By Steven Xi, Siyu Jia The zeal for Big Data among the data infra and analytics industry has put distributed systems into the spotlight as a great breakthrough, but unfortunately left the middle and long-tail market underserved. Enterprise data warehouses that cost hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of dollars…

by Steven Xi, Siyu Jia Compute cost has always been a concern of cloud adoption and burden for the enterprises that consume a lot of cloud resources, such as those that conduct workload-heavy simulation, graphics rendering and especially High Performance Computing. …

by Steven Xi, Siyu Jia, Cindy Le Processing and storing massive data in real time is hard, especially with the need to restore data integrity and velocity. Building reliable and efficient data streaming pipelines has become mission-critical and a bottleneck for many organizations. Since Kafka is a popular open-source data…