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How to Transition From Excel Reports to Business Intelligence Tools

While Excel is great, it can't do everything data analysts need. Read on to learn how to convert your Excel data to tools like Power BI and Tableau.

Updated May 28, 2019

by Thomas Spicer

· 17,378 Views · 3 Likes

Running Elasticsearch on Kubernetes

A bit of a cross-over with the Cloud Zone, we explore the structures of both Elasticsearch and Kubernetes, and how to deploy Elasticsearch on K8s.

May 27, 2019

by Itamar Syn-hershko

· 34,634 Views · 8 Likes

HDFS Architecture and Functionality

In this article, we take a deep dive into the file system used by Hadoop called HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System).

May 23, 2019

by Dheeraj Gupta

CORE

· 140,410 Views · 6 Likes

Streaming ML Pipeline for Sentiment Analysis Using Apache APIs: Kafka, Spark, and Drill (Part 2)

Look at an overview of streaming concepts and learn how to ingest Kafka Events with Spark Structured Streaming and enrich events with a machine learning model.

May 22, 2019

by Carol McDonald

· 20,852 Views · 12 Likes

Knowledge Graphs Are the New Black. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: May 2019

This news article gives a lot of information on knowledge graphs.

Updated May 22, 2019

by George Anadiotis

· 16,991 Views · 5 Likes

What Data Analysis Tools Should I Learn to Start a Career as a Data Analyst?

If you're looking to switch careers and get into the data analysis game, read on for a quick overview of the tools and skills you'll need.

May 21, 2019

by Lewis Chou

· 24,044 Views · 10 Likes

Introduction to Message Brokers (Part 2): ActiveMQ vs. Redis Pub/Sub

In this post, we take a look at the pros and cons of ActiveMQ and Redis Pub/Sub and what they help developers do.

May 20, 2019

by Vitaliy Samofal

· 19,452 Views · 10 Likes

Kafka Producer Delivery Semantics

We take a deep dive into the various delivery semantics available for use in Apache Kafka.

Updated May 16, 2019

by Sylvester Daniel

· 28,018 Views · 9 Likes

Streaming ML Pipeline for Sentiment Analysis Using Apache APIs: Kafka, Spark, and Drill (Part 1)

In this first part, we will explore sentiment analysis using Spark machine learning data pipelines.

Updated May 16, 2019

by Carol McDonald

· 27,496 Views · 19 Likes

Blockchain Vs Tangle: Which Is Better?

Let's look at different cryptocurrency platforms and which is the best.

Updated May 10, 2019

by John Ryan

· 20,476 Views · 5 Likes

Protocols and Standards Behind IoT: CoAP, BLE, MQTT, DDS

Here's your guide to IoT protocols and standards.

May 9, 2019

by Martin Lewis

· 14,299 Views · 4 Likes

Introduction to Message Brokers. Part 1: Apache Kafka vs. RabbitMQ

If you're looking for a message broker for your next project, read on to get an overview of to of the most popular open source solutions out there.

May 8, 2019

by Vitaliy Samofal

· 41,284 Views · 30 Likes

Kafka Producer Overview

In this post, we take a look in to producers in Apache Kafka and what they allow devs and data scientists to do.

Updated May 7, 2019

by Sylvester Daniel

· 19,745 Views · 12 Likes

Kafka Technical Overview

In this post, we take a high-level look at the architecture of Apache Kafka, the role ZooKeeper plays, and more.

Updated May 7, 2019

by Sylvester Daniel

· 35,166 Views · 51 Likes

How to Build a Data Pipeline Using Kafka, Spark, and Hive

In this post, we learn how to make a basic data pipeline using these popular Apache frameworks and the Scala language.

May 7, 2019

by Avi Garg

· 30,290 Views · 5 Likes

A Complete Tutorial on the Drools Business Rule Engine

Check out this post for a complete guide to the Drools business rule engine.

May 2, 2019

by Federico Tomassetti

· 22,994 Views · 3 Likes

Optimizing Kafka Streams Applications

Let's see how to optimize Kafka Streams applications.

May 2, 2019

by Bill Bejeck

· 19,548 Views · 5 Likes

Build and Install Hadoop on Windows With Native Binaries

Build your own Hadoop distribution in order to make it run on Windows 7 with this in-depth tutorial.

Updated May 1, 2019

by Gopal Tiwari

· 49,324 Views · 11 Likes

Assessing Cloud Backup Solutions: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud

Take a look at what each of the three leading cloud vendors has to offer for backup and data storage.

May 1, 2019

by Gilad David Maayan

CORE

· 14,290 Views · 2 Likes

Measure document similarity automatically and query them efficiently.

May 1, 2019

by Sibanjan Das

CORE

· 6,817 Views · 4 Likes

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