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June 28, 2019

Navigating Data Marts, Lakes, Warehouses and Vaults

Throughout the past several years, everyone has been talking about big data. Businesses looking to be more data-driven have to incorporate a whole range of different infrastructures. However, it can be difficult to understand where your data lakes and warehouses meet, and why you might even need a data vault.

Quite simply, each of these concepts boils down to finding ways to ingest and manage your data in an effective way for today's data analytics driven decision-making. Below is a breakdown of the options, how they relate and what they are used for.

June 13, 2019

Migrating to the Cloud? Here’s Why Automation is Essential

Nearly 60 percent of North American enterprises now rely on cloud platforms, according to a recent Forrester survey. The benefits of cloud are well known, but the question marks that remain have left a significant number of organizations hesitant to make the jump.

Several factors can slow down a company’s decision to adopt the cloud. Many organizations have the pre-conceived notions that cloud adoption comes with security risks and threats of data leakage. In reality, on-premise is probably just as risky than those fronts.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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In the previous edition of the YotG newsletter, the wave of Generative AI hype was probably at its all-time high. Today, while Generative AI is still talked about and trialed, the hype is subsiding. Skepticism is settling in, and for good reason. Repor... […]
Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]