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Why Serverless Is The Future For Data & Analytics Platforms
In the bad old days, the first step when building a database, analytics or business intelligence solution would be to order or provision a…
View postWhy We Moved From Druid To Clickhouse
Recently, our team have been working on a data product which can be used to provide real time analytics to business users. In order to…
View postReal Time Streaming Analytics On AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a large suite of products and services for data and analytics. These include managed databases, data lake…
View postWhat Is Data Engineering?
What is Data Engineering and why is it growing in importance?
View postCombining Clickhouse MergeTree Engines and Materialized Views
Why Databricks is experiencing significant market success.
View postIntroducing Timeflow Academy
Today we have pleasure announcing Timeflow Academy , our platform for helping new and experienced Data Engineers level up their skills…
View postFrom Historical Dashboards To Automated Interventions
Historically, business intelligence initiatives have focussed on providing self service dashboards and reports which are used to surface…
View postBuild Vs Buy For Real Time Event Streaming Platforms
Over the next few years, many businesses are going to be building real-time streaming data platforms based on data lakes and data warehouses…
View postIs Real Time Analytics Possible With A Data Warehouse
Data Warehouse technology has been the beating heart of business intelligence for many decades. Typically, these Data Warehouses act as the…
View postStream Processing vs The Data Warehouse For Real Time Analytics
Imagine that an eCommerce company would like to see a real-time summary of orders that have been placed in the last hour in order to…
View postReal Time Analytics - Use Cases In Transport & Travel
Whilst the online travel market is growing significantly, it is also a competitive and fast moving market with some margin challenges…
View postReal Time Analytics - Use Cases In Capital Markets
The Capital Markets industry was one of the first truly data driven industries, creating huge volumes of trading and market data and then…
View postWhat Is Dash, And How Can It Benefit Your Business?
As we know, many companies are looking to use their data more effectively in order to improve their business efficiency and customer…
View postWhat Is Apache Druid And What Can It Do For Your Business
An introduction to Apache Druid, the high performance real time database
View postWhy Embedded Analytics Beat Dashboards & Reports
Most Business Intelligence or analytics projects today aim to deliver reports and dashboards as the eventual output. The idea is that…
View postReal Time Anomaly Detection Using Data Stored In Apache Druid
Apache Druid is an open source database which is well suited for real time, analytical workloads. Druid is the database which underlies…
View postThe Risks Of Consumption Based Pricing For Analytics Tools
Broadly, there are three ways to price any subscription software product: Consumption Based - where the price charged is based entirely on…
View postThe Challenges Of Stream Processing Applications
The idea of processing a stream of events to generate business value is a relatively simple one to understand. We also believe it is a…
View postStateless and Stateful Event Processing
Comparing stateless and stateful event stream processing
View postReal Time Data and Analytics
The vast majority of Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions in place today operate on out-of-date, backwards looking, historical data…
View postReal Time Closed Loop Analytics
Many companies today are interested in using data to improve their business and customer experience. Most of these initiatives ultimately…
View postEmitting Apache Druid Metrics To Kafka
Apache Druid captures detailed metrics about how it is operating and performing, including query performance, memory usage, CPU utilisation…
View postHow DBT DevOps Enables Data Teams
How DBT raises the bar for Data Engineering teaams.
View postWhy OpenTelemetry Has The Potential To Simplify IT Operations
Telemetry is about collecting information from remote sources and bringing it back into a centralised location for analysis and monitoring…
View postWhat Is Apache Kafka and What Can It Do For Your Business?
An introduction to Apache Kafka
View postWhat Is The Data Lakehouse Pattern?
Introduction to the Data Lakehouse pattern
View postBuilding A DBT Model In Snowflake
A short demo of building a DBT model against Snowflake.
View postStreaming Technology - Sourcing Events
In order to move towards (Event Streaming and Event Based Architecture) /in-business-everything-is-an-event , the first thing we need to do…
View postFree Guide - An Overview Of Streaming Data Technology
Many companies are looking to use their data more effectively in order to improve their customer experience and the efficiency of their…
View postWhy Databricks Is Winning In The Data & Analytics Market
Why Databricks is experiencing significant market success.
View postHow DBT Helps Data Engineers Work Like Software Engineers
How DBT improves practices for data engineers
View postIntegrating Apache Druid With Plotly & Dash
Integrating Druid with Plotly and Dash to build interactive applications and visualisations
View postDeriving Real Time Events From Legacy Systems
As we know, a lot of business intelligence and data processing within enterprises is batch based, where periodically (e.g. daily) we…
View postMoving Towards Real Time Data & Analytics
As your business operates day to day, a number of events are taking place. Examples include orders, dispatches, customer enquiries or…
View postForecasting Using Data Stored In Apache Druid
Forecasting using Data stored in Apache Druid.
View postDatabricks Structured Streaming Example
Databricks structured streaming is the modern way to work with streaming data in Spark.
View postMaterialised Views On Event Streams
Imagine we have a stream of events representing new orders: Much of the move to event driven architecture is about responding to these…
View postUsing Real Time Data To Guide Employee Next Best Action
There has been a long held concern as to whether “Artificial Intelligence” will ultimately, replace humans en masse in the workforce. For…
View postWhy Data & Analytics Become Critical Post Pandemic
It's clear that the pandemic will lead to significant changes for businesses and the markets that they operate in. Despite a challenging…
View postWhy Event Driven Architecture Improves Audit & Compliance
Imagine we have a database table of customer details which sits behind a typical web application: Name Address Gender Lifetime Spend Ben…
View postBig Datas Elephant In The Room
For many years, "Big Data" was a major buzzword in enterprise IT. The theory was that as data volumes grew, we would need different…
View postHow Moving From Batch To Real Time Improves The Customer Experience
Over time, the typical business acquires more and more applications. Some will be bespoke, some off the shelf, some cloud hosted SaaS tools…
View postStep Away From The Dashboard
I often comment that dashboards are limiting the potential of what businesses achieve with data and analytics. The idea of a dashboard…
View postIs Your Procurement Department Throttling Your Ability To Innovate?
Big Corp Enterprise LTD are in the business of making widgets. They are a huge business and have led their industry for decades. However…
View postMoving From Batch To Streaming Extract, Transform and Load
There are many situations in Enterprise IT where we need to move, copy or integrate datasets. For example, populating a centralised data…
View postFrom Titanic Releases To 10,000 Speedboats With Continuous Delivery
Does your software release process look anything like this.... Releases are big events marked months ahead on the calendar; A lot of…
View postIn Business, Everything Is An Event
Imagine a simple customer interaction for an eCommerce business: A customer visits the website and browses some products; They browse…
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