Perhaps your C-suite is already a bit crowded. The typical hierarchy will include a CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CMO, CIO, and a few more. Adding another position may not be terribly appealing, but there is one C-suite role every company should consider—chief data and analytics officer (CDO or CDAO).
Bloomreach Engagement, an omnichannel marketing automation product, now integrates with BigQuery, providing hyper-personalized customer experiences.
Apache Kafka® supports incredibly high throughput. It’s been known for feats like supporting 20 million orders per hour to get COVID tests out to US citizens during the pandemic. Kafka's approach to partitioning topics helps achieve this level of scalability. Topic partitions are the main "unit of parallelism" in Kafka. What’s a unit of parallelism? It’s like having multiple cashiers in the same store instead of one.
One of my favorite analogies is that data is the lifeblood of the business. Before you roll your eyes at me (I see it now), hear me out. At your annual physical, when you get your blood work done, think of how much information is uncovered about your overall health from a tiny vial of your blood. From those 10 CCs they extract comes back pages of information regarding your cell counts, glucose, cholesterol, and other information.
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