Barclays Data Scientist Gianmario Spacagna and Harry Powell, Head of Advanced Analytics, describe how they iteratively process raw data directly from the central data warehouse into Spark and how Tachyon is their key enabling technology.
Let’s talk about graph databases. Some industry watchers claim that they are the fastest-growing type of database. If so, maybe it’s useful to know more about them. So, let's start with the basics: what is a graph database, and what is it useful for?
As you plan your analytics and data architecture on AWS, you may get confused between Redshift and Aurora. Both are advertised to be scalable and performant. Both are supposedly better than incumbents. Both have optically inspired names. So, what’s the difference?
Recently, AWS announced that they’ve added support for triggering AWS Lambda functions into AWS CodePipeline–AWS’ Continuous Delivery service. In this article, I’ll describe how I codified the provisioning of all of the AWS resources in the documentation using CloudFormation.
Learn how to make a HSON API REST service using Elide and Spring Boot in this awesome tutorial. The JSON API is a great specification for developers, and is getting much more popular.
PCI Compliance requires users to change their passwords every 90 days. Luckily, since MySQL version 5.6.6 there’s a password_expired feature which allows one to set a user’s password as expired.
The following page describes some of the best practices of using SQL queries from a performance perspective. We use Oracle as our primary reference but most of the recommendations are applicable to other RDBMS SQL engines as well.
Databases are enabling companies to use data to inform real-time decisions about their business as well as to use predictive analytics to make better informed, real-time decisions.
LogPacker is a log collection, analysis, and transfer service. It has a Go backend. Check out this neat use case in integrating the Go-client with the PayPal API!