Adaltas is a team of consultants with a focus on Open Source, Big Data and distributed systems based in France, Canada and Morocco.
- Architecture, audit and digital transformation
- Cloud and on-premise operation
- Complex application and ingestion pipelines
- Efficient and reliable solutions delivery
Latest articles
Blockchain 101: Blockchains and Consensus Mechanisms
Categories: Learning, Infrastructure, Adaltas Summit 2021 | Tags: Consensus, Blockchain, Cryptography, Infrastructure
Cryptocurrencies are booming in 2021, with a market cap moving from 750 to more than 3,000 billion dollars. Let’s face it, this is mainly due to speculation. A lot of people involved do not have a…
Jan 18, 2022
GitOps in practice, deploy Kubernetes applications with ArgoCD
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Adaltas Summit 2021, Containers Orchestration | Tags: CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Git, IaC
GitOps is a set of practices to deploy applications using Git. Application definitions, configurations, and connectivity are to be stored in a version control software such as Git. Git then serves as…
Dec 16, 2021
JS monorepos in prod 6: CI/CD, continuous integration and deployment with Travis CI
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Monorepo, Node.js
Implementing continuous integration CI and continuous deployment (CD) on a monorepo is quite complex due to the diversity of multiple responsibilities between developers and the need to coordinate…
By David WORMS
Dec 6, 2021
Spring 2022 internship - building a Data Lab
Categories: Data Science, Learning | Tags: MongoDB, Kubernetes, Spark, OpenID Connect, Elasticsearch, Argo CD, PostgreSQL
Job Description Over the last few years, we developed the ability to use computers to process large amounts of data. The ecosystem evolved over a large offering of tools and libraries and the creation…
By David WORMS
Nov 24, 2021
CSV package for Node.js version 6
Categories: Node.js | Tags: Refactoring, Release and features, CSV, Data Engineering, File Format
Version 6 of the package for Node.js is released along its sub projects. Here are the latest versions: version , latest version was NPM version , latest version was NPM version , latest version…
By David WORMS
Nov 15, 2021
H2O in practice: a protocol combining AutoML with traditional modeling approaches
Categories: Data Science, Learning | Tags: On-premises, H2O, Automation, XGBoost, Cloud, Python, Machine Learning, Open source, MLOps
H20 comes with a lot of functionalities. The second part of the series H2O in practice proposes a protocol to combine AutoML modeling with traditional modeling and optimization approach. The objective…
Nov 12, 2021
Internship in Data Engineering
Categories: Learning, Front End | Tags: Monitoring, Metrics, Kubernetes, Delta Lake, Elasticsearch, Hive, Kafka, Streaming, IaC
Job Description Data is a valuable business asset. Some call it the new oil. The data engineer collects, transform and refine raw data into information that can be used by business analysts and data…
By David WORMS
Oct 25, 2021
Internship in Big Data infrastructure with TDP
Categories: Learning, Infrastructure | Tags: Hadoop, TDP, Cyber Security, Java, DevOps, IaC
Job Description Big Data and distributed computing is at Adaltas’ core. We support our partners in the deployment, maintenance and optimization of some of France’s largest clusters. Adaltas is also an…
By Daniel HARTY
Oct 25, 2021
Internship in Web Technologies
Categories: Learning, Front End | Tags: Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, LDAP, OAuth2, React.js, DevOps, GraphQL, Node.js, IaC
Job Description As part of its Big Data activities, Adaltas Academy is an information-sharing platform bringing together articles, training content, and a knowledge base. The users of the platform are…
By David WORMS
Oct 14, 2021
H2O in practice: a Data Scientist feedback
Categories: Data Science, Learning | Tags: On-premises, H2O, Automation, Cloud, Python, Machine Learning, Open source, MLOps
Automated machine learning (AutoML) platforms are gaining popularity and becoming a new important tool in the data scientists’ toolbox. A few months ago, I introduced H2O, an open-source platform for…
Sep 29, 2021
Adaltas Summit 2021, 2nd edition in corsica
Categories: Learning, Adaltas Summit 2021 | Tags: Azure, Deep Learning, Hadoop, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Terraform, Blockchain, Node.js
For its second edition, the whole Adaltas crew is gathering in Corsica for a whole week with 2 days dedicated to technology the 23rd and the 24th of september 2021. After a year and a half of sanitary…
By David WORMS
Sep 21, 2021
Running your Travis CI builds locally with Docker
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Unit tests, CI/CD, Tools, Bash, Node.js
Setting up the environment to run the tests on a CI/CD can take a few roundtrips between your host machine and the CI/CD running remotely. For every attempt, you’ll have to commit and publish your…
By David WORMS
Sep 6, 2021
Using Cloudera Deploy to install Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud
Categories: Big Data, Cloud Computing | Tags: Ansible, Vagrant, Cluster, Cloudera, CDP, Data Warehouse, IaC
Following our recent Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) overview, we cover how to deploy CDP private Cloud on you local infrastructure. It is entirely automated with the Ansible cookbooks published by…
Jul 23, 2021
An overview of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
Categories: Data Engineering, Big Data, Cloud Computing | Tags: Big Data, SDX, Data Hub, Cloud, Cloudera, CDH, CDP, Data Analytics, Data Warehouse, Data Lake
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is a cloud computing platform for businesses. It provides integrated and multifunctional self-service tools in order to analyze and centralize data. It brings security and…
Jul 19, 2021
Modern Python part 3: run a CI pipeline & publish your package to PiPy
Categories: DevOps & SRE | Tags: Unit tests, CI/CD, Release and features, Python, GitHub, Git
To propose a well-maintained and usable Python package to the open-source community or even inside your company, you are expected to accomplish a set of critical steps. First ensure that your code is…
By Faouzi BRAZA
Jun 28, 2021
Modern Python part 2: write unit tests & enforce Git commit conventions
Categories: DevOps & SRE | Tags: Unit tests, Python, pandas, Git
Good software engineering practices always bring a lot of long-term benefits. For example, writing unit tests permits you to maintain large codebases and ensures that a specific piece of your code…
By Faouzi BRAZA
Jun 24, 2021
Modern Python part 1: start a project with pyenv & poetry
Categories: DevOps & SRE | Tags: Unit tests, Release and features, Python, Git
When learning a programming language, the focus is essentially on understanding the syntax, the code style, and the underlying concepts. With time, you become sufficiently comfortable with the…
By Faouzi BRAZA
Jun 9, 2021
Desacralizing the Linux overlay filesystem in Docker
Categories: Infrastructure, Containers Orchestration | Tags: Docker, File system, DevOps, Linux
Overlay filesystems (also called union filesystems) is a fundamental technology in Docker to create images and containers. They allow creating a union of directories to create a filesystem. Multiple…
By David WORMS
Jun 3, 2021