Fighting Advanced Persistent Security Threats with Anomaly Detection: Sometimes More is More

Does this sound disturbing?  You try to reach a particular website only to find the site is down. But it’s…

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Event Time in Apache Flink Stream Processing

In this week’s Whiteboard Walkthrough, Stephan Ewen, PMC member of Apache Flink and CTO of data Artisans, describes a valuable…

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Getting Past Preconceptions: How to Use Innovative Big Data Technologies

What can you learn from ordering a cup of coffee? Try asking for a cappuccino made with much less espresso…

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How Apache Kafka and MapR Streams Handle Topic Partitions

Streaming data can be used as a long-term auditable history when you choose a messaging system with persistence, but is…

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SQL Query on Mixed Schema Data Using Apache Drill

You may have heard this statement before:      Apache Drill does schema discovery on-the-fly. What does that mean, and why should…

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Beyond Real-time Data Applications – Whiteboard Walkthrough

In this week’s Whiteboard Walkthrough, Ellen Friedman, a consultant at MapR, talks about how to design a system to handle…

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Ideal Messaging Capabilities for Streaming Data

What capabilities should you look for in a messaging system when you design the architecture for a streaming data project?…

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Evolution of Big Data Storage: How to Support Real-time Analytics at Scale

Organizations embracing big data are ready to put data to work, including looking for ways to effectively analyze data from…

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What Will You Do in 2016? Apache Spark, Kafka, Drill and More

Let’s have some fun. It’s the start of a new year — we’re on the threshold of something new —…

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