“It’s a great time to be an engineer.”

Information retrieval and search engineering are becoming more intertwined with machine learning and natural language processing, leading to a wealth of work to be done in the field.

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“Everybody that sees SQL thinks its ugly and dirty and they want to try and rewrite it to be better. There’s a bazillion attempts to do this - I’ve tried it several times myself. But somehow, everybody always comes back to SQL.”

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“My bet is that there is going to be a big shift towards streaming technologies in the future.”

Apache Flink is an open-source framework for distributed stream and batch data processing.

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“There’s not enough data scientists out there, and every company wants them to do everything. So, you really have to focus on ‘How can I be most impactful with the limited time and resources I have?’ ”

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“If you have an architecture where you’re trying to periodically trying to dump from one system to the other and synchronize, you can simplify your life quite a bit by just putting your data in this storage system called Kudu.”

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“There are a lot more people who have the problem that Hadoop solves than there are people using Hadoop.”

Pachyderm is a containerized data analytics platform that seeks to replace Hadoop.

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"A lot of data science teams - if you ask them what their ten most important questions are... a lot of people can't even come up with those."

Many companies find themselves drowning in data. The quantity of data matters far less than the right questions in the pursuit of actionable insights.

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Data science is saving and improving lives by leveraging sensor data and machine learning. Pivotal makes software platforms and database products to enable enterprises to make use of their data.

Sarah Aerni is principal data scientist at Pivotal.

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Streaming pipelines and in-memory analytics are difficult to support with old database systems. VoltDB provides streaming analytics with transactions.     Questions How does VoltDB exemplify Michael Stonebraker’s thesis that one size does not fit all? What is the difference between OLTP and Streaming? How does VoltDB serve the common Zookeeper-Kafka-Storm-Cassandra stack? What trends and

Graph databases use graph structures for semantic queries. Ryan Boyd is a developer advocate for Neo4j, an open-source graph database. Questions Why does Monsanto use graph databases? In a social network graph, how would you query for “people you may know”? What CAP tradeoffs does Neo4j make? Why isn’t BASE good enough? Links Hadoop and Graph