Going Beyond Observability for Spark Applications & Databricks Environments

Join Chris Santiago, Solutions Engineer Director at Unravel Data, as he takes you through Unravel’s approach to getting better and finer grain visibility with Spark applications and how to tune and optimize them for resource efficiency. An overview of out of the box tools like Ganglia and their overall lack of visibility on Databricks jobs How Unravel helps you gain finer grain visibility, observability, monitoring into Spark data pipelines How Unravel can recommend better configurations and tuning of Spark applications.

Why operational reporting is still essential in modern BI solutions

Yellowfin frequently speaks with prospects that list operational reporting as a critical requirement when buying an analytics solution. Despite the usefulness of the latest features, standard reporting capabilities is still an essential part of their BI checklist. But why?

Inventory management with BigQuery and Cloud Run

Many people think of Cloud Run just as a way of hosting websites. Cloud Run is great at that, but there's so much more you can do with it. Here we'll explore how you can use Cloud Run and BigQuery together to create an inventory management system. I'm using a subset of the Iowa Liquor Control Board data set to create a smaller inventory file for my fictional store. In my inventory management scenario we get a csv file dropped into Cloud Storage to bulk load new inventory.