Qu’est-ce qu’un modèle de données ? En tant que développeurs Talend, nous le côtoyons jour après jour et nous pensons pouvoir le définir : une définition structurelle des données d’un système métier ; une représentation graphique des données métiers ; un socle de données sur lequel …
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Today’s CIOs are no strangers to the concept of the Enterprise Data Lake. Often times, an enterprise data lake is viewed as a panacea for all a CIO’s data ills, including being viewed as the ‘holy grail’ for those trying to spur digital transformation. Yet many …
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With the Euro 2016 tournament now drawing to a close, and having two kids of my own in a competitive soccer league, even a French husband; I now live and breathe football (or soccer depending on your frame of reference) almost every single day. Soccer, much …
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Engineering a big data ingestion pipeline is complicated – if you don’t have the right tools. All data, be it big, little, dark, structured, or unstructured, must be ingested, cleansed, and transformed before insights can be gleaned, a base tenet of the analytics process model. Talend, …
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In the beginning of ETL…. When I started my IT career over 15 years ago I was nothing more than a “Fresh-out” with a college degree and an interest in computers and programming. At that time, I knew the theories behind the Software Development Life Cycle …
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As part of a POC of Talend v6.1 Big Data capabilities, I was asked by one of our long-time customers, a major e-commerce company, to present a solution for aggregating huge files of clickstream data on Hadoop. The input data was a giant clickstream file (larger than …
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In my previous post about data quality in the Big Data era, we’ve seen some of the challenges raised by the recently born data operating system that came with Hadoop 2.0 and YARN . In Part 2 of this series, I’d like to explore how this new framework changes …
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With the world becoming more connected and data savvy with every passing year, there’s a rising need for businesses to efficiently manage the trillions of bytes of data that they capture, and gain insights from them. Talend helps businesses do exactly this while boosting developer productivity …
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In my previous blog “Beyond ‘The Data Vault’” I examined various data storage options and a practical architecture/design for an Enterprise Data Vault Warehouse. As you may have realized by now I am quite smitten with this innovative data modeling methodology and recommend to anyone who …
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This blog is the first in a series of posts explaining the overarching goal and purpose of the Apache Beam project. In the future blogs, we will explain how to use Apache Beam to implement data processing jobs. When you have an existing big data platform, …
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