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Preventing Customer Churn with Continual, Snowflake, and dbt

In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the customer churn/retention use case. This should contain everything needed to get started on the use case, and enterprising readers can also try this out for themselves in a free trial of Continual, following the customer churn example in the linked github repository.

Introducing Build Insights Pro for build- and test analytics

Track your build and test performance to get unstuck, get on track and accelerate your pipelines. Visualize performance and identify bottlenecks by using historical build and test performance tracking. Today, we introduce Build Insights Pro, a new awesome extension to help you achieve more.

Steps to Install Kafka on Ubuntu 20.04: 8 Easy Steps

Apache Kafka is a distributed message broker designed to handle large volumes of real-time data efficiently. Unlike traditional brokers like ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ, Kafka runs as a cluster of one or more servers which makes it highly scalable and due to this distributed nature it has inbuilt fault-tolerance while delivering higher throughput when compared to its counterparts. This article will walk you through the steps to install Kafka on Ubuntu 20.04 using simple 8 steps.

11 Redshift Tips for Startups

There has never been a better time to start a startup, thanks to all of the advancements in communications and data management technology. Data engineering and utilization are at the core of every new startup that plans on disrupting and dominating its markets. Fortunately, Amazon Redshift can make the data management aspects of running a business much easier. Here are 11 Amazon Redshift tips for startups.

Failover Across Clouds

In this extended demo, Sahaj Saini shows you how Snowflake can replicate data and account metadata (like users, roles, compute resources, resource monitors, etc...) and failover these over across cloud providers on demand. For the fictional company, Style Me Up, he'll demonstrate how to set up replication with failover groups and trigger a failover and redirect client applications.

Top Cloud Data Migration Challenges in 2022 and How to Fix Them

We recently sat down with Sandeep Uttamchandani, Chief Product Officer at Unravel, to discuss the top cloud data migration challenges in 2022. No question, the pace of data pipelines moving to the cloud is accelerating. But as we see more enterprises moving to the cloud, we also hear more stories about how migrations went off the rails. One report says that 90% of CIOs experience failure or disruption of data migration projects due to the complexity of moving from on-prem to the cloud. Here are Dr.

Choosing the Right Evaluation Metric

Is your model ready for production? It depends on how it’s measured. And measuring it with the right metric can unlock even better performance. Evaluating model performance is a vital step in building effective machine learning models. As you get started on Continual and start building models, understanding evaluation metrics helps to productionize the best performing model for your use case.