Hopefully you’ve been following along with our BigQuery Admin series and are well on your way to getting ramped up with BigQuery. Now that you’re equipped with the fundamentals, let's talk about something that’s relevant for all data professionals - data governance.

At Talend, we believe achieving healthier data is essential for business success. Safeguarding private data and staying in compliance with global regulations leads to healthier data by significantly decreasing risk – reducing the potential of having to pay dizzying fines or suffering a data breach that destroys customer relationships and trust.

An effective SEO strategy requires you to create unique and SEO-friendly articles and blog posts consistently. This is the only way for you to make your blog seem relevant in the eyes of the search engines. But creating unique content is not always easy. Every content writer has to face at least some degree of writer’s block at some point in their writing journey. If you are going through the same problem and you are feeling stuck, then using paraphrasing tools can be quite helpful for you.

Once upon an IT time, everything was a “point product,” a specific application designed to do a single job inside a desktop PC, server, storage array, network, or mobile device. Point solutions are still used every day in many enterprise systems, but as IT continues to evolve, the platform approach beats point solutions in almost every use case. A few years ago, there were several choices of data deduplication apps for storage, and now, it’s a standard function in every system.

We are roughly a decade removed from the beginnings of the modern machine learning (ML) platform, inspired largely by the growing ecosystem of open-source Python-based technologies for data scientists. It’s a good time for us to reflect back upon the progress that has been made, highlight the major problems enterprises have with existing ML platforms, and discuss what the next generation of platforms will be like.