Whether you stopped by to visit us in person at AWS re:Invent last week or you planned on it but didn’t get a chance, here are some of the most important key points and takeaways.
In today’s post, we will be covering the Elixir library named Broadway. This library is maintained by the kind folks at Plataformatec and allows us to create highly concurrent data processing pipelines with relative ease. After an overview of how Broadway works and when to use it, we’ll dive into a sample project where we’ll leverage Broadway to fetch temperature data from https://openweathermap.org/ in order to find the coldest city on earth.
Looking forward to 2020, there are five things I think we’ll see happen more. We’ve seen a ton of consolidation this year and we’ll see more next year. There are about 75 front-end vendors in the BI space and the reality is that they can’t all survive in the market as it is today. Salesforce purchased Tableau recently and a lot of smaller vendors have already been bought.
As we approach the end of the year, I am reflecting on the fascinating evolution of how technology solves business problems. Since 2016, I have seen microservices drive buying decisions for many large enterprises. At the same time, open source adoption has been gaining ground from its emergence as a grassroots movement in the 90s to an industry-defining standard, driven by the rise of developers as strategic influencers.
There is TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell during which Gladwell discusses the fact that we were actually better off when we only had two kinds of spaghetti sauce to choose from. Today, we stand in supermarket aisles in confusion amid so much more choice.
Unsurprisingly, Modern data apps have become crucial across all areas of the financial industry, with apps for fraud detection, claims processing and compliance amongst others playing a business critical role. Unravel has been deployed by several of the world’s largest financial services organizations to ensure these critical apps perform reliably at all times.
Advancements in technology improve the lives of people and save time and money for organizations year after year and there is no reason that the next year, 2020 will be any different. When new techniques and technologies come to the fore, people are hesitant to use them at first but once they become popular and prove to be useful and time-saving, people start using them more. And when the adoption of such techniques and technologies become widespread, they tend to become trends.
