GoPro.com
Helping the world capture and share itself in immersive and exciting ways.
This is the story of how GoPro worked with Tyler Garrett during a Tableau Consulting Engagement.
Peopled Trained
Whiteboarding, diagraming, writing code, and clustered architecture training.
Tableau Server Scripts
Partnering with data engineering to create Scripts; fine-tuning, testing, and training.
GoPro, Helping the World Capture and Share
GoPro, a company that receives tens of millions of records per day from their customers devices when the device is plugged into the camera, and was rapidly expanding its workforce. GoPro, sought advanced Tableau consulting to better understand best practices for scaling their Tableau Server in a fast-growing big data environment. GoPro hand selected Tyler due to his expertise in big data environments, data engineering consulting services expertise, and strategic Tableau Server implementations.
People trained
During his time with GoPro, Tyler helped the team learn about Tableau Server architecture and how to optimize it for scalable usage. He also improved the Tableau Server front-end and assisted software and data engineers in crafting automation scripts to manage the server more efficiently.
Tyler quickly established a sprint and scrum meeting to transition GoPro’s Tableau Server from a single node to a high availability cluster. This required spinning up multiple virtual machine environments and working with networking and infrastructure engineers to set up the new system.
Tableau Server Scripts
One of the key challenges was developing a new way to query the repository to clean up old content without requiring manual administration. To solve this, Tyler created a custom algorithm that used a simple PowerShell script to iterate through old content and move it to an archiving algorithm based on how long it had gone without previous interaction.
After successfully moving GoPro’s environment to a cluster, we made edits to the backend of the Tableau Server HTML/CSS, which is not supported by Tableau Software, but turned out to be a successful addition seen clearly in the pictures taken during the engagement.
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Images from Tyler Garrett‘s time onsite.
GOPRO.COM
Industry:
Technology Videography Consumer Electronics
Headquarters:
San Mateo, CA
Data Stacks:
Tableau, Hadoop, IOT
I had the pleasure of working alongside Tyler Garrett at GoPro. Tyler optimized GoPro’s Tableau Server and assisted us with upgrading to a clustered highly available environment. Our team enjoyed learning Tableau with Tyler! He was extremely flexible and would give us the advanced version if we asked for it. Tyler impressed the GoPro data engineering team. He is a natural business leader, easy to work with, and was a great morale booster for everyone at GoPro! Within one day our Tableau server was 100% upgraded, migrated and optimized. We finished with our requirements three times faster than our team expected. Dev3lop is the right choice for a company of any size.