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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

IT admins can automate virtually any time-consuming task that requires regular application. This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models. And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? What is IT automation?

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Along with R , Python is one of the most-used languages for data analysis. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. Python libraries are no less useful for manipulating or engineering data, too.). In aggregate, data engineering usage declined 8% in 2019.

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Google Announces the General Availability of A2 Virtual Machines

InfoQ

Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine.

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Pushy to the Limit: Evolving Netflix’s WebSocket proxy for the future

The Netflix TechBlog

The first was voice control, where you can play a title or search using your virtual assistant with a voice command like “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix.” (See History & motivation There were two main motivating use cases that drove Pushy’s initial development and usage.

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

Technical roles represented in the “Other” category include IT managers, data engineers, DevOps practitioners, data scientists, systems engineers, and systems administrators. So it just makes sense to instantiate microservices at the level of the virtual machine (VM), as distinct to that of the container.

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Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next.

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Friends don't let friends build data pipelines

Abhishek Tiwari

Unfortunately, building data pipelines remains a daunting, time-consuming, and costly activity. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines.

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