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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. I wrote code for drivers on Windows, and started to put a basic observability system in place. EC2 had no observability system back then: people would spin up EC2 instances but have no idea whether or not they worked.

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Google looked over the expanse of the growing internet and realized they’d need scalable systems. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. Apache HBase came in 2007, and Apache Cassandra came in 2008. We lacked a scalable pub/sub system.

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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. All of these Netflix libraries and systems were open-sourced around 2012 and are still used by the community to this day.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

Netflix Tech

This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns. Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs.

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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.

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What is an Operating System (OS)? Features and Examples

Knowledge Hut

A major computer system component is its operating system (OS). A computer would be a little more than a useless computer without an operating system. And at least one operating system must be installed on your computer to run simple programs like browsers. What is Operating System (OS)?

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Telecom Network Analytics: Transformation, Innovation, Automation

Cloudera

The Dawn of Telco Big Data: 2007-2012. In a sense, there have been three phases of network analytics: the first was an appliance based monitoring phase; the second was an open-source expansion phase; and the third – that we are in right now – is a hybrid-data-cloud and governance phase. Let’s examine how we got here.