StarSnow: HTTP Client for Snowflake SQL

Snowflake is an extremely SQL-friendly database: you can ingest, transform, and access your structured and semi-structured data directly from your SQL code. However, as a cloud-only data platform, it…

Data Visualization

Monitoring with JMX: How to Integrate Tableau Server with InfluxDB

Getting JMX metrics with jmxtrans from Tableau Server, storing in InfluxDB and accessing it in Grafana

Data Engineering

Monitor your infrastructure with InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes

Monitoring your infrastructure and applications is a must-have if you play your game seriously. Overseeing your entire landscape, running servers, cloud spends, VMs, containers, and the applications…

Data Engineering

Getting through a challenging age with data - Starschema Blog - Medium

Following the implosion of the US housing bubble, when the mid-2000s Great Recession began to hit markets worldwide, many enterprises found themselves in dire straits. In the ensuing crisis…

Data Engineering

Deploying TabPy in Enterprise: Scaling and Hardening in Kubernetes

There are so many tutorials out in the wild about how to take an application, containerize it and run it in your enterprise’s on-prem/public cloud securely, but hey, this will be yet another one…

Data Engineering

Mining your Tableau logs with Apache Drill - Starschema Blog - Medium

Tableau Server and Desktop logs each and every action you perform. The log data is a gold mine for people eager to understand what is happening under the hood and why. However, there is no easy way…

Data Engineering

Text preprocessing in different languages for Natural Language Processing in Python

In the first part, I outlined text pre-processing principles based on a framework from an academic article. The underlying goal of all these techniques was to reduce text data dimensionality but…

Data Engineering

Scaling out Tableau Extracts — Building a distributed Tableau Hyper Cluster

Tableau Hyper Database (“Extract”) is a great engine; it’s one of the reasons people are obsessed with Tableau analytics. However, being a single node database server, it has its limits (performance…