Hadoop helped propel the data revolution by bringing it agility and versatility, but now it has become a huge machine. It continues to increase in complexity, allowing lightweight alternatives to challenge it. And chasing a Hadoop solution is becoming more like chasing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). Don’t let the old habits come back. Be sure to embrace the […]
In the midst of the market buzz around the Internet of Things, Big Data, the Cloud, and Deep learning (AI), it’s become difficult to pinpoint the key paradigm shift taking place: convergence. To understand this shift, we should consider all four contributing phenomena together, rather than separately. IoT, Big Data, the Cloud, and AI are defining our future, just[…]
Five years ago, catching a cab to the airport meant hailing one on the corner or scheduling a black car service. When you arrived at your destination, maybe you rented a car and drove to your hotel, where you made a reservation weeks in advance. Today, you call two Ubers and book a room instantly through Airbnb,[…]
The future has arrived. While to many machine learning and artificial intelligence might sound like technologies of the future, the truth of the matter is that ML and AI are already everywhere. These technologies can be found in autonomous cars and the search engines that recommend our next e-commerce purchases. They also play a role in the way[…]