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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

Uber’s DNA as an analytics company At its core, Uber’s business model is deceptively simple: connect a customer at point A to their destination at point B. With a few taps on a mobile device, riders request a ride; then, Uber’s algorithms work to match them with the nearest available driver and calculate the optimal price.

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How to Build a Performant Data Warehouse in Redshift

Sisense

This blog is intended to give an overview of the considerations you’ll want to make as you build your Redshift data warehouse to ensure you are getting the optimal performance. Redshift, like BigQuery and Snowflake, is a cloud-based distributed multi-parallel processing (MPP) database, built for big data sets and complex analytical workflows.