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MLOps
6 May 2026 6 min

Experiment Tracking: MLflow vs Weights & Biases

MLflow and Weights & Biases are the two most common ways to track machine learning experiments. This comparison logs the same runs to both with almost identical code, shows where each keeps the data, and sets out the real differences: hosting, licence, collaboration, hyperparameter search and lock-in.

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AWS
6 May 2026 6 min

Amazon MSK: Managed Kafka on AWS

Amazon MSK runs open-source Apache Kafka for you on AWS. This guide explains what the service manages and what remains your job, Provisioned clusters with Standard or Express brokers versus Serverless, MSK Connect and Replicator, authentication choices, tiered storage, and how to choose between MSK and Kinesis.

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AWS
6 May 2026 8 min

Redshift Performance Tuning: Distribution and Sort Keys

Redshift performance tuning starts with two table properties: how rows are distributed across slices and how they are sorted on disk. This guide explains the four distribution styles and the sort key options, simulates block skipping and slice skew on 2.96 million real rows, and shows when AUTO is the right answer.

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Data Science
6 May 2026 7 min

Kaggle for Beginners: How to Start and Win Medals

Kaggle for beginners: how competitions, leaderboards and the progression tiers work, a realistic first month, the workflow strong competitors follow, and a simulation showing why a public leaderboard can rank a worse model higher, so you learn which score gaps to trust before chasing your first medal.

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Data Analytics
6 May 2026 5 min

Self-Service Analytics: Empowering Business Teams

How to make self-service analytics work: the three ways organisations divide ownership of data and reports, why managed self-service is the usual goal, the foundations it needs, from certified data to shared metric definitions, warning signs of report sprawl, how to measure success, and how the analyst's role changes.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 5 min

Real-Time Analytics: Architecture and Tools

How real-time analytics systems are built: the four layers of ingestion, stream processing, serving and consumption, the tools at each layer including Kafka, Spark, Flink and real-time OLAP databases such as Druid, Pinot and ClickHouse, latency budgets, common architectures, and the pitfalls that raise costs.

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