In our last blog, we talked about developing data processing jobs using Apache Beam. This time we are going to talk about one of the most demanded things in modern Big Data world nowadays – processing of Streaming data. The principal difference between Batch and Streaming is the type of input data source. When your data set is limited (even if it’s huge in terms of size) and it is not being updated along the time of processing, then you would likely use a batching pipeline.
Makeover Monday is a global initiative started by Tableau to encourage people to build visualizations. It involves releasing a new dataset each week and letting people reimagine the way it is visualized. It’s a really interesting experience and anyone can participate.
Log management solutions play a crucial role in an enterprise's layered security framework— without them, firms have little visibility into the actions and events occurring inside their infrastructures that could either lead to data breaches or signify a security compromise in progress. Splunk is the “Google for log files” heavyset enterprise tool that was the first log analysis software and has been the market leader ever since.
If you could have analytics everywhere, there would be an abundance of insights, which could lead to a boom in decision making on nearly every level, regardless of the situation or user. This is the notion behind the importance of embedded analytics.
So far, our journey on using Apache Spark with Talend has been a fun and exciting one. The first three posts on my series provided an overview of how Talend works with Apache Spark, some similarities between Talend and Spark Submit, the configuration options available for Spark jobs in Talend and how to tune Spark jobs for performance. If you haven’t already read them you should do so before getting started here.
The third edition of Yellowfin Bytes brings you an exciting inclusion made to the Data Transformation module. Users have been exploring Yellowfin’s very own lite version of an ETL tool in the form of this module, ever since its introduction in Yellowfin 7.4 last year. We have since been enhancing this functionality by adding new steps, calculations, configurations, and more.
