Formed in 2016, Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) is the world’s largest publicly quoted sports betting and gaming company, bringing “excitement to life” for five million customers worldwide. The merger of Paddy Power and Betfair in 2016 created an additional data challenge for an already highly data-driven organization. The merged company had to bring together 70TB of data, from dozens of sources, into an integrated platform.
Recently I found myself in a predicament that many of you can relate to, trying to update an aging application that has become too difficult to manage and too costly to continue operating. As we started to talk about what to do, we concluded it was time to start decomposing that application into smaller more manageable pieces.
Bugfender 2.0 is Live: Over the past year we’ve been hard at work developing Bugfender 2.0, and we’re proud to announce it’s now live. To get started, simply log into your Bugfender account!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerged as a hot topic in 2017. Although scientists have been working on the technology and heralding its numerous anticipated benefits for more than four decades, it’s only in the past few years that society’s AI dreams have come to fruition.
Where is AI going and how we can work with it in the future of BI?
Open source software (OSS) just celebrated its 20th anniversary and not only does the community have a lot of milestones to celebrate, but also a lot to which they can look forward! OSS continues to disrupt the status quo in groundbreaking ways, but it’s also becoming increasingly mainstream. Thus, if you’re an IT leader of any-sized organization, you should be thinking about and planning for how to incorporate OSS into your infrastructure.
In 1998, Netscape decided to release their source code in an effort to attract new users to their product and new developers who could easily integrate applications with the browser. At the same time, there seemed to be a groundswell around a culture of open and collaborative development, with legacy software companies beginning to acknowledge Linux and open source software (OSS) as a legitimate option for enterprise solutions.
Visual Studio Team Services is a one-stop-shop for managing source code, custom packages, agile workflow, and continuous integration. Having recently released our VSTS extension for Ghost Inspector, I thought it would be a fun idea to test and deploy an app with a Microsoft toolchain, namely Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft Azure, and Ghost Inspector using our new extension.
2018 is the year of the cloud, and as more and more companies move to cloud technologies it is important to realize how your business can best utilize the cloud. One of the biggest issues enterprises are having today, is moving their data from their on-premise databases to their cloud data storage. This can be a long, and tedious process if you don’t have the correct tools. Luckily, Talend is here to help!
Cloud computing in the form we understand today started around 10 years ago, with the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This was the first commercially viable option for businesses to store data in the cloud rather than on-premise and acted as a shared service for anyone connecting to the platform.
