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Generally Accepted Data Modeling Principles

What can data modelers learn from accountants? Accounting is a solidly established practice that the world cannot live without. One of the established guidelines for accountants is called GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the US), and there are similar international setups. You might guess these standards are about rules, but actually, accounting is much […]

How to Optimize Kafka Deployments Using Apache ZooKeeper

Click to learn more about author Zeke Dean. True to its name, Apache ZooKeeper corrals the proverbial zoo of otherwise unruly elements within an Apache Kafka cluster. The open-source ZooKeeper project delivers a centralized way of coordinating Kafka’s brokers and cluster topology, serving as a file system that ensures the consistency of Kafka configuration information. […]

Best Practices for Consolidating Data

Click to learn more about author Joe deBuzna. Comparing your Data Across Multiple Source and Targets When you have data stored in multiple applications and want to consolidate it into a central Data Warehouse or Data Lake, you need to make sure the data in the source and the target remain consistent. But while consolidating data […]