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Experiences from TechEd 2020 Online
TechEd is a purely Czech, professional conference where IT experts share information about what’s new in the world of IT, and this was their 18th annual event.
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Code quality matters
In the modern age of big data, data science solutions are entering ever new fields. The market is literally over-saturated with start-ups, which daily generate new and modern ideas on how to extract even more from data. So, it’s surprising that ML hasn’t taken over the business of all major corporations yet, and it’s even harder to understand how…
Data Platform for Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is a cryptic concept under which different people imagine different things. Most would agree that digital transformation is associated with new technologies and their use for new types of services, products and processes. The term digital transformation has a long history. Google lists 1,450…
Doing a master’s thesis at work: Killing two birds with one stone
As we already mentioned in a previous blog article, as part of our long-term cooperation with universities, we help students with their final theses and offer them real experience working on our projects. This was the case with Šárka, who Ondřej…
Data-driven incident handling
How to use data to shift your business from reactive to proactive It is beyond any doubt that financial organizations have to focus on improving their processes for handling incidents. Whether we are talking about fraud, risk management or regular operations, every slowdown…
Career Suicide by Integrated Information Theory
I guess everyone expects that all seasoned professionals know absolutely everything about their craft. (And you may even think that these professionals are supposed to have some hidden secrets). Since what I do for a living is help others manage their data—my product…
Peek Into the Software Kitchen With Us: How to Survive as a Team Leader
Recently, we took another peek into our Software kitchen. As we have already received feedback from more than 30 participants, we can share their general impressions with you. Due to COVID-19 measures and to ensure the safety of all participants, we decided to…
Spark AI Summit – what is new in the world of big data?
Before we dive into releases, I want to highlight one fact. Python is the most used language in the Databricks platform. If you have been working in big data for some time, you have probably had this discussion at least once. Scala/Java or Python? Which language should I choose for my big data processing? …
Nowadays, everybody is “senior”. But do the results correspond?
It has been ten years since I joined Profinit as a junior Java developer. Because of the work I had done while studying at the Czech Technical University Faculty of Electrical Engineering, I already had four years of work experience under my belt at…
7 tips on how to fix a large amount of data in Hadoop
I have been working on an international big data project. The cluster is huge, with TBs of memory and hundreds of CPUs – another great experience in the real world of big data and parallel computing for our team. In this short article, I’d…