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CDMs for Enterprise Data: Canonical Data Model Explained

On their own, enterprise applications and systems are not always straightforward. Writ large, they are complex, integrated environments, full of multiple data formats and structures. You spend a great deal of effort and time to define and maintain diverse data models among these integrated components. A Canonical Data Model helps reduce that burden significantly — by promoting a standard and consistent data model between connecting components. This article describes a few things to get you started.

E-Commerce and Log Management

As an e-commerce website owner you care about how your customers behave: why do they come to your website, which items or services are they most interested in, how much time do they spend on certain pages, and is their user experience above par? Also, it is very important to keep your website secure, as you can rest assured that no one wants to leave their payment details on an unsecured website.

One Technology That Makes Renewable Energy More Efficient

Time series data can provide insight into ways to make energy production and consumption more cost-effective and efficient. The year 2022 saw the impact that world events can have on global energy markets. The most drastic fluctuations affected fossil fuels, which led to greater discussion about the practicalities of renewable energy. Fortunately, the move toward increasing reliance on renewable energy remains a consistent trend.

Connect Apache Kafka to OpenSearch with Terraform

In this video, you will learn how to send data from Apache Kafka to OpenSearch using Terraform. We will take the help of Apache Kafka Connect and OpenSearch Sink Connector to get the data from Apache Kafka to OpenSearch. CHAPTERS ABOUT AIVEN Aiven’s cloud data platform helps your business reach its highest potential by making your data work for you. It provides fully managed open source data infrastructure on all major clouds, helping developers focus on what they do best: innovate and create without worrying about the limitations of technology.

7 Best Practices for Data Visualization

A look at best practices, no-code and low-code platforms you can use, common visualization types, criteria for good data visualization and more. Organizations regularly generate an overabundance of data that is essential for decision-making. Data visualizations play an important role in helping people understand complex data and observe patterns and trends over a period of time.

Social search in real time: Exploring Mastodon data with Apache Kafka and OpenSearch

In an earlier blog post we talked about how to stream data from the Mastodon timeline into an Apache Kafka® cluster. If you missed it, read it to learn how to connect to Mastodon and stream data into an Apache Kafka topic. This article assumes that you already have an Apache Kafka environment running with data in a topic that is called Mastodon.

What is data hygiene, and why is it important?

Data hygiene is a critical but often overlooked concept for businesses of all sizes. Think of any activity that involves the use and storage of data, like customer relationship management (CRM), marketing automation, customer service, or analytics; then add in trends like increasing regulations and customer expectations around privacy. Data hygiene needs to be on the top of your list when you’re managing customer relationships across multiple channels.

InfluxDB SQL Queries with Python

Recently InfluxData announced SQL support in InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx. Users can now use familiar SQL queries to explore and analyze their time series data. The SQL support was introduced along with the usage of Apache Arrow. Apache Arrow is an open source project used as the foundation of InfluxDB’s SQL support. Arrow provides the data representation, storage format, query processing, and network transport layers. Apache Flight SQL provides a method for interacting with Arrow via SQL.