Technology - Treasure Data Blog - Part 8

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The Data Drive Podcast, Episode 1: Ian Johnson and D3.js

The best way for humans to comprehend data and its implications is by visualizing it. This is easier said than done; as a core aspect of visual communication, data visualization is both art and science. One nee...

Meetup: State of the art R Programming from the Bay Area R Users Group

Amazon Web Services EC2 is an extremely powerful cloud computing technology. In particular, R3.8xlarge instance is recommended by Amazon for “high performance databases, distributed memory caches, in-memory analytics, genome assembly and analysis, Microsoft SharePoint, and other enterprise applica...

Rolling Retention Done Right in SQL

SaaS's Most Important Metric: Retention If you are a product manager or in a growth role at a SaaS company, rolling retention (also called cohort analysis) is a key metric to monitor your growth. It's so important that every analytics service worth their salt (Google Analytics, Mixpanel,...

Routing Data from Docker to Prometheus Server via Fluentd

Prometheus could be similarly configured on Google Cloud Platform, CoreOS or even Kubernetes. Later, we’ll also query Prometheus for that data....

Webinar sum-up: Introducing the new Treasure Data Console

Compared to when we began, we have a lot more users and data ingested. So, if you’ve seen the spinning wheel lately, it was because the old console simply wasn’t optimized for the large volume of data we have today. We’ve added two things to......

Video: Managing Infrastructure vs. Driving Business Results at Wish

Wish, the “shopping mall in your pocket” startup that boasts a three billion dollar valuation, takes data very, very seriously. According to Wish Data Engineer Samson Hu, building a great e-commerce recommendation engine is a data infrastructure problem. In this short video, he talks about how...

Meetup: Logging & Docker in Production

On June 16, TD hosted a meetup focusing on Logging and Docker in production. With around 65 enthusiastic attendees, and two of the best known authorities speaking on their respective technologies, Docker and......

New Treasure Data Console in Public Beta

All companies have data, but not all companies are data-driven. Being data-driven means looking at data before you make decisions. For this to happen, every decider in your company needs fast, on-demand access to fresh data......

Fluentd, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform – A Few Recipes for Streaming Logging

Actually, it’s that very last point that lends a crucial understanding to how fit is configured. It’s all about how we handle the different elements of the stream: where we get that data from, what we do wi...

Redshift v. BigQuery: Similarities, Differences and the Serverless Future?

In broad strokes, both BigQuery and Redshift are cloud data warehousing services. Honestly, the similarities are greater than the differences, and if you are looking to graduate from MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server for analytics or moving away from expensive perpetual license MPP databases, you can't re...

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