Treasure Data Blog - Part 56

February 12, 2013

The Safe Triumvirate of Visualization, In-faux-graphics and All That

Over at 37Signal's Signal v. Noise, Noah Lorang recently cautioned against the recent infatuation with "creative" visualization techniques. He writes that these new visualization techniques are a mixed bag, and while some are truly innovative and help us understand our data better, many are not; hen...

December 12, 2012

Move Fast, Add Value: Why Hadoop-Veteran Viki Uses Treasure Data

Over the past year, we’ve done a lot to be proud of. We built a high performance, Hadoop-based data analytics platform from scratch. For next-generation ETL and real-time data collection, we authored td-agent and open-sourced it as......

December 12, 2012

Attack of the Hadoop Hybrids

As if IBM and EMC crashing the Hadoop party wasn't strange enough, now it seems that every data warehousing, database and appliance vendor has a Hadoop co-existence story and, in many cases, a hybrid architecture that they claim provides a best of both worlds solution to data warehousing / big data ...

November 20, 2012

Data Warehousing or Big Data -What’s in a Name?

There is a clever article in this week's Information Week entitled Big Data Debate: End Near For Data Warehousing? The article asks a series of questions that can be reduced to “Will Hadoop supplant the enterprise data warehouse and relegate relational databases to data-mart roles?” This is cert...

November 13, 2012

Fluentd + Hadoop: Instant Big Data Collection

Many companies choose Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) for big data storage. Until recently, however, the only API interface was Java. This changed with the new WebHDFS interface, which allows users to interact with HDFS via......

October 30, 2012

CIOs say BI, Mobility and Cloud are Top Priorities

Every year Gartner produces one of the definitive surveys of IT priorities based on input from CIOs around the world. It is usually one of the most influential and most quoted surveys and this year's survey will be no exception. According to the latest published survey (September 2012), CIOs rated ...

October 23, 2012

Good Customer Support Pays Big (Data) Dividends

At 500 words, the email felt long. Also, I read it on my 4-inch iPhone screen, scrolling multiple times before reaching his signature at the bottom of the message. It also didn’t help it was at 9PM on a Saturday after a hearty dinner......

October 16, 2012

Sorry Guys It’s Not Just About Big Data

McKinsey christened it, Forbes is writing about it, the Harvard Business Review just devoted 22 pages to it and the tech press is alive with it – “it” is big data of course. Treasure Data grew up with big data, distributed storage and processing architectures and handling thousands of concurre...

September 18, 2012

Cookpad Case Study

Cookpad.com (TYO:2193) is Japan's No.1 recipe website. With more than fifteen million users and one million online recipes, Cookpad.com dominates the market of recipe search and sharing. In fact, according to Cookpad.com's internal research, 50% of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s use Cookpad.com...

September 5, 2012

Takeaways from the Kafka Talk at AirBnB: the Power of Structured Data and the Myth of “Exactly Once”

The talk was packed. With almost twice as many attendees as there were seats, it was obvious Kafka is gaining serious traction among Bay Area start-ups. Two topics from the talk were especially illuminating from my perspective. (more…)...

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