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5 Factors to Consider before Pouring Data in your Data Lake

As organizations move into a Big Data world, many projects will include a Data Lake component. What is a data lake,…

Jul 8, 2017 Yves Mulkers 67M views 4 min read

The Next Distributed Data Processing Revolution?

Will Apache Flink displace Apache Spark as the new champion of Big Data Processing? We compare Spark and Apache Flink…

Jul 8, 2017 Yves Mulkers 53M views 3 min read

Under the hood of machine learning

The idea of “rational” machines has always been part of the human imagination. As the field of artificial intelligence (AI)…

Jun 23, 2017 Yves Mulkers 164M views 3 min read

Embrace Diversity in Your Data Architecture

Over the last ten years, the data management landscape has changed dramatically — on that, I think we can all…

Jun 12, 2017 Yves Mulkers 54M views 3 min read

When is real-time analytics the right analytics?

In today’s dynamic business environment, most firms are focusing on agility, responsiveness and customer centricity in order to remain competitive.…

Apr 7, 2017 Yves Mulkers 68M views 2 min read

Batch vs. Real Time Data Processing

Batch data processing is an efficient way of processing high volumes of data is where a group of transactions is collected…

Feb 17, 2017 Yves Mulkers 96M views 2 min read

Going with the stream: unbounded data processing with Apache Flink

Previously, we introduced streaming, saw some of the benefits it can bring and discussed some of the architectural options and…

Feb 8, 2017 Yves Mulkers 59M views 4 min read

Monolithic vs. microservice architectures for innovation

Batch processing and offline maintenance are terms once feared as much as memory and computer power were yesterday. The eruption…

Feb 7, 2017 Yves Mulkers 198M views 2 min read

​25 Big Data Terms You Must Know To Impress Your Date (Or whoever you want to)

Big Data is intimidating! If you are new to Big Data, please read ‘What is Big Data’, ‘Who coined Big…

Jan 31, 2017 Yves Mulkers 52M views 10 min read

5 architectural principles for building big data systems on AWS

On Tuesday, at the 2016 AWS re:Invent conference, Siva Raghupathy, senior manager for solutions architecture at Amazon Web Services, shared…

Dec 4, 2016 Yves Mulkers 90M views 2 min read