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
Policy enforcing with Open Policy Agent
Categories: Cyber Security, Data Governance | Tags: Kafka, Ranger, Authorization, Cloud, Kubernetes, REST, SSL/TLS
Open Policy Agent is an open-source multi-purpose policy engine. Its main goal is to unify policy enforcement across the cloud native stack. The project was created by Styra and it is currently…
Jan 22, 2020
Cloudera CDP and Cloud migration of your Data Warehouse
Categories: Big Data, Cloud Computing | Tags: Cloudera, Azure, Data Lake, Data Warehouse
While one of our customer is anticipating a move to the Cloud and with the recent announcement of Cloudera CDP availability mi-september during the Strata conference, it seems like the appropriate…
By David WORMS
Dec 16, 2019
Logstash pipelines remote configuration and self-indexing
Categories: Data Engineering, Infrastructure | Tags: Docker, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Log4j
Logstash is a powerful data collection engine that integrates in the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch - Logstash - Kibana). The goal of this article is to show you how to deploy a fully managed Logstash…
Dec 13, 2019
Should you move your Big Data and Data Lake to the Cloud
Categories: Big Data, Cloud Computing | Tags: AWS, Cloud, DevOps, GCP, Azure, CDP, Databricks
Should you follow the trend and migrate your data, workflows and infrastructure to GCP, AWS and Azure? During the Strata Data Conference in New-York, a general focus was put on moving customer’s Big…
Dec 9, 2019
Hadoop Ozone part 3: advanced replication strategy with Copyset
Categories: Infrastructure | Tags: HDFS, Kubernetes, Ozone
Hadoop Ozone provide a way of setting a ReplicationType for every write you make on the cluster. Right now is supported HDFS and Ratis but more advanced replication strategies can be achieved. In this…
Dec 3, 2019
Hadoop Ozone part 2: tutorial and getting started of its features
Categories: Infrastructure | Tags: HDFS, CLI, Learning and tutorial, REST, Ozone, Amazon S3
The releases of Hadoop Ozone come with a handy docker-compose file to try out Ozone. The below instructions provide details on how to use it. You can also use the Katacoda training sandbox which…
Dec 3, 2019
Hadoop Ozone part 1: an introduction of the new filesystem
Categories: Infrastructure | Tags: HDFS, Kubernetes, Ozone
Hadoop Ozone is an object store for Hadoop. It is designed to scale to billions of objects of varying sizes. It is currently in development. The roadmap is available on the project wiki. This article…
Dec 3, 2019
Internship Data Science & Data Engineer - ML in production and streaming data ingestion
Categories: Data Engineering, Data Science | Tags: Flink, Kafka, Spark, DevOps, Kubernetes, Hadoop, HBase, Python
Context The exponential evolution of data has turned the industry upside down by redefining data storage, processing and data ingestion pipelines. Mastering these methods considerably facilitates…
By David WORMS
Nov 26, 2019
InfraOps & DevOps Internship - build a Big Data & Kubernetes PaaS
Categories: Big Data, Containers Orchestration | Tags: Kafka, Spark, DevOps, Kubernetes, LXD, NoSQL, Hadoop, Ceph
Context The acquisition of a high-capacity cluster is in line with Adaltas’ desire to build a PAAS-type offering to use and to provide Big Data and container orchestration platforms. The platforms are…
By David WORMS
Nov 26, 2019
Insert rows in BigQuery tables with complex columns
Categories: Cloud Computing, Data Engineering | Tags: GCP, Schema, BigQuery, SQL
Google’s BigQuery is a cloud data warehousing system designed to process enormous volumes of data with several features available. Out of all those features, let’s talk about the support of Struct…
Nov 22, 2019
Avoid Bottlenecks in distributed Deep Learning pipelines with Horovod
Categories: Data Science | Tags: Deep Learning, GPU, Keras, TensorFlow, Horovod
The Deep Learning training process can be greatly speed up using a cluster of GPUs. When dealing with huge amounts of data, distributed computing quickly becomes a challenge. A common obstacle which…
By Grégor JOUET
Nov 15, 2019
Kerberos and Spnego authentication on Windows with Firefox
Categories: Cyber Security | Tags: Firefox, FreeIPA, HTTP, Kerberos
In Greek mythology, Kerberos, also called Cerberus, guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. He is commonly described as a three-headed dog, a serpent’s tail, mane of…
By David WORMS
Nov 4, 2019
Notes on the Cloudera Open Source licensing model
Categories: Big Data | Tags: CDSW, License, Open source, Cloudera Manager
Following the publication of its Open Source licensing strategy on July 10, 2019 in an article called “our Commitment to Open Source Software”, Cloudera broadcasted a webinar yesterday October 2…
By David WORMS
Oct 25, 2019
Innovation, project vs product culture in Data Science
Categories: Data Science, Data Governance | Tags: DevOps, Agile, Scrum
Data Science carries the jobs of tomorrow. It is closely linked to the understanding of the business usecases, the behaviors and the insights that will be extracted from existing data. The stakes are…
By David WORMS
Oct 8, 2019
Machine Learning model deployment
Categories: Big Data, Data Engineering, Data Science, DevOps & SRE | Tags: AI, Cloud, DevOps, Machine Learning, On-premise, Operation, Schema
“Enterprise Machine Learning requires looking at the big picture … from a data engineering and a data platform perspective,” lectured Justin Norman during the talk on the deployment of Machine…
Sep 30, 2019
Rook with Ceph doesn't provision my Persistent Volume Claims!
Categories: DevOps & SRE | Tags: Kubernetes, PVC, Linux, Rook, Ubuntu, Ceph
Ceph installation inside Kubernetes can be provisionned using Rook. Currently doing an internship at Adaltas, I was in charge of participating in the setup of a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster. To avoid…
Sep 9, 2019
Users and RBAC authorizations in Kubernetes
Categories: Containers Orchestration, Data Governance | Tags: Authentication, Authorization, Cyber Security, Kubernetes, RBAC, SSL/TLS
Having your Kubernetes cluster up and running is just the start of your journey and you now need to operate. To secure its access, user identities must be declared along with authentication and…
Aug 7, 2019
TensorFlow installation on Docker
Categories: Containers Orchestration, Data Science, Learning | Tags: AI, CPU, Deep Learning, Docker, Jupyter, Linux, TensorFlow
TensorFlow is an Open Source software from Google for numerical computation using a graph representation: Vertex (nodes) represent mathematical operations Edges represent N-dimensional data array…
Aug 5, 2019