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Technical debt has become widely prevalent nowadays. Since technology is constantly evolving, many businesses have to choose between acquiring new solutions or sticking with tried-and-tested ones. No right answer can be given to this hard choice. But even though debt sounds threatening for many, it doesn't always have to be.

Python and R seem to be the first choice when it comes to data engineering. However, if we look a bit deeper, Scala is gaining more and more popularity. This is because, thanks to its functional nature, it is a more common choice when it comes to building powerful applications that need to cooperate with a vast amount of data.

You come across the term technical debt, read a little about this matter, know everything in theory, and you’re still not sure how to correctly identify whether some kind of design flaws are actually technical debt or not.  We have a solution that can help you with this issue – Technical Debt Quadrants. This method […]

Nowadays, with technology advancing at a fast rate, technical debt occurs more frequently. Yet many companies may still be unaware of it.  And it’s not too much of a stretch to say that the majority of people working with technology on a daily basis have encountered, dealt with, and incurred such debt.  That is not […]

Any business that is growing will, at some point, face scalability issues. Not only does that refer to business challenges, but also technical ones. More clients, processes, and therefore data mean a necessity to adjust online products to this greater volume.  From Scalac’s experience, introducing such crucial technical changes in data engineering requires smart choices […]

It was the internet that first got people realizing just how much easier knowledge-sharing could be. And by the time COVID-19 arrived on the scene, e-learning had become so accessible that it was ready to take over the world. As a result, the e-Learning platform market (Learning Management System) has forced businesses to up their […]

Today, we’re going to cover this topic in detail, highlighting the challenges and characteristics of technical debt for each and every company.

Apache Kafka is the most popular event streaming platform, used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications

Scala 3 is the new major version of the Scala programming language. In this article we’ll highlight some of the changes that we think are of great value for day-to-day Scala programmers. We’ll also talk about the migration process and binary compatibility. Finally, we will conclude with our opinion on this new version.

In this article we will try to answer all the questions by examining Hadoop and Spark from a few perspectives.