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Why Serverless Is The Future For Data & Analytics Platforms
Serverless In the bad old days, the first step when building a database, analytics or business intelligence solution would be to order or…
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 postYou Need An Orchestrator In Your Data Stack
There seems to be a knowledge gap around Data Orchestration tools such as Airflow and Dagster in the Data Engineering community. Though…
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 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 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 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 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 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The vast majority of Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions in place today operate on out-of-date, backwards looking, historical data…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 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 postRise Of The Citizen Data Scientist
Enabling Business Users To Carry Out Their Own Data Science and Analytics
View postBuilding A DBT Model In Snowflake
A short demo of building a DBT model against Snowflake.
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 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 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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