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New Applied ML Research: Meta-Learning & Structural Time Series
At Cloudera Fast Forward we work to make the recently possible useful. Our goal is to take the incredible data science and machine learning research developments we see emerging from academia and large industrial labs, and bridge the gap to…
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Why Veterans at Cloudera are Urging Us to Vote
With both the US election and Veterans Day right around the corner, veterans at Cloudera have been telling us their stories, including why they want us all to Make Time to Vote. The US has a long and evolving history…
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Data security vs usability: you can have it all
Growing up, were you ever told you can’t have it all? That you can’t eat all the snacks in one sitting? That you can’t watch the complete Back to the Future trilogy as well as study for your science exam…
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DELL/EMC taking the next step with PowerScale and ECS certification on CDP Private Cloud Base
Cloudera and Dell/EMC are continuing our long and successful partnership of developing shared storage solutions for analytic workloads running in hybrid cloud. Customer demand has always been the key driver of roadmap features on our platforms. Since the inception of…
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HBase Clusters Data Synchronization with HashTable/SyncTable tool
Replication (covered in this previous blog article) has been released for a while and is among the most used features of Apache HBase. Having clusters replicating data with different peers is a very common deployment, whether as a DR strategy…
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Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Cloudera: Our First Steps
Cloudera recently appointed its first-ever Chief Diversity Officer, Sarah Shin. To maintain transparency about our diversity and inclusion (D&I) progress, we’ve asked her to share her vision for Cloudera’s future, and the initial steps she’s taking to help us get…
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Amazon Prime Day 2020 – Powered by AWS
Tipped off by a colleague in Denmark, I bought the LEGO Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, which turned out to be a Prime Day best-seller! As I like to do every year, I would like to share a few of the…
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Introducing Amazon SNS FIFO – First-In-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging
When designing a distributed software architecture, it is important to define how services exchange information. For example, the use of asynchronous communication decouples components and simplifies scaling, reducing the impact of changes and making it easier to release new features….
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Re-thinking The Insurance Industry In Real-Time To Cope With Pandemic-scale Disruption
The Insurance industry is in uncharted waters and COVID-19 has taken us where no algorithm has gone before. Today’s models, norms, and averages are being re-written on the fly, with insurers forced to cope with the inevitable conflict between old…
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Public Preview – AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
It took me a while to figure out what observability was all about. A year or two I asked around and my colleagues told me that I needed to follow Charity Majors and to read her blog (done, and done)….
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