Tag: Google Cloud Platform

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Kubernetes has been a big trend for a while now, particularly well-suited for microservices. Running your main databases on Kubernetes is probably NOT what you are looking for. However, there’s a niche market for them. My colleague Stephen Thorn did a great job explaining this in The Criticality of a Kubernetes Operator for Databases. If you are considering running your database on Kubernetes, have a look at it first. And, if after reading it you start wondering how the Operator works, Stephen also wrote an Introduction to Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir looked a little different this year. Instead of a three-day conference, we launched a nine-week digital event series that brought together our global cloud community to discuss and collaborate on the most significant cloud technology challenges facing companies today. We may have gone virtual, but some things stayed the same—all of our sessions (over 200 to be exact) are now available on YouTube to watch and learn from. That’s a lot of content to sift through, so here’s a quick breakdown of our top 10 sessions from Next OnAir: 1. Supercharge Productivity With No-Code ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Dr. Deep Medhi. Many of the fundamental breakthroughs such as detecting gravitational waves, genetic editing, changing the course of the Ebola outbreak and tracking down the origin of mass (the Higgs boson discovery) were made possible not only due to the strong federal support for research but also via advancements in the underlying computing and information technologies. Today, there is an exponential increase in data volume from simulations, sensors, observatories, satellites, and large scientific instruments such as the Vera Rubin Observatory (few hundreds of petabytes), High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (anticipated to enter the ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Hi everyone, In this week’s video, Adam Cowley shows off the React Hooks For Neo4j library that he created to make it easier for React users to build graph based applications. Kristof Neys compares NetworkX and Neo4j, Hantsy shows how to build a Spring Boot application, and we launched the Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark. And finally, David Allen builds an image annotation pipeline using GCP and Neo4j Aura. Cheers, Mark and the Developer Relations team This week’s featured community member is Luanne Misquitta, Vice President Of Engineering at GraphAware. Luanne ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Lou Bajuk, RStudio. [This article was first published on RStudio Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash Over the last few years, more companies have begun migrating their data science work to the cloud. As they do, they naturally want to bring along their favorite data science tools, including RStudio, R, and Python. In this blog post, we discuss the various ways ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Data scientist is one of the hottest jobs in IT. Companies are increasingly reliant on data and are eager to hire data professionals who can make sense of the information the business collects. If you are looking to get into this lucrative field, or want to stand out against the competition, certification can be key.Data science certifications are a great way to gain an edge because they allow you to develop skills that are hard to find in your desired industry. They're also a way to validate your skills, so recruiters and hiring managers know what ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Liverpool versus Manchester United. Cats versus dogs. Coke versus Pepsi. Rivalries have persisted throughout the ages. But for gamers, not many are more contested than Xbox versus Playstation. With the release of both the new Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 (PS5) consoles drawing near, the competition is heating up again. In the latest battle of the consoles, which platform will emerge victorious? We could attempt to guess the outcome by examining the desirable features of both. (Full disclosure, I am biased toward the current PS4.) But why not use data? With the help of Matillion ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; You may have stumbled across this article looking for help creating or modifying an existing date/time/calendar dimension. Or you may be struggling with dates in your reports or analytical tools. Everyone needs to set up a date dimension. This article will help you understand how to easily create a date dimension within Matillion ETL. For the sake of this article, I will be referring to the date dimension as a calendar dimension to avoid confusion.Why use Matillion ETL to create dimension tables?Matillion ETL enables you to migrate and load data into a cloud data warehouse ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Google Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully-managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your MySQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform. However, there are differences between Cloud SQL and standard MySQL functionality like limited control, restricted resources, data locality, budget and security, which may influence your final decision to move out from the Google Cloud SQL instances and host the database service in the on-premises infrastructure instead. This blog post will walk you through how to perform online migration from Google Cloud SQL to an on-premises server. Our target ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; As big data continues to get bigger, more organizations are turning to cloud data warehouses. The cloud is the only platform that provides the flexibility and scalability that are needed to accommodate today’s massive data volumes. Initially released in 2014, Snowflake is one of the top cloud warehouse platforms on the market.What is Snowflake Data Warehouse?Snowflake is a cloud data platform that’s provided as a fully-managed service. It can be used for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data analytics, data science, data application development, and for securely sharing and consuming shared data. One cool ... Read More