Amazon’s foray into big data was more as a result of necessity than want. After all the company has come a long way from seeing a fresh faced Jeff Bezos heading down to the post office with a handful of books. The retail behemoth currently has 175 fulfillment centers spanning the globe and they currently ship millions of products each and every day. These logistics don’t manage themselves of course, and the online retailer uses big data to track each and every single one of the packages, from order through to fulfillment. Given the sheer scale of its operations, Amazon…
How Amazon is Solving Big Data Challenges With Data Lakes