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Celebrating 1Oth Anniversary: Big Industries goes Montenegro

This year we celebrated the 1Oth Anniversary of our company with an exclusive edition of our renowned Big Industries Academy ...
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Andreia GOES ICT - Rising Tech Star of the Year 2025

Andreia Azevedo Heringer Negreira (31) is a Big Data Consultant at Big Industries,...

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Getting Started with Databricks Community Edition

Databricks Community Edition is a free, cloud-based version of the Databricks platform tailored...

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Between the Clouds: A Conversation on Careers and the Future of Cloud

Big Industries is proud to sponsor "Between the Clouds," an event held on October 22nd, 2024...

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Advanced Optimisation Strategies for AWS Glue Jobs with Spark engine

In the world of big data, the Apache Spark engine has evolved as a keystone technology for...

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A warm welcome to Esat Saglam

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Kudos again to Francine !

Francine previously passed the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam. She is excelling at her...

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HowTo? Series: prepare for AWS Certified Data Engineer exam

With this How To? Series we want to Share Our Wisdom not only internally with our Big Industries...

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part8: RabbitMQ

As Francine Anestis continues her deep dive into Messaging and Streaming technologies, she delves...

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The MinIO Enterprise Object Store: Built for AI Data Infrastructure

Big Industries recently entered into a partnership with MinIO, the company behind the popular open...

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What is work like at Big Industries?

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Serverless Stream Data Pipeline in AWS

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part7: NATS JetStream

In Francine Anestis ongoing exploration of Messaging and Streaming technologies, she immerses...

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part6: Redpanda

In this latest installment of Francine Anestis's series on Messaging and Streaming technologies,...

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dbt Explained

In the expansive world of data engineering, dbt (data build tool) has carved out a distinct niche....

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part5: Google Pub/Sub

This is the fifth article in a series of articles by Francine Anestis, where she looks at different...

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part4: AWS Kinesis

The fourth technology Francine Anestis is covering in the series "Exploring Messaging and...

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Geospatial Big Data at Big Industries PART II: How?

Recap: why GeoMesa?

As described in an earlier post, at Big Industries we make use of...

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part3: Azure Event Hubs

Following the series “Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies”, in Part 3, Francine Anestis...

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part2: Apache Pulsar

Francine Anestis writes a series of articles about various Messaging and Streaming technologies....

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Celebrating 1Oth Anniversary: Big Industries goes Montenegro

This year we celebrated the 1Oth Anniversary of our company with an exclusive edition of our...

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Kudos to Jutter & Bhagavan

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...

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Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies Part1: Apache Kafka

This is the first article in a series of articles by Francine Anestis, where she looks at...

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AWS Data & Analytics Services Competency

We are thrilled to announce that Cronos, with the help of Big Industries, has been recognized by...

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HowTo? Series: Prepare for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam

With this How To? Series we want to Share Our Wisdom not only internally with our Big Industries...

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Apache NiFi Explained

Apache NiFi, a robust, scalable, and configurable data processing and distribution system, has...

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Kudos to Muthiah

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...

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Life at Big Industries: Interview with Morad

Interview with Morad on how it is working for Big Industries? How important are the values Share...

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Big Industries partners with DBT Labs to empower Data Teams

A new collaboration that will enable Big Industries clients to leverage the power of dbt, the...

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Databricks: The Power of Delta Lake and Lakehouse Architecture

Big Industries recently entered into a partnership with Databricks, the leading cloud-based Data...

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A Warm Welcome to Jutter Peeters and Ali El Khattabi

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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A Warm Welcome to Andreia Negreira

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Life at Big Industries: Interview with Ruben

Interview with Ruben on how it is working for Big Industries? How important are the values Share...

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Happy New Year from Big Industries

Dear Employees and Customers,As the clock strikes midnight, we say goodbye to an incredible year...

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Workshop Operationalizing the Machine Learning Pipeline

Data Scientists andML Practitionersneed more than a Jupyter notebook to build, test, and deploy...

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Apache Iceberg: A Table Format for Large Scale Data

A comparison with Apache Kudu and Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg is an open source table format for...

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A warm welcome to Muthiah Karuppiah

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Workshop Event detection with AWS Managed Services for Apache Flink

In this workshop, you are the acting technology manager for a Las Vegas casino.

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Kudos to Boris

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...

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Harnessing the Power of AI with AWS SageMaker

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a...

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Apache Flink explained

Apache Flink is an open-source distributed processing engine for large-scale data streaming, batch...

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Big Industries joins AWS Scale

Big Industries has joined Scale, an initiative to streamline the partnership with AWS on Cronos...

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DevOps, DataOps and MLOps explained

What is the difference between DevOps and DataOps?

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HowTo? Series: JOLT - Part 1

Data comes in different shapes and sizes. Sometimes, we want to shape the structure of this data...

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Data Lakehouse and Data Mesh explained

Data Lakehouse and Data Mesh, what is what and where are the differences, especially the question...

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HowTo? Series: Connect Git between Laptop & CDP through Azure Devops

With this How To? Series we want to #ShareOurWisdom not only internally with our Big Industries...

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Apache Kafka & NiFi hands-on workshop

Introduction

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup...

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Big Industries Academy: Kudos to Joanna and Soundaram

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That's why we decided to setup the Big...

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Life at Big Industries: Interview with Francine

How did you join/find out about Big Industries?

After finalizing my studies and my internship, I...

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A warm welcome to Ruben Laureys

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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A warm welcome to Soundaram Natarajan

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Big Industries Academy: Kudos to Francine

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...

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HowTo? Series: Prepare for AWS Certified Developer exam

With this How To? Series we want to Share Our Wisdom not only internally with our Big Industries...

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How To? Series: Apache Kafka Setup

With this How To? Series we want to Share Our Wisdom not only internally with our Big Industries...

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Top Customer Kafka & Streaming data requests and how Big Industries can help

Data streams can be processed on a record-by-record basis or over sliding time windows, and used...

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A Warm welcome to Joanna Kiesiak

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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FROM BIG DATA TO BIG INDUSTRIES

From the very beginning, BIG Industries has been driven by a singular goal: to empower companies...

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A warm welcome to Kalil Zirak

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Life at Big Industries: Interview with Shrikrishna

How did you find out about Big Industries?

During the end of my masters’ studies, I had started...

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BIG Industries helps retail banks modernise in a customer-friendly way

Use case PSD2 Event Processor with Apache Kafka and Flink

BIG Industries recently helped a retail...

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A warm welcome to Francine Anestis

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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A warm welcome to Jonathan Bokungu

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Cloudera End of Support, How Big Industries can help

If you haven’t already started making plans for the HDP 3.1 or CDH 6 End of Support Life (EOSL)...

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Geospatial Big Data at Big Industries PART I: Why?

Why you should read this article

You will …

  • find out what tools one might use to do geospatial...
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Big Industries Academy: kudos to morad & kavitha

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...

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Life at Big Industries: Interview with Lennert

How did you find out about Big Industries?

I was in my final year of my Bachelor degree and...

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A warm welcome to Aditi Kumari

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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IOIntellia: Big Industries internal learning project

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...

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A warm welcome to Kavitha and Omanandan

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Life-Work balance at Big Industries

If I counted correctly, Big Industries' employees are parenting a total of 8 children (and...

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A warm welcome to Morad Alouad Abdenabi

Today Morad started his internship at Big Industries for a period of 15 weeks. Morad studies...

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Great reading: Data Teams by Jesse Anderson

I have been following Jesse Anderson's blog posts on Data Engineering for some time now and I was...

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A warm welcome to Shrikrishna Warkhedi

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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New Internships at Big Industries

In the current data world, there are two main roles that stand out in junior profiles. A DevOps...

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A warm welcome to Srivatsan Sadagopan

Congratulations on being part of Big Industries! The whole team welcomes you and we look forward...

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Kudos to Berk

Kudos to Berk for passing the AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional exam!!!

This exam...

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AWS Lake Formation: Build a secure Data Lake fast

AWS Lake Formation is a service by Amazon that simplifies the building, securing and managing of...

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Overcoming the 5 dysfunctions of a Team

Copyright Skool of Happiness Pte Ltd

The Big Industries values, Share your Wisdom, Feed the Family...

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Are you ready for Cloudera CDP-Public Cloud?

Eleven years after its founding, Cloudera fulfilled its name in a big way with the launch of...

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The Future of Big Data is Kubernetes

Data governs the era we all live in. It is these data piles that prove to be a burden to a...

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Big Industries Big Meetup

The Big Industries Big Meetup is for Big Industries team mates, customers, suppliers and anyone...

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Press Release: Silsombos expands thanks to Natuurpunt and Big Industries

ERPS-KWERPS – Op donderdag 19 december gaan medewerkers van Big Industries NV, een consulting...

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Big Industries Academy: Kudos to Berk and Antony

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...

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New Internships at Big Industries

Big Industries, a member of the Cronos Group, is Belgium’s leading Big Data & Analytics systems...

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Big Industries Academy

If you grow as an employee, the company grows as well. That’s why we decided to setup the Big...
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The Big Industries DNA

The Big Industries values, or in other words our DNA, are the fundamental beliefs upon which our...
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Our Dream at Big Industries

“We will empower you to unleash your full potential

in a world of disruption and change”

...
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Why a Data Scientist is not a Data Engineer

I found an interesting article on O'Reilly.com ,written by Jesse Anderson, which explains the...

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10 proven steps to become a Data Engineer

A Data Engineer conceives, builds and maintains the data infrastructure that holds your...

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Hack the future 2018

Big Industries organizes already for the fourth time the Big Data Challenge during the Hack The...

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Kafka by Robin Moffatt (Confluent) and Big Industries

Join us for our next Brussels Apache Kafka® meetup on September 25th from 6:30pm, hosted...

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Apache Kafka vs. Enterprise Service Bus - Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?

Typically, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or other integration solutions like...

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Apache Kafka: A distributed streaming Platform

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. What exactly does that mean?

A streaming...
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New Partnership with Kafka vendor Confluent

Big Industries recently entered into a partnership with Confluent.

Confluent, founded by the...

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Cloudera Training Tapas: Hands-on with Cloudera Impala

Are you a Data Consultant, a Data Engineer, a Data Scientist or analist and interested to use a...

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Cloudera Training Tapas: Cloudera in the Cloud

Are you a Data Consultant, a Data Engineer, a Data Scientist or analist and interested to use a...

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Wrapping multiple backend Hadoop web applications with HAProxy

Authorizing access to multiple Hadoop applications on different nodes of the cluster can be complex...

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Cloudera Sessions London

A delegation of Big Industries recently attended the Cloudera Sessions which took place in the Old...

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Hack the future 2017

Big Industries organizes for the third time the Big Data Challenge during the Hack The Future...

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Does the world need cloudera?

Cloudera’s IPO in April 2017 was probably one of the most anticipated public offerings of the...

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How to read compressed mnist data when using Tensorflow on Hadoop

Our team at Big Industries has been recently working on implementing TensorFlow open-source deep...

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Cloudera User Group: Big Data analytics

Big Industries, as main sponsor of the Belgium Cloudera User Group, organised on Wednesday May...

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Apache spark market survey

Apache Spark has quickly grown into one of the major Big Data ecosystem projects and shows no...

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Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud

The fundamental promise of the book can be summarized by the following (page 258)Automate...

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Big Data Architectures: beyond hadoop

On March 14th Robert Gibbon gave a talk at the Digital Day organised by SAI in Brussels. During...

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Why Do I need a Data Lake?

A Data Lake is an enterprise-wide system for storing and analyzing disparate sources of data in...

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Emre Sevinç's Reviews > Designing Data-Intensive Applications

I consider this book a mini-encyclopedia of modern data engineering. Like a specialized...

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Data Governance in hadoop environments

Belgium Cloudera User Group Meetup

Big Industries, as main sponsor of the Belgium Cloudera...

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How to connect Apache Cassandra to Tableau

For a recent customer project, I supported a Cronos company so that we could install Apache...

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Hack The Future

On Thursday December 8th Cronos organised their annual Hack The Future Event. This...

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Cloudera User Group Meetup

Big Industries is the main sponsor and driving force behind the Belgian chapter of the Cloudera...

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New Internship: Building Realtime data pipelines with streamsets

Big Industries is the foremost one-stop advanced systems integration partner for Hadoop and NoSQL...

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Python eats into r as sas dominance fade

A new survey of data science tools shows that Python usage is quickly gaining steam among advance...

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Creating a Data Pipeline using Flume, Kafka, Spark and Hive

The aim of this post is to help you getting started with creating a data pipeline using flume,...

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Happy Birthday, Hadoop: Celebrating 10 Years

It’s hard to believe, but the first Hadoop cluster went into production at Yahoo 10 years ago...

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Building Real Time Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is designed to be fast,...

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Big Data processing with Apache Spark

Apache Spark is an open source big data processing framework built around speed, ease of use, and...

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Fast Business Intelligence For All with Hadoop and Tableau

Hadoop has forever changed the way we deal with data. Its ability to support parallel processing...

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