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Did you know that Facebook stores over 1000 terabytes of data generated by users every day? That’s a huge amount of data, and I’m only talking about one application! And hundreds of quintillion bytes of data are generated every day in total.

With so much data being generated, it becomes difficult to process data to make it efficiently available to the end user. And that’s why the data pipeline is used.

So, what is a data pipeline? Because we are talking about a huge amount of data, I will be talking about the data pipeline with respect to Hadoop.

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Does your business need to gain better data insights? Would you like to collect, organize, and activate data from any source, be it online, offline, mobile, and more? Then you need a data management platform, or DMP.

Let’s start with a brief introduction to DMPs. Data management platforms allow you to organize, collect, and activate audience data from any source. Through this, a DMP will add value to your business by providing insights about your customers.

Today, you can buy a DMP from a number of vendors. However, the cost usually ranges from $80K to over $1M for large implementations.

But don’t fret—you have another option. You can build one yourself.

In this post, I’m going to explain how a data management platform works, features of a DMP, and the architecture for building a DMP.

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As a company grows, their data keeps increasing. Merely storing it in a database won’t do you any good. Your testers may face problems while trying to access any test data from a huge database. To help your business thrive, you must adopt a sound test data management (TDM) strategy. And to do that, you need to understand how test data management works.

TDM can be challenging for a QA team as there are so many factors to consider. So in this post, we’re going to discuss how test data management works. This detailed guide will tell you what TDM is and other relevant details. We’ll check out different TDM techniques and challenges and discover how to overcome them using best practices.

So, let’s dive into the details.

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