There are two big gaps in the Apache Kafka project when we think of operating a cluster. The first is monitoring the cluster efficiently and the second is managing failures and changes in the cluster. There are no solutions for these inside the Kafka project but there are many good 3rd party tools for both problems. Cruise Control is one of the earliest open source tools to provide a solution for the failure management problem but lately for the monitoring problem as well.

Online stores have been on a rise for the past decade, and if the massive success of Amazon has taught us anything, it is that superior design and in-store experience can put you on that high throne. Small and big brands that are launching online stores strive to build visual experiences that are unprecedented and likely to enthrall a wider audience. Plus, they spend a lot in ensuring that the in-store experience is memorable and user-friendly.

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In the age of a new normal, remote monitoring and control have become a necessity across the enterprise. The prominence of IoT extends beyond its traditional purpose of sense and integration, evolving to complete end-to-end Enterprise Digital applications that represent physical assets, processes, and environment as a replica in a virtual representation.

Sustainability has rapidly become front and center for companies in virtually all industries, including manufacturing. Regulatory pressures, climate conditions, and heightened consumer and investor awareness are creating new urgency for manufacturers to not only focus more on sustainability initiatives, but to ensure long-term and measurable change.

Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations that promote data sharing will outperform their peers on most business value metrics. According to Debra Logan, Gartner’s Research Vice President, “Data sharing is the way to optimize higher quality data and more robust data and analytics to solve business challenges and goals.” Given these numbers, it is clear that businesses will need to embrace application software integration as a core business strategy.

MongoDB vs DynamoDB: How do you choose between them? Whether you are a two-man team bootstrapping a proof of concept or an established one battling with high throughput and heavy load; this post can serve as a guidepost in your decision process. Before going into the details, a brief history lesson on how these technologies emerged is pertinent; you must understand the optimal conditions for running these systems and how they operate in the wild before making an informed choice.

According to Gartner, leading organizations in every industry are wielding data and analytics as competitive weapons. Companies that leverage data as a competitive differentiator will stand the best chance of acting faster on opportunities and responding to threats in a competitive marketplace. The problem is that most companies aren’t aware of the value of their data. As a result, they aren’t leveraging the full potential of their data to make informed decisions.

Shared Data Experience (SDX) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) enables centralized data access control and audit for workloads in the Enterprise Data Cloud. The public cloud (CDP-PC) editions default to using cloud storage (S3 for AWS, ADLS-gen2 for Azure). This introduces new challenges around managing data access across teams and individual users. To solve these challenges for S3 and ADLS-gen2, Cloudera has introduced a new service — the Ranger Authorization Service (RAZ).