Inside Fortnite’s Massive Data Analytics Pipeline

With 125 million players around the world, Fortnite has set a new standard of success for massively multi-player games. But pulling together all the servers, databases, and data pipelines to manage 92 million events per Read more…

Inside the Analytic Transformation of Pitney Bowes

Who is Pitney Bowes? For some, the 96-year-old company is synonymous with 20th century technology, like mailing machines and postage meters. But after Tuesday's launch of its new Commerce Cloud, it's clear the company se Read more…

White-Glove Hadoop Cloud Service Launched by Altiscale

Hadoop users that need more handholding than Amazon can provide may want to check out the new Hadoop as a Service (HaaS) offering launched today by Altiscale. Founded by veteran technologists from Yahoo and AltaVista, the company intends to provide a high-touch experience for running and--more importantly--optimizing production Hadoop workloads in a private cloud. Read more…

Keeping Tabs on Amazon EMR Performance

The Hadoop architecture may appear simple at first, but it's deceptively complex and may lull you into a false sense of security as you try to scale your cluster. If you run Hadoop on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, there are a number of potentially wallet-draining performance issues to keep an eye on. This week, Compuware launched an Amazon-resident solution to help prevent EMR jobs from running amok. Read more…