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Grammarly Replaces its in-House Data Lake with Databricks Platform Using Medallion Architecture
Grammarly adopted the medallion architecture while migrating from their in-house data lake, storing Parquet files in AWS S3, to the Delta Lake lakehouse. The company created a new event store for over 6000 event types from 40 internal and external clients and, in the process, improved data quality and reduced the data-delivery time by 94%.
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Apache Flink 1.2 Released with Dynamic Rescaling, Security and Queryable State
Apache Flink 1.2 was announced and features dynamic rescaling, security, queryable state, and more. The release resolved 650 issues, maintains compatibility with all public APIs and ships with Apache Kafka 0.10 and Apache Mesos support. Flink’s dynamic rescaling allows one to change the parallelism of a streaming job or of an operator within the job.
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Mathieu Ripert on Instacart's Machine Learning Optimizations
Instacart is an online delivery service for groceries under one hour. Customers order the items on the website or using the mobile app, and a group of Instacart’s shoppers go to local stores, purchase the items and deliver them to the customer. InfoQ interviewed Mathieu Ripert, data scientist at Instacart, to find out how machine learning is leveraged to guarantee a better customer experience.
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Apache Spark 2.0 Technical Preview
Two years after the first release of Apache Spark, Databricks announced the technical preview of Apache Spark 2.0 , based on upstream branch 2.0.0-preview. The preview is not ready for production, neither in terms of stability nor API, but is a release intended to gather feedback from the community ahead of the general availability of the release.
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Real-time Data Analytics at Pinterest using MemSQL and Spark Streaming
Pinterest, the company behind the visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas, is using real-time data analytics for data-driven decision making purposes. It’s experimenting with MemSQL and Spark technologies for real-time user engagement across the globe.