IDG Contributor Network: ETL is dead Extract, transform, and load. It doesn’t sound too complicated. But, as anyone who’s managed a data pipeline will tell you, the simple name hides a ton of complexity. And while none of the steps are easy, the part that gives data engineers nightmares is the transform. Taking raw data, […]
IDG Contributor Network: AI and quantum computing: technology that’s fueling innovation and solving future problems Two weeks ago, I spent time in Orlando, Florida, attending Microsoft’s huge IT pro and developer conference known as Microsoft Ignite. Having the opportunity to attend events such as this to see the latest in technological advancements is one of […]
IDG Contributor Network: The rise and predominance of Apache Spark Initially open-sourced in 2012 and followed by its first stable release two years later, Apache Spark quickly became a prominent player in the big data space. Since then, its adoption by big data companies has been on the rise at an eye-catching rate. In-memory processing […]
Now’s the time to do deep learning in the cloud The AWS Re:invent conference is coming up, and predictions are starting to fly around what Amazon Web Services will announce there. A sure bet is that it will announce some sort of deep learning cloud service. Of course, Google, Microsoft, and IBM won’t be far […]
Making sense of Microsoft’s graph database strategy It’s taken some time, but Microsoft’s $26 billion purchase of LinkedIn is finally starting to show some interesting results, with LinkedIn data starting to show up in tools like Outlook. It’s the first sign of Microsoft using the social network’s relationship graph, the complex data set that was […]
The cloud computing wars have forgotten the enterprise At this week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison announced his company’s new autonomous database product. However, Larry being Larry, he took several minutes to disparage Amazon Web Services, especially its Redshift database technology. AWS dominates the cloud market. Now that Oracle is fully committed to […]
Don’t take Oracle’s cloud-superiority claims too seriously Oracle CEO Mark Hurd claims he doesn’t “really worry so much about” Amazon Web Services. That statement is either profoundly disingenuous or utterly ridiculous. Or perhaps Hurd and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, who launched this week’s Oracle OpenWorld by fixating on AWS, trying mightily to convince attendees that […]
11 open source tools to make the most of machine learning Venerable Shogun was created in 1999 and written in C++, but can be used with Java, Python, C#, Ruby, R, Lua, Octave, and Matlab. The latest version, 6.0.0, adds native support for Microsoft Windows and the Scala language. Though popular and wide-ranging, Shogun has competition. Another […]
Azure Functions serverless computing to finally get Java Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless computing platform now has beta support for Java programming, a feature developers have demanded since Azure Functions’ 2016 debut. The beta inclusion of Java joins Azure Functions’ existing support of JavaScript, C#, F#, Python, PHP, Bash, Batch, and PowerShell. The Java runtime will share […]
Awless tutorial: Try a smarter CLI for AWS When the cloud was just about virtual machines, tools like Chef or Puppet helped us easily prepare our VMs. The only thing that mattered was to provision instances that contained all of the code and data required. But now that Amazon Web Services has ballooned to more […]
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