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Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics. AWS Glue uses connections to access certain types of source and target data stores, as described in the AWS Glue documentation.By default, you can use AWS Glue to create connections to data stores in the same AWS account and AWS Region as the one where you have AWS Glue resources. In this blog post, we describe how to access data stores in an account or AWS Region different from the one where ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Tom Wheeler. For a user-facing system like Apache Impala, bad performance and downtime can have serious negative impacts on your business. Given the complexity of the system and all the moving parts, troubleshooting can be time-consuming and overwhelming. In this blog post series, we are going to show how the charts and metrics on Cloudera Manager (CM) can help troubleshoot Impala performance issues. They can also help to monitor the system to predict and prevent future outages. CM provides a comprehensive suite of time-series and pre-aggregated metrics and charts at varying levels of ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; PREVIOUS POST At AWS Re:Invent 2018 there were many great announcements of AWS New Services and New Features, but one basic feature that I’ve been waiting for years to be released is still nowhere to be  found. AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is great and it’s got better through the years, adding different storage types and features like Provisioned IOPS. However, it still has the most basic inconvenient requirement – I have to decide in advance how much space I need to allocate, and pay for all of that allocated space whether I use it ... Read More

Feed: Blog. Author: Kim Brushaber; It seems like we hear about a new data breach on an almost daily basis.  This past week, we heard about two newsworthy data breaches that were caused/detected in some part by a Merger or Acquisition. The first worth mentioning is the Starwood/Marriott data breach which affected up to 500 million accounts.  It has been reported that an "unauthorized party" was able to copy and encrypt information from the Starwood guest systems.  There is also a possibility that some information may have been removed.  The breach was detected before Sept 10 but may date as far back ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe ability for modern organizations to share information and documents is more important than ever. In today’s global environment, having file sharing that is limited to a single datacenter is no longer sufficient for many companies. IT administrators need to provide business-efficient ways to share those documents. File sync and share platforms allow companies to share files within their organization, beyond the boundaries of their own datacenter. Instead of accessing all files from a single location, with sync and share the files can be ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Privacy is one of our main concerns here at Cloudwards.net. We tout the best tools to maintain it, too, many of which come with a price tag. While we do our best to mention free tools, as well, many of the options fly under the radar. That’s why we’ve put together a guide of 99 free tools to protect your privacy. While most come with some downsides, the options we found will maintain your anonymity on your desktop and online. While we’ve tested most of the tools on the list, we haven’t tested them all ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lucy Wyman; Hello, fearless reader! In case you missed it, we hosted a workshop for the Contributor Summit Online event to introduce best practices for writing Puppet Tasks. The workshop was a speedy general-overview, and I want to dive deeper into writing robust tasks and how the helper modules for Python and Ruby that we just released help you do just that.What’s Puppet Tasks? In case you’re new to Puppet Tasks, they’re scripts with optional metadata that you can run on target machines in your infrastructure, allowing you to make as-needed changes to remote systems ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; The Contributor Summit Project Month was a resounding success! Eight projects were started and six hit their goals and made releases. I'll tell you more about those in a moment, but for now — just what the heck is this project month anyway?Transitioning from the PuppetConf format to Puppetize Live meant that we had an opportunity to take a fresh look at how Contributor Summit was run. In previous years we hosted all day summits, with short and intensive hack sessions. These were great fun and good for getting one's hands dirty with ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . In November, we announced Power BI’s self-service data preparation capabilities with dataflows, making it possible for business analysts and BI professionals to author and manage complex data prep tasks using familiar self-service tools. Dataflow data can be easily shared across Power BI, allowing business analysts and BI professionals to save time and resources by building on each other’s work, instead of duplicating it, leading to more unified, less siloed data. Learn more about Power BI data prep capabilities here. Today, we’re excited to announce integration between Power BI dataflows ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Parikshit Savjani. Apache Airflow is an open source platform used to author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Airflow overcomes some of the limitations of the cron utility by providing an extensible framework that includes operators, programmable interface to author jobs, scalable distributed architecture, and rich tracking and monitoring capabilities. Since its addition to Apache foundation in 2015, Airflow has seen great adoption by the community for designing and orchestrating ETL pipelines and ML workflows. In Airflow, a workflow is defined as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), ensuring that the defined tasks are executed one after another ... Read More