A common practice in any development team is to conduct code reviews, or at least it should be.  This is a process where multiple developers inspect written code and discuss its design, implementation, and structure to increase quality and accuracy.  Whether you subscribe to the notion of formal reviews or a more lightweight method (such a...

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...

Like many other sectors, the future of fitness is customized and partially online - though to get results, one will still have to monitor their diet and exercise in real life. With 23 million customers, Beachbody is a worldwide leader in health and fitness. With over 5 million monthly unique visitors, Beachbody started to face some real-time big data challenges. Beachbody was running a conventional on-premises Oracle data warehouse to store i...

Whether it’s CRM data used for a marketing campaign or sales figures compiled for the quarterly financial reporting, every company knows that data quality is the cornerstone to accurate and efficient work. Today, only 3% of companies’ data meets basic quality standards. But, there is hope as simple solution exists to prepare data and improve data quality: Talend Dat...

Today on July 19, we released Talend Summer ’18, which is jam-packed with cloud features and capabilities. We know you are going to love the Talend Cloud automated integration pipelines, Okta Single Sign-On, and the enhanced data preparation and data stewardship functions…there is so much to explore! Taking DevOps to the Next Level with the Launch of Jenkens Maven Plug-in Support...

Thanks to all our readers for a very positive response to my previous blog on “Informatica PowerCenter Developers Guide to Talend”. The first part of the series provided an overview of the architectural differences between PowerCenter and Talend. It also provided a primer on Talend Studio – our unified development environment – for developers transitioning over fr...

If you didn’t catch it, the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools published in early August and what was most notable about this year’s report is that many of the legacy vendors in the Leaders’ Quadrant moved down and back, causing the entire competitive landscape to shift. Download the 2017 Gartner Magic...

In this example, I have been asked to check if the corporate standard for naming employee documents has been adhered to. If not, I then want to know how many deviations are in the dataset. You have in your database a table of employees, employee documents (contracts of employment, performance reviews etc.), and a table of document types. Let's begin by utilizing those data sets and see what we come up with....

A well-defined SDLC practice in a typical organization generally has projects running with users and roles. These users design, develop, test and deploy the jobs as per the business need/requirement. But have you ever wondered - what happens to the code after that? What if multiple developers want to work on the same job? How would you store this code, and how does one ensure that other developers always pick the right version? Well, welcome to the world of  "Continuous Integr...

The 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools will help catapult your latest Talend project from “your best-kept secret” into a organizationally-recognized example of genius.  We all have our ‘dirty little secrets’, if you will, don’t we? Maybe you threw a party at your parent’s house in high school when they were on vacation.  Maybe that buddy you used to hang out with in college wasn’t really John Travo...