This is the second part of my blog series on CI/CD best practices. For those of you who are new to this blog, please refer to Part 1 of the same series and for those who want to see the first 10 best practices. Also, I want to give a big thank you for all the support and feedback! In my last blog, we saw the first ten best practices when working with Continuous integration. In this blog, I want to touch on some more best practices. So, with that, let’s jump right in!

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In this blog, I want to highlight some of the best practices that I’ve come across as I've implemented continuous integration with Talend. For those of you who are new to CI/CD please go through the part 1 and part 2 of my previous blogs on ‘Continuous Integration and workflows with Talend and Jenkins’. This blog would also introduce you to some basic guidance on how to implement and maintain a CI/CD system. These recommendations will help in improving the effectiveness of CI/CD.

Let’s be honest, the ‘Data Lake’ is one of the latest buzz-words everyone is talking about. Like many buzzwords, few really know how to explain what it is, what it is supposed to do, and/or how to design and build one. As pervasive as they appear to be, you may be surprised to learn that Gartner predicts that only 15% of Data Lake projects make it into production. Forrester predicts that 33% of Enterprises will take their attempted Data Lake projects off life-support.

Redwood City, CA and London - October 16, 2018 - Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced a major update to Talend Data Fabric, the company’s unified data platform for data integration across complex, multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

Talend Fall ’18 is here! We’ve released a big update to the Talend platform this time around including support for APIs, as well as new big data and serverless capabilities. You will see blogs from my colleagues to highlight those major new product and features introductions. On my side, I’ve been working passionately to introduce Talend Data Catalog, which I believe has the potential to change the way data is consumed and managed within our enterprise.

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