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Data teams are seeking change data capture solutions for faster, more efficient analytics.

Data Talks fills a gap in the sports market by giving brands the data they need to truly understand their customers. But when your platform is responsible for continued ticket, merchandise, and sponsorship revenue, it needs to deliver insights fast. Here’s how Data Talks delivers data quickly with a rapid insights platform powered by Snowflake. From football fans filling out stadiums to baseball followers streaming every game, few customers are as avid and loyal as sports fans.

A modern data infrastructure is essential for retailers looking to stay competitive today. Companies are abandoning more traditional, on-premises IT infrastructures and moving to more centralized “as a service” (XaaS) models of delivery enabled by cloud technologies, according to McKinsey. Aging on-premises infrastructures are unable to meet demands for agility and innovation, eating up too much time and too many resources for teams trying to maintain them.

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.