What is a Data Model? As Talend developers, we see them every day, and we think we know what they are: A structural definition of a business system data A graphical representation of business data A data foundation upon which to build business solutions These may all be true statements, but for a moment […]
You may have seen recently that the first stable version of Apache Beam (v.2.0) was recently released. Apache Beam is an advanced unified programming model designed for batch and streaming data processing. It’s extremely powerful and portable which is why we’ve been actively contributing to the project since the very beginning. Recently, we’ve integrated […]
Docker Containers are widely used and becoming even more prevalent as companies seek to streamline their operations. Containers help decouple compute resources from applications, increasing the elasticity and hence the efficiency of IT operations. DataDog reports that Docker usage has grown 40% over the past year, 18.8% of the DataDog sample customers use Docker. […]
Talend’s Summer ’17 release officially GA’d at the end of June and it was our biggest Cloud release yet! Building upon our already robust set of connectors to AWS—such as EMR, Redshift, Aurora, etc.—with this release we added a comprehensive set of connectors for the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, which included services […]
In the first two parts of this series we emphasized that manufacturing companies face enormous challenges in managing their data. Obviously, it takes a lot of skill to integrate the IT systems already in place – CAD, CAPP, MES, PPS and ERP, among many others. Technologies for IoT, cyber-physical systems, and Industry 4.0 make […]
This year, the Apache Software Foundation announced that Apache Beam was established as a new top-level project. A little over two years ago, Google committed its Dataflow SDK to the Apache Software Foundation, which provides a programming model used to express Data processing pipelines very easily. Talend has a long history with the Apache […]
The best part of summertime is being able to step back from the hectic day-to-day activities most of us get mired down in throughout the year, and take up a new activity we find exciting, challenging and fun! Knowing that developers like to keep their minds constantly engaged—no matter if they’re on vacation or […]
According to Gartner, over 85% of customer interactions will be managed without a human by 2020. We have seen a machine master the complex game of Go, previously thought to be the most difficult challenge of artificial processing. We have witnessed vehicles operating autonomously, including a caravan of trucks crossing Europe with only a […]
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes live in May 2018, businesses will need to track and trace sensitive data and determine how it is processed across their information supply chain. As a result, the way businesses approach data management will need to be handled carefully and will need to comply with “privacy by […]
In Part 1 of this blog series, I presented the benefits that Talend Data Preparation 2.1 (Summer ’17) delivers: in particular, an unmatched level of industrialization for IT and the integration of data preparations to any type of Big Data scenario – batch or streaming. In part 2, I’ll review the major new features we’ve added […]
