Recently, I've seen a lot of articles and conversation around DevOps. DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, in order to enable be shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, and more dependable releases all in conjunction with business needs. Companies are increasingly adopting DevOps practices utilizing agile methodologies along with automat...

This blog post is part 1 of a series of blog posts on Apache Beam. Are you familiar with Apache Beam? If not, don’t be ashamed, as one of the latest projects developed by the Apache Software Foundation and first released in June 2016, Apache Beam is still relatively new in the data processing world. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t until recently when I started to work closely with Apache Beam, that I loved to learn and...

Let’s continue our conversation about Job Design Patterns with Talend.  In my last blog, Successful Methodologies with Talend, I discussed the importance of a well-balanced approach: Having a clearly defined ‘Use Case’, Incorporating the proper ‘Technology’ Defining the way everyone works together with a ‘Methodology’ of choice (Waterfall, Agile, JEP...

There’s a little over a month left before May 25th, the date on which businesses that handle personal data of EU citizens will have to comply with the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Numerous reports suggest that up to half of businesses are still not ready to comply with GDPR – and are therefore at risk of incurring significant fines, as well as fail...

I first want to start by thanking all the readers of my previous 2 blogs on the topic of Talend and Apache Spark. If you are new to this blog series and haven’t read my previous posts, you can start reading them here “Talend & Apache Spark: A Technical Primer” and part two here “...

Sports betting and e-gaming companies operate in a fast-paced, highly competitive and regulated market. They’re open 24/7/365, and are constantly striving to provide customers with the best online sports betting experience or risk seeing those customers go to a competitor. Formed in 2016, Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) is the world’s largest publicly quote...

Five Pillars that will Help You Chart the Best Course for Success using Talend & MapR  Is it just me, or does there somehow seem to be an eerie correlation between the quickly approaching, May 25thdeadline for compliance with the ...

Today, Talend is pleased to announce the release of the Talend Architecture Center. This site provides you – our customers and partners – reference architectures and guidance for building scalable and secure solutions using Talend products. The goal of this Architecture Center is to publish logical and physical architectures in order to help you understand the various components in our products, the relationship and i...

Hello! After joining Talend 4 months ago, I’m now getting around to publishing my first blog. Since this is my first entry, I decided to dive into the details on one of my favorite topics, the Internet of Things. This is the first entry in a series I’ll be writing around the Internet of Things where we’ll go over all the parts of an IoT project, starting from the edge device continuing to data ingestion and its integration to business applications. If you scroll around th...

Recently I found myself in a predicament that many of you can relate to, trying to update an aging application that has become too difficult to manage and too costly to continue operating. As we started to talk about what to do, we concluded it was time to start decomposing that application into smaller more manageable pieces. We spent the rest of the afternoon white boarding what we were going to do. That whole time I kept imaging a car engine that had been completely stripped and al...