Idempotence is an important characteristic of many systems, including Fivetran. Learn what it means.

It is hard to believe if you have had previous experience with setting up, sizing, and deploying a distributed search engine service that this is possible. Imagine how many times IT has lost valuable time spending hours trying to understand Apache Solr application requirements and map them into how to best size and deploy the Solr service. Time that is lost to Line of Business as well.

Live data-streaming offers businesses exciting new opportunities to transform the way they operate, leveraging real-time insights to drive better decision making and enhance operational efficiency. To find out more about how streaming data might impact the financial services sector I sat down for a chat with Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Head of Product Marketing in Cloudera’s Data-in-Motion Business Unit.

The way that people do business in Japan has radically changed as a result of COVID-19. Historically, the Japanese have been very much about face to face relationship selling where you establish relationships and build trust but now everything has to be done remotely or online. Like everyone else, the Japanese are really keen to keep doing business so they've actually embraced the remote way of doing things which has been quite interesting to watch and had some unexpected benefits.

Data scientists today have to choose between a massive toolbox where every item has its pros and cons. We love the simplicity of Python tools like pandas and Scikit-learn, the operation-readiness of Kubernetes, and the scalability of Spark and Hadoop, so we just use all of them. What happens? Data scientists explore data using pandas, then data engineers use Spark to recode the same logic to scale or with live streams or operational databases.