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Apache Arrow: driving columnar analytics performance and connectivity

Big data has come a long way since MapReduce. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat’s 2004 paper from Google gave birth…

Feb 7, 2022 Yves Mulkers 60M views 3 min read

Data Lakehouses: Have You Built Yours?

In traditional data warehouses, specific types of data are stored using a predefined database structure. Due to this “schema on…

Dec 1, 2021 Yves Mulkers 59M views 3 min read

Compare Hadoop vs. Spark vs. Kafka for your big data strategy

Big data became popular about a decade ago. The falling cost of storage led many enterprises to retain much of…

Nov 21, 2021 Yves Mulkers 33M views 3 min read

Why DBT will one day be bigger than Spark

The world of data is moving and shaking again. Ever since Hadoop came around, people were offloading workloads from their…

Feb 18, 2021 Yves Mulkers 83M views 4 min read

Most In Demand Tech Skills for Data Engineers

I analyzed job listings for data engineers in January 2020 to see which technology skills are most in demand. I…

Jul 5, 2020 Yves Mulkers 86M views 3 min read

What Does a Big Data Manager Do?

A Big Data Manager is a strategic thinker of an organization’s success. He/she is responsible for developing and managing data-oriented…

Jun 21, 2020 Yves Mulkers 67M views 3 min read

Data Science Interview Guide

Data Science is quite a large and diverse field. As a result, it is really difficult to be a jack…

Jan 5, 2020 Yves Mulkers 24M views 4 min read

Top 11 Tools For Distributed Machine Learning

There are two fundamentally different and complementary ways of accelerating machine learning workloads:  2. By horizontal scaling or scaling-out, where…

Jan 3, 2020 Yves Mulkers 25M views 2 min read

Big Data as a Service, an Interview with Google’s William Vambenepe

Many of the big data technologies in common use originated from Google and have become popular open source platforms, but…

Sep 29, 2019 Yves Mulkers 99M views 4 min read

Nvidia GPU Accelerators Get A Direct Pipe To Big Data

Nvidia has unveiled GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that enables its GPUs to talk directly with NVM-Express storage. The technology…

Aug 17, 2019 Yves Mulkers 114M views 3 min read