Big Data Analytics

With the new additions of Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams in its recent releases, Kafka is gearing up to become a more comprehensive platform for handling high velocity data streams. A brief overview of Kafka is in order before we get into…

As you may already know, there has been a huge upsurge in the importance and popularity of data analytics in the last couple of years. With an ever-increasing number of job opportunities, plenty of people from different professional…

Introduction As we move further into the information age, we are finding ourselves in an increasingly data-rich and data-oriented world. Almost everything that a company does today is dictated by data and analytics in one way or another.…

HBase is a Hadoop ecosystem component that I would describe as an all-rounder in the big data analytics playground. Let me explain with an example. Take a typical Hadoop-based big data analytics project – be it building a decision…

Working in new and emerging technologies, I am aware that a solution put together today can quickly get out-of-date as newer & better technologies & techniques keep coming up quite fast. I kind of felt the full import of it when I…

Data is the information you collect from your customers. That’s more or less the basic definition of it. Big data, though, is something else entirely. It represents the modern era of digital strategizing and is growing at an alarming rate.…