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What defines the modern data stack and why you should care

When I was working at Google back in the mid 2000’s, we dealt with tens of billions of ad impressions a day, trained several machine learning models on years worth of historic data, and used frequently-updated models in ranking ads. The whole system was an amazing feat of engineering and there was no system out there that was even close to handling this much data. It took us years and hundreds of engineers to make this happen, today, the same scale can be achieved in any enterprise.

Is Voice of the Customer (VoC) relevant in 2023?

Every so often, different advocates across organizations ignore the Voice of the Customer. This may be due to changes in business priorities, redistribution of resources, focus on new trends, or that they clear a profit regardless. This brings the value of the customer's voice into question: should we still allocate time and effort towards listening to customers when following new trends is the norm? ‍ The short answer is a resounding yes.

An Introduction to Virtual Machines: A Technical Overview

Today’s businesses need flexible technologies that let them adapt to emerging trends as quickly as possible. Many have embraced digital transformation as an adaptive strategy that can improve everything from DevOps to security. Virtual machines can also play critical roles in digital transformation and in making your organization’s technology more nimble.

Data & Traffic Are Key to Kubernetes Preview Environments

Preview environments are temporary environments where developers can test code changes before deploying them to production, also called ephemeral environments, they’re temporary and should be discarded after testing changes. Carrying out tests using accurate data is a major challenge when creating and destroying environments. Put differently, you need realistic data and traffic in the preview environment to reflect the performance of code changes in production.

Web Scraping in Node.js using Puppeteer

In this digital era, data plays a vital role in every process. From sales to machine learning, the functionality of every process is data-centric. Various types of data namely text, image, audio, and video are used depending on the process. Collecting these types of data from various resources for a particular process is called data collection. Nowadays data collection is done via the internet manually or programmatically depending upon the process.