Click to learn more about author Drew Horn. This is part one of a three-part series on introducing and building test automation into your application development and deployment pipeline. In order to move more quickly and efficiently – while simultaneously saving on costs – many companies are starting to embrace test automation. In fact, in […]
Have Your Batch Updates Become Unmanageable?
Click to learn more about author Richard Mohrmann. Look, I’m telling you this as a friend. Seriously, it’s time to let go of your batch updates. It’s not a criticism; no one is at fault. It’s just that it’s time to move on. Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Your vendors and other providers send […]
Modeling Sets of Data
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Remember? People of my age were taught set algebra at high-school (in my case in the late seventies). Today it is elementary school stuff. And it is indeed a useful tool with applications in many real-life situations. Why did Set Algebra not Become More Popular? In retrospect, […]
Data Orchestration, Like a Symphony Without Sound
Click to learn more about author Greg Nist. When I think about data orchestration, I always reflect on the key root word: orchestra. I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to watch a live symphony several times. I always leave amazed at the complexity and diversity of the moving parts and how they are seamlessly integrated, governed […]
Nowcasting Chicago Crime with R
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. In my many years as a data scientist, I’ve spent more time doing forecast work than any other type of predictive modeling. Often as not, the work’s involved forecasting demand for an organization’s many products/lines of business a year or more out based on five or more […]
Benchmarking Hadoop Performance: On-Premises S3-Compatible Storage Keeps Pace with HDFS
Click to learn more about authors Gary Ogasawara and Tatsuya Kawano. When deploying Hadoop, scaling storage can be difficult and costly because the storage and compute are co-located on the same hardware nodes. By implementing the storage layer using S3-compatible storage software and using an S3 connector instead of HDFS, it’s possible to separate storage […]
Overcoming the Top Barriers to Data Encryption
Click to learn more about author Jeff Harrell. We’ve entered an age where the conveniences of widespread connectivity, the cloud, and cheap, easily accessible storage have put us at more risk than ever of getting breached. At the same time, malicious actors have become more sophisticated, resourceful, and persistent – when data does fall into […]
Best Practices for Managing Blockchain Databases on Popular Cloud Platforms
Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. Blockchain technology is an important part of the modern development industry, with more and more developers of all stripes looking to utilize its unique properties. But for all of its potential, it still has to find a way to fit into existing channels and work with the […]
An Alternative View of Stock Market Returns
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. Last week wasn’t a good one economically for the POTUS. February jobs numbers were much lower than anticipated; the balance of trade deficit ballooned to its highest level in a generation even as the president doubled down on purported deficit-busting tariffs; the budget deficit skied to record […]
The Most In-Demand Big Data Skills and for IT and Data Professionals
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. The World Wide Web has grown to include more than 1.8 billion websites. Of these, about 200 million or less are active. With each passing day, thousands of new sites are added to the mix to intensify the already cutthroat competition. 2017 was a very productive […]