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Author: Taylor Emma

A senior editor for The Mars that left the company to join the team of SenseCentral as a news editor and content creator. An artist by nature who enjoys video games, guitars, action figures, cooking, painting, drawing and good music.

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External Data Storage

We can use and integrate external data storage, relational and non-relational databases to expose the data to transactional…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Tez

It runs on top of YARN. It’s an alternative to MapReduce. In fact, we can configure some of…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Mesos

It’s an alternative to YARN, yet it’s still different. It’s used by Twitter, not directly associated with Hadoop,…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Hadoop

This article is not a technical deep dive. It’s rather a quick glimpse over what tools are available…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Optimizing Our Puppeteer Script

The general idea is to not let the headless browser do any extra work. This might include loading…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Setup Headless Chrome and Puppeteer

I’d recommend installing Puppeteer with npm, as it’ll also include the stable up-to-date Chromium version that is guaranteed to…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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The Snowball Effect

Many of the files contained important, highly useful information. The business decided to group the files using a…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Your Business Client Is the Key

Too often, many technical organizations have absolutely no business strategy when it comes to SharePoint. They simply have…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Does This Sound Familiar?

Over the past nine years, I have observed that the uses of SharePoint at most companies come in…

August 13, 2021 · Taylor Emma