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Data News — Week 24.16

Christophe Blefari

AI News 🤖 When do models get the same hype as 2007 iPhone release? I'm a bit late with the Recommendations emails, I'm sorry about that I got a few new leads as a freelancer I had to take in priority changing a bit my schedule. But don't worry it gonna be out soon. I did not get the memo. Llama the Third is online.

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

Then, I joined a startup that tried to beat Facebook, and become the #1 social media company in Australia, around 2007. In college, I tried my hand at a couple of startups. I founded a text messaging startup at first. At this social media startup, we put a lot of work into importing your contacts from Microsoft Messenger.

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Netflix OSS and Spring Boot?—?Coming Full Circle

Netflix Tech

Coming Full Circle Taylor Wicksell, Tom Cellucci, Howard Yuan, Asi Bross, Noel Yap, and David Liu In 2007, Netflix started on a long road towards fully operating in the cloud. Netflix OSS and Spring Boot?—?Coming

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Apache HBase came in 2007, and Apache Cassandra came in 2008. Apache Pig in 2008 came too, but it didn’t ever see as much adoption. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. Hadoop didn’t support doing things in real-time, and Apache Storm was open sourced in 2011.

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Data News — Week 23.19

Christophe Blefari

Google I/O Keynote takeaways What amazed me from the Google Keynote is the fact that Generative AI is treated like a product, like the 2007 iPhone—look at this ad. This week the Google I/O Keynote was a major milestone. In Google's Keynote AI gets a 26 minutes segment and then all the derivations lasting for 2h.

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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

Netflix Tech

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and by Mariana Afonso , Anush Moorthy , Liwei Guo , Lishan Zhu , Anne Aaron Netflix has been one of the pioneers of streaming video-on-demand content?—?we and have only increased both our device and content reach since then.

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Back to the Financial Regulatory Future

Cloudera

It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. While this might be a blast from the past we’d rather leave in the proverbial rear-view mirror, in March of 2023 we were back to the future with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the largest US bank to fail since 2008.