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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. Instead, businesses make difficult tradeoffs as to what will and will not be recoverable should disaster strike.

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CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

CloudBank started their business writing custom software for private banks running mainframes. They operated as software consultants hired to work side by side with banks, helping them with project implementation and ensuring code best practices. CTO of CloudBank. CTO of CloudBank. CTO of CloudBank.

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Two Tales

LaunchDarkly

Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain and one of the original SREs at Google, shared two stories. Then he went on to talk about a zombie haunted pipeline that kept developers awake late into the night. .” – Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain. With a nod to Halloween, we cohosted an evening with Honeycomb.io