Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Madhukar Kumar. The data landscape has grown increasingly demanding and crowded in the last few years, with many platforms competing to offer the best processing and storage options. Tech consumers expect companies to deliver high-speed data processing while simultaneously offering a variety of adaptable solutions that work with traditional applications but also built for modern architecture like microservices. Unlike a monolithic framework, a microservice structure enables companies to facilitate faster time-to-market for new applications or updates. With the lightweight design and agility of microservices, companies can allocate each individual service they offer to its own distinct ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in three AWS regions: N. Virginia (us-east-1), Ohio (us-east-2) and Ireland (eu-west-1). Customers also have the option to create new clusters with Apache Kafka version 2.1.0 or 1.1.1.   ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Loyalty is practically its own form of currency, especially for eCommerce stores. When customers are loyal to your store, they offer greater customer lifetime value (CLV) which in turn, generates more revenue for your business.If you want your eCommerce store to be as successful as possible (and who doesn’t?), measuring customer loyalty with key customer retention metrics will show you how many of your customers are coming back to your store again and again. With that data, you can make smart improvements to your business to further boost customer loyalty.Let’s take a closer look ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Alastair Green, Query Languages Standards & Research Lead, Neo4j | February 15, 2019Reading time: 4 minutes The community vote by Apache Spark contributors has just closed – and the results are positive. Thank you to everyone who participated when we asked for your votes and feedback.As part of the preparations for a forthcoming Apache Spark 3.0 release, the Spark development community has just completed a positive vote for a Spark Project Improvement Proposal (SPIP) to add property graphs based on DataFrames to Spark. Based on the achievements of the ongoing ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 15 February, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Project Griffon: Datasource & Workbook Audit With Project Griffon, we want to share examples and started with you – the Tableau Community. The objective here is to share tools which use what you have in front of you to help explain more about what’s going on. Please be sure to read the introduction to Project Griffon, and ensure that you have access to the Tableau Server Repository via the Postgres connection. Ask and ye shall receive! The first Project Griffon blog of 2019 comes via a request from Sam Parsons. Sam’s ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Adriana Gil Miner. As the standard language of analytics for business users and analytics professionals, Tableau is one of the fastest-growing technical job skills in today's job market. And Tableau helps people learn and develop data skills fast. When people explore data in an easy, iterative way that provides immediate feedback, users feel more connected to their data, which leads to deeper understanding and better decisions. Tableau’s unique user experience paired with our industry-leading education and user enablement resources are proven to help people develop skills, unlock curiosity, and unleash their creativity using data—helping our customers ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Michael Rabin. Some say that the insurance industry is a long, quiet river on which stately steamships cruise. Others say it is a shark tank where only the strongest survive. Which is right?  The answer is both. The insurance market is clearly mature, with a limited scope of action for individual players. There is, however, no question that merciless predatory competition is taking place, probably precisely because of this saturation. It is the perfect recipe for a ruinous price war, even though this is something that insurers really cannot afford in the long term. There is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: James Baker. On February 7, 2019 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads. In this blog post we’ll take a closer look at the technical foundation of ADLS that will power the end to end analytics scenarios our customers demand. ADLS is the only cloud storage service that is purpose-built for big data analytics. It is designed to integrate ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Anuneet Kumar. This post is contributed by Adam McLean – Solutions Developer at AWS and Chirill Cucereavii – Application Architect at AWS In this post, we show you how to automatically refresh the container instances in an active Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster with instances built from a newly released AMI. The Amazon ECS-optimized AMI  comes prepackaged with the ECS container agent, Docker agent, and the ecs-init upstart service. We recommend that you use the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI for your container instances unless your application requires any of the following: A specific operating system Custom security and monitoring agents installed ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) hosted a hackathon on January 22nd and February 5th. The hackathon provided AWS technologists and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with a collaborative opportunity to contribute to the greater good, innovating to solve some of the challenges the charity currently faces with its operations and objectives. Like many charities, the BHF is entirely reliant on the public’s generosity to fund its lifesaving research and receives no government funding.  With around seven million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory ... Read More