Pinterest has to support real-time decision making while operating on petabyte-scale data. Swaminathan Sundaramurthy and Mark Cho offer an overview of Pinterest's real-time data pipeline (modeled on quasi-Kappa architecture), its impact on the company's systems, and tools and processes used and demonstrate how Pinterest models real-time ads analytics on the platform.

As big data solutions are rapidly moving to the cloud, it's becoming increasingly important to know how to use Apache Hadoop, Spark, R Server, and other open source technologies in the cloud. Pranav Rastogi walks you through building big data applications on Azure HDInsight and other Azure services.

Launched in late 2015, Astellas's enterprise data lake project is taking the company on a data governance journey. Kishore Papineni offers an overview of the project, providing insights into some of the business pain points and key drivers, how it has led to organizational change, and the best practices associated with Astellas's new data governance process.