Tag: streaming

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now scale your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters on demand by changing the size or family of your brokers without reassigning Apache Kafka partitions. Changing the size or family of your brokers gives you the flexibility to adjust your MSK cluster’s compute capacity based on changes in your workloads, without interrupting your cluster I/O. In just a few clicks, you can scale up or scale down your Amazon MSK clusters’ compute capacity that includes CPU, memory, network throughput and I/O capacity. You will be charged for the chosen broker size or family ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In today’s world, most organizations have to tackle the 3 V’s of variety, volume and velocity of big data. In this blog post, we talk about dealing with the variety and volume aspects of big data. The challenge of dealing with the variety involves processing data from various SQL and NoSQL systems. This variety can include data from rdbms sources such as Amazon Aurora or NoSQL sources such as Amazon DynamoDB or 3rd party APIs. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mark McQuade. By Mark McQuade, Practice Manager, Data Science & Engineering – RackspaceBy Khobaib Zaamout, Data Scientist – Rackspace Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become widely recognized for their unique capabilities in helping companies utilize data. With AI and ML, organizations can leverage data for a wide range of use cases, including generating insights that power product and content recommendations and financial forecasting that aid in strategic business planning and growth. The prowess of these technologies in making sense of data has become a vital asset during the COVID-19 pandemic ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Thomas Keil. It became very clear that a solid mathematical and scientific education is a must for these disciplines, especially when it comes to statistics. And with the increasing amount of big medical data, statisticians had to become data scientists and keep expanding their competencies along the way. So, it comes with no surprise that there already is an association of those specialists to benefit from each other’s knowledge – called “PHUSE”. PHUSE is an independent, not-for-profit global community and platform for the discussion of topics encompassing the work of data managers, biostatisticians, statistical programmers, data ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: InsideMySQL.com; Dear MySQL users, MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.23 is a new version in the MySQL Connector/ODBC8.0 series, the ODBC driver for the MySQL Server. The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driverbased on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver type youneed based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI.Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitablefor use with the latest MySQL server version 8.0. This release of the MySQL ODBC driver is conforming to the ODBC 3.8specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8 features,including self-identification as ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. Recommended soundtrack for this blog post: Netflix Trip by AJR. "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them." Andy Bernard from The Office This week's news confirms what I already knew: The Office was the most-streamed television show of 2020. According to reports that I've seen, the show was streamed for 57 billion minutes during this extraordinary year. I'm guessing that's in part because we've all been shut in and working from home; we crave our missing office interactions. We lived vicariously ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ryan Williamson. The global media and entertainment industry has witnessed profound changes over the past couple of decades, thanks to technology's rapid evolution. However, the thing about technology is that it is prevalent and doesn’t affect just one industry. To cut a long story short, the advancement of technology has shaped and transformed the media and entertainment industry and the customers it serves. Take content streaming, for example; even though it is an entirely new form of content consumption, it is well on its way to overshadow conventional mediums. Similarly, there ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . With more and more data at our fingertips, it’s getting harder to focus on the information relevant to our problems and present it in an actionable way. That’s what business intelligence is all about.BI tools make it simpler to corral the right data and visualize it in ways that enable us to understand what it means. But how simple that process gets, and how you can visualize the data depends on the tool: Picking the right one for your needs becomes important.Here we round up of a dozen popular, highly regarded BI tools to help you ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now enables you to use attributes from social and corporate identity providers to make access control decisions and simplify permissions management to AWS resources. In Amazon Cognito, you can either choose predefined attribute-tag mappings or create custom mappings using the attributes from social and corporate providers’ access/ID tokens or SAML assertions. You can then reference the tags in AWS IAM permissions policy to implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) and manage access to your AWS resources. For example, you have a music streaming application and let users listen to music files in an S3 ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Guest. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the holiday season may feel drastically different from any other holiday season before it. If physical distancing rules are enforced in your location, then it can be impossible to shop physically at your favorite retailers. Likewise, it may be challenging for you to physically meet your family to participate in your yearly holiday traditions.That’s why more people are spending time on the Internet nowadays. On your computer, you can shop online or connect with friends and loved ones. In your spare time, you can also consume more entertainment online ... Read More