Pushing the limits of scale/performance for enterprise-wide analytics: A fire-side chat with Akamai
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With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — Akamai makes it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while keeping experiences closer to users and threats farther away. So when it was time to scale it’s legacy Hadoop-like infrastructure reaching its capacity limits, while keeping their global operations running uninterrupted, Akamai partnered with Microsoft and Databricks to migrate to Azure Databricks. Connect with us: Website: https://databricks.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc Twitter: https://twitter.com/databricks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc/
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