BIG DATA

Teads Teads is a video advertising marketplace, often ranked as the number 1 video platform in the world. Working with data-heavy videos must be supported by a powerful data infrastructure,...

The Amazon Redshift COPY command is the recommended way of moving data into Amazon Redshift. The COPY command takes advantage of the parallel architecture in Amazon Redshift to move data....

The 5 Type of Data Sources that Every Enterprise Should Think About In broad terms, we see five major categories of data sources: Production data : Data coming from core...

The Amazon Redshift Workload Manager (WLM) is critical to managing query performance. Amazon Redshift run queries in a queueing model. The default WLM configuration has a single queue with five...

Coursera Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer online courses. They started building their data architecture somewhere around 2013,...

Amazon Redshift is a distributed, shared-nothing database that scales horizontally across multiple nodes. Query execution time is very tightly correlated with: the # of rows and data a query processes....

Blinkist Blinkist transforms the big ideas from the world’s best nonfiction books into powerful little packs users can read or listen to in 15 minutes. At first, they started selling...

500px The whole data architecture at 500px is mainly based on two tools: Redshift – for data storage, and Periscope – for analytics, reporting, and visualization. From a customer-facing side,...

Remind Remind’s data engineering team strives to provide the whole company with access to the data they need, as big as 10 million daily events, and empower them to directly...