Big Data / Data Warehousing + Introduction to Containers

The October meeting will feature two topics that are incredibly important - the first more advanced and the second more introductory.

Talk # 1 (more advanced)
Data Vault 2.0: Big Data meets Data Warehousing

Speaker: Dean Hallman, the Founder & CTO of WireSoft

Abstract:
Before the rise of Big Data, the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) reigned supreme in Business Intelligence architecture. However, modern data rates and volumes often outstripped the capacity of traditional Data Warehousing tools and modeling strategies to keep pace. Many companies turned to unstructured Data Lakes as an means of keeping up with the influx. Consequently, they often discovered that the road from Data Lake to Business Intelligence was filled with its own steep challenges. As a result, any savings in terms of throughput and storage costs was more than offset by the high extraction and analytics costs of turning an unstructured Data Lake into an insights-yielding asset.

Enter Data Vault 2.0, the Enterprise Data Warehouse reimagined to meet today’s data rate, volume and analytics demands. Not strictly an alternative to Data Lakes, Data Vault can easily integrate with your Data Lake and Big Data ingestion pipelines and analytics toolchain. This talk will introduce the fundamental concepts and advantages of Data Vault 2.0, and explain its approach to modeling data around your business domain’s “Hubs”, “Links” and “Satellites”. Finally, the talk will examine a real case study of building a Data Vault, including some challenges and drawbacks we encountered and addressed along the way.

Talk #2 (more introductory)
An Introduction to Containers

Speaker: Colin Griffin, Chief Engineer at Krumware.

Abstract:
Developing, shipping, and maintaining a product can all be entirely different animals. Containers have changed the way we think about and perform all three. We will take a dive into the world of containers, and learn how they can help us deliver great products.

Both speakers are seasoned professionals and both will be speaking at All Things Open later this month in Raleigh.
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Doors open at 6:00 pm, programming starts at approximately 6:30 pm ET.

Food and beverages will be served, great swag will be available, as always.