Every day in the US thousands of legitimate prescriptions for the opioid class of pharmaceuticals are written to mitigate acute pain during post-operation recovery, chronic back and neck pain, and a host of other cases where patients experience moderate-to-severe discomfort.

Cloudera’s SQL Stream Builder (SSB) is a versatile platform for data analytics using SQL. As apart of Cloudera Streaming Analytics it enables users to easily write, run, and manage real-time SQL queries on streams with a smooth user experience, while it attempts to expose the full power of Apache Flink. SQL has been around for a long time, and it is a very well understood language for querying data.

SQL Stream Builder (SSB) is a versatile platform for data analytics using SQL as a part of Cloudera Streaming Analytics, built on top of Apache Flink. It enables users to easily write, run, and manage real-time continuous SQL queries on stream data and a smooth user experience.

Once in a while I stumble upon Spark code that looks like it has been written by a Java developer and it never fails to make me wince because it is a missed opportunity to write elegant and efficient code: it is verbose, difficult to read, and full of distributed processing anti-patterns. One such occurrence happened a few weeks ago when one of my colleagues was trying to make some churn analysis code downloaded from GitHub work.

Financial inclusion, defined as the availability and accessibility of financial services to underserved communities, is a critical issue facing the banking industry today. According to the World Bank, 1.7 billion adults around the world do not have access to formal financial services, meaning that they cannot open a bank account or access credit, insurance, or other financial products.