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Unifying Cross-region Access in the Cloud at Expedia Group — The Path Toward Data Mesh in the Brand World

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This article shares the data platform practice at Expedia to federate cross-region data lakes spanning multiple geographic regions in the cloud. 1. Background Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) is an American online travel shopping company for consumer and small business travel. Expedia powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform, with industry-leading technology solutions to … Continued

Spark + Alluxio Overview | Pair Spark with Alluxio to Modernize Your Data Platform

By bringing Alluxio together with Spark, you can modernize your data platform in a scalable, agile, and cost-effective way.  In this post, we provide an overview of the Spark + Alluxio stack. We explain the architecture, discuss real-world examples, describe deployment models, and showcase performance and cost benchmarking.

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Advancing GPU Analytics with RAPIDS Accelerator for Spark and Alluxio

RAPIDS is a set of open source libraries enabling GPU aware scheduling and memory representation for analytics and AI. Spark 3.0 uses RAPIDS for GPU computing to accelerate various jobs including SQL and DataFrame. With compute acceleration from massive parallelism on GPUs, there is a need for accelerating data access and this is what Alluxio enables for compute in any cloud. In this talk, you will learn how to use Alluxio and Spark with RAPIDS Accelerator on NVIDIA GPUs without any application changes.

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