Companies have come to realize of late that the real value of their business is data. There has been a rush to create huge Data Lakes to store the enormous amounts of data available inside each company.
We don’t usually like to boast but on this one we can’t hold back. As of 17 February 2017, a huge (but just symbolic) milestone was reached: more than 1000 automated releases performed by our Jenkins installation, from each continuous delivery pipeline.
This is the first part of a story, a story about how important it is to have a reliable release and deployment process.
This post is about an exciting journey that starts with a problem and ends with a solution. One of the top banks in Europe came to us with a request: they needed a better profiling system.
It is a common truism in Human Resources that labor turnover is generally bad news for a given company and that management must take precautionary measures to reduce it, or at least to keep it under control.
Amongst all the Big Data technology madness, security seems to be an afterthought at best. When one talks about Big Data technologies and security, they are usually referring to the integration of these technologies with Kerberos.
After the resounding success of the first article on recommender systems, Álvaro Santos is back with some further insight into creating a recommender system. Coming soon: A follow-up Meetup in Madrid to go even further into this exciting topic. Stay tuned!
On the 17th and 18th of November, I attended the Big Data Spain conference. It was my first time attending this type of events, and it was an excellent opportunity to meet experts in the fields and attend high-quality talks.