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Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Redshift

When choosing any SaaS application, you must start with a clear understanding of your business requirements. Then ask yourself the following questions: Develop a framework for data processing requirements, and you'll find a data warehouse solution that provides the right amount of power, functionality, and high performance for data analytics. Keep the answers to these questions in mind when reading through this article.

Channel global decoupling for region discovery

Ably is a platform for pub/sub messaging. Publishes are done on named channels, and clients subscribed to a given channel have all messages on that channel delivered to them. The Ably pub/sub backend is multi-region: we run the production cluster in 7 AWS regions, and channel pub/sub operates seamlessly between them.

CDP on Azure: Harnessing the Power of Data Flow and Event Processing

Data is being created at an ever increasing rate and generating insights through event streams has become a critical function for businesses. How can we process this data flowing in the enterprise, evaluate, enrich and transform it, all in real time to enable fast analytics to support intelligent decision making? Join us for this session where we will look at how we can use the elastic nature of Azure to scale Data Flows and perform SQL operations in realtime on streaming data from a variety of sources.

What Is Snowflake?

As a company’s data assets grow, the need for cloud computing increases in tandem. For keeping pace with this growth, Snowflake stands above the rest. What makes Snowflake so special? This cloud-agnostic platform takes the best of traditional database technology and combines it with modern cloud computing to drive the agility and innovation companies need to remain competitive. It features on-the-fly scaling, flexible clustering options, and the capability to hold several petabytes of information.

What I Learned at AWS re:Invent 2021

Last week, our friends at Amazon hosted the 10th annual AWS re:Invent conference at the always-exciting Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. The ChaosSearch team was out in full post-Covid force and felt the incredible energy and enthusiasm as the conference returned to an in-person format for the first time since 2019. Our team of Chaosians stayed busy in the buzzing expo hall and attending conference talks so we could be first to hear about every new AWS service announcement, feature launch, and innovation.

Delivering High Performance for Cloudera Data Platform Operational Database (HBase) When Using S3

CDP Operational Database (COD) is a real-time auto-scaling operational database powered by Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix. It is one of the main Data Services that runs on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud. You can access COD right from your CDP console. With COD, application developers can now leverage the power of HBase and Phoenix without the overheads related to deployment and management.

Too many Cloud Testing Tools are Distracting and Addictive. Here's How to Fix It.

In this new work from home era, a lot of companies have moved more and more towards online services and new tools to keep their productivity at similar levels as before. It’s harder and harder to keep track of all the tools and services you use on a regular basis to test all your websites and API services of your business. Here at LoadFocus it gets easier and easier to make use of the integrated testing services we provide as of today.

IT Professionals Reveal Cloud Data Platform Highs and Lows of 2021

Wondering whether your struggles with the data lake, cloud data platform, or analytics at large are typical? Are you ahead or behind the curve? ChaosSearch recently commissioned a survey to understand the advantages and setbacks organizations face today in these areas, and we’re excited to share a sneak peek of the results. To uncover more detailed findings from our research, sign up to receive the full report once it’s available here.