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Expert Panel: Challenges with Modern Data Pipelines

Modern data pipelines have become more business-critical than ever. Every company today is a data company, looking to leverage data analytics as a competitive advantage. But the complexity of the modern data stack imposes some significant challenges that are hindering organizations from realizing their goals and realizing the value of data.

Essential Java Skills for Every Developer's Career

First introduced to the world back in 1996, Java today is still very much in demand. Over 35% of programmers worldwide worked in this language in 2021. Moreover, it is firmly among the three most popular programming languages in the TIOBE index. What does it mean for you as a beginner Java developer? It means you’ll have to gain a competitive advantage to advance in your career successfully. Let’s take a look at the essential tech and soft skills you need to perfect.

You Can't Just Buy a Nine

At a former employer, my Vice President of Engineering and Operations had a reputation for his language. He also had a reputation for his deep passion for things like site availability, incidents, downtime, and almost anything related to making sure the company's website was up and running, and especially that the end users were having a good experience using it.

Tackling Cloud Complexity with Standardization at VMware Explore

Cloud complexity is an inevitability. Regardless of where an organization may be on their cloud journey – on-prem, in the public cloud, or managing an expanding hybrid cloud – the reality is managing the enterprise isn’t getting any easier. Demand continues to rise for greater access to more data across the organization to do things like run analytics and machine learning and to automate more processes.

8 Reasons to Build Your Cloud Data Lake on Snowflake

You want to enable analytics, data science, or applications with data so you can answer questions, predict outcomes, discover relationships, or grow your business. But to do any of that, data must be stored in a manner to support these outcomes. This may be a simple decision when supporting a small, well-known use case, but it quickly becomes complicated as you scale the data volume, variety, workloads, and use cases.

4 Ways to Minimize Your Dependencies in Node.js

We all know the joke about how node_modules is the heaviest object in the universe. For example, a project that uses only fastify, knex, typescript, and uuid generates an 83MB node_modules folder! That's huge! And those four packages are far from a complete set for a relatively small back-end. A more realistic size for node_modules is north of 100MB, in some cases reaching 1GB.