Episode 112 – Roaring News

In this last Big Data news episode for the month of November, we look forward to the H2O World event next week in London and we have articles on BI Maturity and the upcoming Apache Ozone project that will supplant HDFS in future Hadoop clusters soon(TM). Continue reading “Episode 112 – Roaring News”

Episode 111 – How Public Cloud changed Big Data

No interview this time but just Dave and Jhon talking about how public cloud changed Big data. Current news has brought this topic back to the foreground and we though it was a good idea to give our views on this subject.

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Episode 110 – Roaring News

Another week, another Big Data News episode. After going over all the event ticket giveaways that are currently going on, we have an article that goes over the basics on ETL vs ELT and have some fun with R graphs by the XKCD web comic. We finish with an in depth article on columnar data stores and a quick shout-out to Apache Nifi.

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Episode 109 – Open Metadata and Governance Masterclass with Mandy Chessell – Part 2

In this GDPR world, Data Governance and Data Lineage are, or should be, very much top of mind for anybody in the Big Data world. We reached out to Mandy Chessell, who has been very active in this area and were delighted when she accepted to do an interview with us.

In this second part, we discuss the ins and outs of good data stewardship and how companies can adopt, implement and contribute. Continue reading “Episode 109 – Open Metadata and Governance Masterclass with Mandy Chessell – Part 2”

Episode 108 – Roaring News

Another episode of Big Data News and not just another episode, but an episode packed and packed with items. Before we do our regular article reviews, we are doing raffles for not one, not two but three different events! And as if that was not enough, our friends from Pulsar dropped in with their big Apache top-level project announcement.

So not very bite sized this time, but smack full of delicious Big Data news!

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