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Considerations when moving your Apache Kafka to the cloud

Are you running your organization's Apache Kafka on-premise? If you are and you’re still reading this article, it’s more than likely that Kafka is or will be a keystone of your data infrastructure. But it’s also likely your teams are tired of the cost and complexity required to scale it, meaning your honeymoon with Kafka is coming to an end. So what does the imminent migration mean?

PostgreSQL vs MySQL: Use Cases & Attributes To Help You Choose

Choosing whether to go with PostgreSQL or MySQL depends on your needs as they are both great databases to use under different circumstances. In this article we will run through a few of the top reasons and use cases to help you choose between these choices for database creation. Note: As a matter of fact, MySQL is so popular it became part of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) used for building many web servers.

Snowflake and Saturn Cloud Partner to Bring 100x Faster Data Science to Millions of Python Users

Snowflake and Saturn Cloud are thrilled to announce our partnership to provide the fastest data science and machine learning (ML) platform. Snowflake’s Data Cloud comprises a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Saturn Cloud’s platform provides lightning-fast data science. Combined, our solutions enable customers to maximize their ML and data science initiatives.

What Is Document Review?

In the context of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), document review makes it easier for an organization to curate, govern, and manage the lifecycle of digital artifacts beyond source code. These include documentation, spreadsheets, presentations, image flies, system and architectural images, and other files related to software projects. It is a discipline often practiced in regulated industries, or where quality certification is a requirement.

How to Improve your WordPress Performance Score

We managed to get a 99/100 Performance Score with Google Lighthouse, check the details below how we did it. Read more on how to run a Google Lighthouse audit. First of all, you’ll need to install a list of WordPress plugins, activate and configure them. This will manage your JS, CSS assets and minify the HTML for all pages. JavaScript Options We’ve only ticked the two options here: CSS Options HTML Options Misc Options 2.

2020 in Review: A Recap of Appian Europe's Top 10 Moments

In retrospect, 2020 was a year of unprecedented change. Noone could have foreseen what the last 12 months would bring. But in Europe and the Middle East, we’ve adapted to make the most of the situation, building solutions to help our customers keep their customers and staff safe and engaged. Here’s a recap of our top 10 moments from a year like no other.

Building a Machine Learning Application With Cloudera Data Science Workbench And Operational Database, Part 1: The Set-Up & Basics

Introduction Python is used extensively among Data Engineers and Data Scientists to solve all sorts of problems from ETL/ELT pipelines to building machine learning models. Apache HBase is an effective data storage system for many workflows but accessing this data specifically through Python can be a struggle. For data professionals that want to make use of data stored in HBase the recent upstream project “hbase-connectors” can be used with PySpark for basic operations.

A Three-Step Plan to Innovate Hadoop for the Cloud

How large is your Hadoop data lake? 500 terabytes? A petabyte? Even more? And it is certainly growing, bit by bit, day after day. What began as inexpensive big data infrastructure now demands ever more expenditures on storage and servers while becoming increasingly unwieldy and expensive to manage. Such rapacity makes it ever harder to realize a proper return on investment from that Hadoop infrastructure.

2021 Trends - How You Ranked Them

On December 8th, it was time for the annual “State of the Union” from Qlik, with regards to BI & Data Trends. Overwhelmingly, attendance was in the many thousands, and we received thousands of questions. To get that type of engagement in a year where people have done nothing but virtual conferences is amazing. One person put it to me like this: “I just joined in on your webinar on the top data and analytics trends and it was truly fantastic.