It’s Real-Time time Lately Real-Time processing has been gaining a lot of popularity. However, one thing to note is that the concept of Real-Time, RT, has been around for some time. Traditional enterprise software vendors have been providing tools to do real time processing, formerly known as “Complex Event Processing” or CEP systems, for quite some…
I spent few days in the last two weeks attending Strata London and then BigAnalytics Israel conferences. I took some notes on what’s happening, for readers whose conference budget was spent less wisely. Strata London took place only 3 month after Strata San Jose, so it was a bit surprising to discover that when you…
Years back I had a very popular tutorial on how to migrate a Data Warehouse to Hadoop. You can see the outline on Percona’s conference site. I basically spent the last 4 years of my life migrating data from relational databases to Hadoop. Now that I’m working on Kafka, its time to migrate your Data Warehouse…
Here’s a pro-tip (although not necessarily an ingest tip): You go to conferences to get industry gossip, and you get the best gossip at the exhibit hall. Best time is Thursday evening when beer and cocktails are served. People relax, have fun and even competitors seem to spill the beans on not-yet-announced products and features. But…