Read more about author Bassam Chahine. When setting up an Apache Cassandra table schema and anticipating how you’ll use the table, it’s a best practice to simultaneously formulate a thoughtful compaction strategy. While a Cassandra table’s compaction strategy can be adjusted after its creation, doing so invites costly cluster performance penalties because Cassandra will need to rewrite all of that table’s data. Taking the right approach to compactions – and doing so…

Read more about author Martin Owen. How organizations manage their data directly impacts their success or failure. The correlation between data analytics and intelligence to competitive advantage and growth has led to heavy investments in those technologies throughout the last decade. So, if you consider that content is the consumable form of data, then it follows that the era of big data has now given way to the era of…

Read more about author Victor DeMarines. Those who use your software found it, love it, and want to use it. Unfortunately, some people use your software without paying for it. Software piracy – the use of software that’s been configured or tampered with to remove or bypass license enforcement – happens. So does overuse (use of software exceeding the limits of the license) and misuse (intentional configuration of the software to…

Read more about author Swapnil Srivastava. Many data scientists and analytics consultants complain they were hired to be a part of advanced analytics teams at corporations, but all they do is data analysis or reporting work. The bigger problem here is that the personnel leading these teams genuinely believe their problem statements are advanced in nature. And rightly so – as accessing and engineering data and reporting high-quality insights are…