Badoo architect talks Hadoop, Spark and EXASOL - and following the example of Van Halen

Sooraj Shah
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With five per cent monthly data growth, the dating site had to move away from MySQL and Excel to faster tools - and cultivate its inner rock prima donna

With more than 300 million users worldwide, dating site Badoo has an enormous amount of data to process and store. In fact, as the company's data architect Demeter Sztanko explained, the firm is ex...

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