A New Milestone—Qubole’s [major] Release 54
|November 20, 2018
Today marks an important day for the whole Qubole community—customers, partners, and employees—as we update our environments with the latest major product release “R54.” In…
Shefali Aggarwal
Building Machine Learning Data Pipelines
|November 19, 2018
Machine Learning As a consumer of goods and services, you experience the results of Machine Learning (ML) whenever the institutions you rely on use ML…
Presto Performance for Ad Hoc Workloads on AWS Instance Types
|November 1, 2018
Public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP provide more than 100 types of instances each with different characteristics in memory, CPU, and storage optimizations,…
Why Companies Stumble at Delivering Access to Big Data
|October 30, 2018
This blog is the second installment in a two-part series about self-service access to data. Read the first post here. We all know the issue…
How to Increase Your Big Data Value with Apache Spark on Qubole
|October 23, 2018
If big data frameworks had a popularity contest, Apache Spark would be the attractive, trendy option everyone wants to be seen with. First developed at…
Using Scala with Qubole Spark to Serve 500 Million Personalized Emails Per Month
|October 17, 2018
The following is a recap from a Bellevue Artificial Intelligence Meetup event hosted by Qubole and held with Expedia on July 20th, 2018. The topics…
Machine Learning: Model Training, Evaluation, and Real-Time Scoring with XGBoost, Apache Spark, and Flask
|October 10, 2018
Have you ever wondered why you receive personalized promotions and offers in the mail from various retail and telecom giants? Many of these promotions are…
The Future of Big Data and Machine Learning Is Clear: It’s All on the Cloud
|October 8, 2018
Last week’s announcement that Cloudera and Hortonworks will merge to form a single entity speaks volumes about the state of the big data and Machine…
Reducing Big Data TCO on Azure with Qubole
|October 1, 2018
Many companies start their big data cloud journey on Azure by testing Microsoft’s native offering HDInsight (HDI). With data already in Blob Storage or Azure…
Qubole Brings Federated Queries to Microsoft Power BI with Presto
|September 19, 2018
Presto is a distributed ANSI SQL engine for processing big data ad hoc queries at tremendous speed and scale. The engine is used to run…
Iflix Distributes Video Streaming Online with Real-Time Analytics and Recommendations
|September 18, 2018
In a little over three years, iflix, the Malaysia-based OTT service, has become one of the world’s leading entertainment service providers for emerging markets. Today,…
Using RStudio to Train ML Models with Qubole Spark at Production Scale
|September 13, 2018
For many data scientists and statisticians, R is their tool of choice. It provides many useful abstractions, is easy to script in, and has tons…
