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Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.
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Optimizing pipelines for descriptive versus analytical workloads

Data analytics is categorized into four different types:

  • Descriptive Analytics: The type of analytics that deals with the analysis of what happened and when it happened. Most BI reports, such as sales reports and trip reports, that display current and historical data points fall under this category. The analytics tasks would usually be counts, aggregates, filters, and so on.
  • Diagnostic Analytics: This type of analytics also does the why part, along with the what and when. Examples include Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Apart from identifying what happened, we also delve deeper into the logs or metrics to identify why something happened. For example, you could be looking at why a certain cab route is having a dip in revenue, or why a particular type of VM is failing sooner than others by looking into the load on those machines.
  • Predictive Analytics: As the name suggests, this type of analytics refers to the...
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Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.
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