital lives generate heaps of data that propagate beyond our intent and control. More equitable sharing of value. Where does change begin?

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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. I enabled Chrome.

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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. We also use Python to detect sensitive data using Lanius.