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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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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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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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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

Microsoft In 2009, not many US tech companies were hiring, as the sector was still recovering from the 2008 crash. 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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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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Top 18 Famous Ethical Hackers: The World Has Ever Known

Knowledge Hut

While hacking is illegal, ethical hacking is a legal method of breaching a security system to detect potential security threats. He wants to be simple and have fun while creating the best operating system. The company became a member of the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance in 2008.

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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.