Tech Tips Archives

How to Stop Self-Service BI from Eating Away at Your Snowflake Credits

by Rob Screene | Feb 15, 2022 | BlogPosts, Snowflake, Tech Tips

Snowflake is the best cloud data platform around. So why do businesses feel like they’re spending too much for what they’re getting? Snowflake is supposed to make data valuable, not a costly liability. So what’s the problem? Sub-optimal queries. It could...

How to Persist data from a Docker Container Running on an AWS EC2 instance

by William Holtam | Nov 9, 2020 | AWS, BlogPosts, Tech Tips

Sometimes when running an application; you want to persist data. A common use-case for this is as a redundancy measure so that if the application goes down, no data currently being processed by the application is lost. In this example I will persist data from a...

How to load data into ThoughtSpot 4x faster with Talend

by Paul Johnson | Nov 24, 2017 | BlogPosts, Talend, Tech Tips, ThoughtSpot

What is ThoughtSpot? ThoughtSpot is a new breed of search engine designed for data analytics. As you type, ThoughtSpot instantly calculates answers and presents the best visualization for your search. Anyone can use ThoughtSpot with zero training to ask questions,...

Using a Talend ESB Route to send messages to multiple endpoints

by Duncan Holloway | Nov 24, 2016 | BlogPosts, Talend, Tech Tips

Using the cMulticast component it is possible to route a message to multiple endpoints. This is useful if you have, for example, Supplier records that need updating on multiple systems. In the example below, messages are taken from a JMS queue using a cJMS component,...

How Talend easily converts job execution engines

by Amine Hallam | Aug 30, 2016 | BlogPosts, Talend, Tech Tips

One of the great functionalities of Talend is the flexibility of developments. There is the additional fact that Talend is quick off the mark to adopt the latest Big Data technologies, specifically open source Apache projects (such as MapReduce, Spark). Talend away...

Talend Basics: Common Errors and Troubleshooting

by Tom Saunders | Aug 23, 2016 | BlogPosts, Talend, Tech Tips

When building and testing talend jobs there are a number of errors that come up time and time again. For anyone experienced with Talend, these errors are easy to interpret and fix. However, they can be more frustrating for a beginner. Here are some basic...