(1) Processing a group of files or databases from start to completion rather than having the user open, edit and save each of them one at a time. For example, a graphics conversion utility can change ...

We live in a business world that craves instantaneous response times, especially in terms of the responsiveness of modern transactional applications. Customers expect to make a money transfer, pay a ...

In the fast-evolving world of data engineering, two methods of data analysis have emerged as the dominant, yet competing, approaches: batch processing and stream processing. Batch processing, a ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced that it has integrated its AWS Batch and Amazon EKS services with one another to help companies more easily run batch workloads in the cloud. A batch workload ...

Batch process scheduling and optimisation is a critical area of research that addresses the timing, sequencing, and allocation of production tasks in industries where manufacturing is carried out in ...

Arla Foods’ new dairy plant in England provides ample evidence that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Head of engineering Soeren Vonsild describes Arla’s necessity this way. “In this dairy, ...