Technology Thoughts

In this short study, we attempt to draw a parallel between a comprehensive cybersecurity approach to detecting and mitigating cyber threats as implemented by many modern enterprises, and the public officials’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal was to adjust the current policies so that they become sustainable over a longer period. We identified potential improvements in our society’s response to the pandemic by drawing inspiration from the cybersecurity domain. We performed this mental exercise in the context of the Czech Republic, and the below recommendations need to be interpreted in that context: Routine periodical testing of a targeted subset of the population, which requires10x increase in testing capacity. Implement Segregation Policies based on Adaptive Segmentation. Deploy High-precision Smart Quarantine Tools in Controlled Environments Relax the Constraints Applied on General Public, enabled due to the smart targeted policies. Written by Jaroslav Gergic wi...

The recent boom in big data processing and democratization of the big data space has been enabled by the fact that most of the concepts originated in the research labs of companies such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Facebook are now available as open source. Technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra let businesses around the world to become more data driven and tap into their massive data feeds to mine valuable insights. At the same time, we are still at a certain stage of the maturity curve of these new big data technologies and of the entire big data technology stack. Many of the technologies originated from a particular use case and attempts to apply them in a more generic fashion are hitting the limits of their technological foundations. In some areas, there are several competing technologies for the same set of use cases, which increases risks and costs of big data implementations. We will show how GoodData solves the entire big data pipeline today, starting from raw data feeds al...