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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

phData: Data Engineering

The world we live in today presents larger datasets, more complex data, and diverse needs, all of which call for efficient, scalable data systems. These systems are built on open standards and offer immense analytical and transactional processing flexibility. These formats are transforming how organizations manage large datasets.

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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. Cloudera was started in 2008, and HortonWorks started in 2011. Apache Pig in 2008 came too, but it didn’t ever see as much adoption. Apache HBase came in 2007, and Apache Cassandra came in 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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Happy Leap Day!

The Pragmatic Engineer

But first, a few current cases of systems whose developers didn’t: In Sweden, card payments are down at a leading supermarket chain. Airline Avianca printed tickets dated as 3/1 instead of 2/29, thanks to their system not accounting for the leap day. The system was almost fully restored before noon.”

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Data Council 2023

Christophe Blefari

Organisations are systems with inputs and outputs and a formula. Scaling Uber metrics systems (w/ Pinot) — uMetric migration from ES to Pinot. He coined the "data scientist" term back in 2008. The analytics goal is to model correctly business. Formulas have metrics, relationships and weights.

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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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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

The Pragmatic Engineer

The bank’s systems start to be overloaded to the point of customers not being able to log on and transfer. The FDIC is a government agency whose goal is to maintain stability and public confidence in the US financial system. In general, I’m optimistic about the system’s ability to contain the fallout from SVB.

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