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Published inJul 2022
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Anindita Mahapatra
Anindita Mahapatra
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Anindita Mahapatra

Anindita Mahapatra is a Solutions Architect at Databricks in the data and AI space helping clients across all industry verticals reap value from their data infrastructure investments. She teaches a data engineering and analytics course at Harvard University as part of their extension school program. She has extensive big data and Hadoop consulting experience from Thinkbig/Teradata prior to which she was managing development of algorithmic app discovery and promotion for both Nokia and Microsoft AppStores. She holds a Masters degree in Liberal Arts and Management from Harvard Extension School, a Masters in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India.
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Information is dynamic and constantly evolving, which is why success in business is based on how we make use of this continuously changing data.

The modern data platform is built on business-centric value chains rather than IT-centric coding pipelines. The focus is to provide insights faster by turning event streams into analytics-ready data. Stream processing naturally fits with time series data and supports the detection of patterns over time. For some scenarios, streaming is a must, for example – sensor data, advertisement data, server security logs, and clickstream data. In some others, it is not, but every batch job can be regarded as a streaming job with a longer trigger interval and because the dial is configurable, it can be tweaked to make it more real time in line with business demands without having to rewrite the pipeline.

In this chapter, we focused on stream processing for ingesting, processing, and storing data. In the next chapter, we will look...

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Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801814867

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Anindita Mahapatra

Anindita Mahapatra is a Solutions Architect at Databricks in the data and AI space helping clients across all industry verticals reap value from their data infrastructure investments. She teaches a data engineering and analytics course at Harvard University as part of their extension school program. She has extensive big data and Hadoop consulting experience from Thinkbig/Teradata prior to which she was managing development of algorithmic app discovery and promotion for both Nokia and Microsoft AppStores. She holds a Masters degree in Liberal Arts and Management from Harvard Extension School, a Masters in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India.
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