Across the federal government, agencies are struggling to identify, organize, analyze, and act on troves of data. It’s a problem that leaders are working actively to tackle, but they’re in a race against immeasurable volumes of data that is continuously being generated in perpetuity in stores known and unknown. At the Internal Revenue Service, decades’ worth of data exceeds even the most cutting-edge processing capabilities.
Advertising agencies are faced with the challenge of providing the precision data that marketers require to make better decisions at a time when customers’ digital footprints are rapidly changing. They need to transform customer information and real-time data into actionable insights to inform clients what to execute to ensure the highest campaign performance.
The CDP Operational Database (COD) builds on the foundation of existing operational database capabilities that were available with Apache HBase and/or Apache Phoenix in legacy CDH and HDP deployments.
Spark is known for being extremely difficult to debug. But this is not all Spark’s fault. Problems in running a Spark job can be the result of problems with the infrastructure Spark is running on, inappropriate configuration of Spark, Spark issues, the currently running Spark job, other Spark jobs running at the same time – or interactions among these layers.
When you build a data warehouse, the important question is how to ingest data from the source system to the data warehouse. If the table is small you can fully reload a table on a regular basis, however, if the table is large a common technique is to perform incremental table updates. This post demonstrates how you can enhance incremental pipeline performance when you ingest data into BigQuery.
In recent years there has been increased interest in how to safely and efficiently extend enterprise data platforms and workloads into the cloud. CDOs are under increasing pressure to reduce costs by moving data and workloads to the cloud, similar to what has happened with business applications during the last decade. Our upcoming webinar is centered on how an integrated data platform supports the data strategy and goals of becoming a data-driven company.
Growth. It’s the mountain every startup founder must learn to climb in order to run a successful business. And as with any great mountain, the journey to the top never feels more daunting than at the base. How your startup earns its first 10 customers will set the tone for the rest of the trek and determine how fast your team reaches the summit — if at all.
