https://dataworkssummit.com/san-jose-2018/expo-theatre/gimel-paypals-analytics-data-platform/ At PayPal, data engineers, analysts, and data scientists work with a variety of data sources (Messaging, NoSQL, RDBMS, Documents, TSDB), compute engines (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hive), languages (Scala, Python, SQL) and execution models (stream, batch, interactive). Due to this complex matrix of technologies and thousands of datasets, engineers spend considerable time learning about different data sources, formats, programming models, APIs, optimizations, etc. which impacts time-to-market (TTM). To solve this problem and to make product development more effective, PayPal Data Platform developed “Gimel”, a unified analytics data platform which provides access to any storage through a single unified data API and SQL, that is powered by a centralized data catalog. In this session, we will introduce you to the various components of Gimel – Compute Platform, Data API, PCatalog, GSQL, and Notebooks. We will provide a demo depicting how Gimel reduces TTM by helping our engineers write a single line of code to access any storage without knowing the complexity behind the scenes.