Tag: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

In the second part of this series we will develop a pipeline to transform messages from “data” Pub/Sub topic with the ability to control the process via “control” topic. How to pass effectively non-immutable input into DoFn, is not obvious,…

In this 3-part series I’ll show you how to build and run Apache Beam pipelines using Java API in Scala. In the first part we will develop the simplest streaming pipeline that reads jsons from Google Cloud Pub/Sub, convert them…

Having attended Serverlessconf NYC a few weeks ago, and given my undying excitement around all things serverless, lately, I’ve been quite entrenched in the numerous possibilities of serverless architectures. Also, I’ve been itching to build something, as I haven’t had…

In order for a retailer improve their in-store revenues and overall customer experience, they need to deeply understand the shopping habits of their customers and how merchandise placement in stores influences buying behaviour. This  major global retailer needed to capture…

In a previous post titled Machine Learning on the cloud, we examined in plain language what is machine learning, what is the cloud, and the merits of leveraging cloud resources for machine learning practice. In this post, we introduce the…

What is Machine Learning? Machine learning is an assortment of tools and techniques for predicting outcomes and classifying events, based on a set of interactions between variables (also referred to as features or attributes) belonging to a particular data set….

Ottawa, ON – June 15, 2017 – Pythian, a global IT services company that helps businesses adopt technologies to better compete, announced today that Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger, has selected Pythian to help them move their mission-critical IT infrastructure for…

Today on the show we are talking to John Laham about the Google Cloud Next Conference which took place earlier this month in San Francisco. John currently works at Pythian as a Cloud Solution Architect focusing primarily on the Google…

Pythian to showcase cloud-based analytics and data solutions at Google NEXT Ottawa, ON – March 2, 2017 – Pythian, a 400-person global technology services company that helps businesses adopt disruptive technologies to better compete, announced today that it has achieved…

Find out if Google BigQuery is the right tool for what you want to do and how to migrate your data into it.