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Amrita

Information Developer

With over a decade of technical writing experience, I currently author and maintain the Knowledge Base for Big Data Partner Engineering. I have experience authoring software documentation both offline and online including knowledge of various aspects of information development such as web content, blog posts, UI design, and work processes. My main focus is user-centered documentation and I strongly believe in 'right information at the right place'.

Unveiling the Most Recent Version of the Vertica Grafana Data Source Plugin

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 12, 2023

With over 380K downloads, the Vertica Grafana Data Source plugin just got an upgrade! The plugin was migrated from the deprecated older Grafana toolkit to align with Grafana's new Create-Plugin tool. This accelerates the plugin development with their modern build set up that requires no additional configuration. Additionally, the Vertica SQL Go driver received an...
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Updated – Unlock the Potential of Your Data in Vertica with dbt: Experience ETL-Free Data Transformation

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
August 25, 2023

Co-authored with Oussama Chakri. Update - The upgraded dbt-vertica adapter is now available! It supports dbt-core version 1.5.0 with Vertica 23.3. We added new features, and the adapter works well with the latest Vertica version. Check it out! Discover the all-new open-source dbt-Vertica adapter, offering cutting-edge features that will transform your data analytics journey. By...
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Updated – Unlock the Potential of Data Discovery in Vertica with DataHub: Master Metadata and Accelerate Data Access

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
August 21, 2023

Co-authored with Oussama Chakri. Update - The upgraded DataHub-Vertica Plugin is now available! It is updated with Datahub 0.10.5.4V. You’ll see improved performance while getting metadata into DataHub. Check out the updated plugin! Smoothen your data discovery and metadata management by integrating Vertica with DataHub using the new, certified DataHub-Vertica Plugin. This powerful combination will...
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Unlock the Potential of Machine Learning in Vertica with Saagie: Automating your ML Pipeline

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
July 13, 2023

Accelerate your data project pipelines with Saagie using Vertica’s in-database machine learning capabilities. Another ML platform that you can now use with Vertica. A win-win situation! Saagie is a Dataops platform that offers various ready-to-use technologies and advanced pipelines that enable you to manage all your data projects through a single interface. Select the technology...
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Unlock the Potential of Machine Learning in Vertica with Qwak: Optimizing Data and MLOPs

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
June 26, 2023

Leverage the best of both worlds, with Vertica and Qwak integration! Vertica's high-performance analytics and in-database machine learning combined with Qwak's MLOps capabilities provide a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking to operationalize their machine learning models at scale. VerticaPy is a Python library that leverages Vertica's machine learning capabilities. Qwak, a powerful machine learning engineering...
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Monitoring Metrics Using Vertica Prometheus and Vertica Grafana DataSource Plugins

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
May 4, 2023

Announcing an end-to-end solution to monitor your Vertica metrics! This solution provides a detailed overview of the open-source Grafana Data Source Plugin and Vertica Prometheus Exporter. It explains how you can use these plugins individually to track your metrics in Grafana or use them together based on your requirement. This solution covers • Grafana Data...

We Got Your Favorite Vertica Grafana Datasource Plugin an Upgrade!

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
April 11, 2023

We just released the vertica-grafana-datasource plugin with new and improved features. Since its recent release, we have had about 250k plus downloads and the number is only increasing! The raw query mode now supports auto-completion that helps you suggest keywords as you type. You can also configure your backup server node which means that the...
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Unleash the Power of Data Science with Vertica and Domino Data Lab

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
November 30, 2022

Introducing an end-to-end machine learning solution with Vertica and Domino Data Lab that enables you to explore, analyze, and model your data in Vertica using VerticaPy. Domino Data Lab is a data science platform to build and deploy machine learning models, monitor performance, and collaborate with one another. VerticaPy is a Python library to perform...
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Monitor your Vertica Metrics in Prometheus Using the New Vertica Prometheus Exporter

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 31, 2022

Looking to visualize Vertica metrics in your favorite monitoring tool that supports Prometheus? You can now do it with the Vertica Prometheus Exporter! We are happy to announce the Vertica Prometheus Exporter, an open-source project now available on Vertica’s GitHub. The exporter uses the vertica-sql-go driver to connect to Vertica. Prometheus is a monitoring system...

Integrate your Data Faster Using DataSpider Servista with Vertica

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 11, 2022

DataSpider Servista easily integrates and connects data across a wide variety of systems and applications – including cloud and on-premises systems, IoT integrations, and business intelligence – all with a simple GUI. To make use of DataSpider features with Vertica data, you can connect using either a JDBC or an ODBC driver. To know more,...
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Announcing the Availability of Vertica JavaScript Driver (vertica-nodejs)

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
September 30, 2022

This post is authored by Bill Jones and Danny Mickens. What is Node.js? Wikipedia defines Node.js as an “open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser, which was designed to build scalable network applications”. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web-application...

Vertica Grafana Plugin just got an Upgrade!

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
August 17, 2022

A new version of the Vertica Grafana Plugin is now available. You can download it from the Vertica GitHub page or the Grafana website. With many of our customers using the Vertica Grafana plugin, addition of the new Vertica Performance Dashboard makes it easy to visualize metrics. You can now create dashboards, quickly import it...