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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. Other flows are more sophisticated: one Storm topology can pass the data to another topology via Kafka or Cassandra. Towards Unified Big Data Processing. Apache Spark [10].

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How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes

All Things Distributed

Amazon's worldwide financial operations team has the incredible task of tracking all of that data (think petabytes). At Amazon's scale, a miscalculated metric, like cost per unit, or delayed data can have a huge impact (think millions of dollars). The team is constantly looking for ways to get more accurate data, faster.

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Sustainability: Thoughts from a software engineer

Dynatrace

Until recently, improvements in data center power efficiency compensated almost entirely for the increasing demand for computing resources. The rise of big data, cryptocurrencies, and AI means the IT sector contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. However, this trend is now reversing.

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Auto-Diagnosis and Remediation in Netflix Data Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

The data platform is built on top of several distributed systems, and due to the inherent nature of these systems, it is inevitable that these workloads run into failures periodically. This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure.

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What is IT operations analytics? Extract more data insights from more sources

Dynatrace

Then, big data analytics technologies, such as Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark, or Grail, the Dynatrace data lakehouse technology, interpret this information. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy. Choose a repository to collect data and define where to store data.

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

As cloud and big data complexity scales beyond the ability of traditional monitoring tools to handle, next-generation cloud monitoring and observability are becoming necessities for IT teams. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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Giving data a heartbeat

Dynatrace

JavaScript errors are emotionless with simple data points of metrics. And it’s easy to ignore or argue metrics because they can’t argue back. I still love data, but I am starting to love emotion-filled data. Bigdata helps us make the right decisions and focus on the right things.

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