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Looking back at our Bug Bounty program in 2024

Engineering at Meta

million in bounties, bringing our total bounties since the creation of our program in 2011 to over $20 million. Since 2011, we have paid out more than $20 million in bug bounties. In 2024, our bug bounty program awarded more than $2.3 million in bounty awards to researchers around the world who helped make our platforms safer.

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A Detailed Guide of Interview Questions on Apache Kafka

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Apache Kafka is an open-source publish-subscribe messaging application initially developed by LinkedIn in early 2011. It is a famous Scala-coded data processing tool that offers low latency, extensive throughput, and a unified platform to handle the data in real-time.

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Building a Kimball dimensional model with dbt

dbt Developer Hub

For example: select * from sales. For example: select * from sales. Conversation between business user and analytics engineer Upon speaking with the CEO of AdventureWorks, you learn the following information: AdventureWorks manufactures bicycles and sells them to consumers (B2C) and businesses (B2B).

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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

 A company that raised $250M of funding from Silver lake Partners in 2018. The same Silver Lake purchased a majority stake in Skype for $1.9B in 2009, and sold the company for $8.5B WP Engine also sells managed Wordpress services, making it a direct competitor to Automattic.

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Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp

Robinhood

Bitstamp was founded in 2011 and has offices in Luxembourg, the UK, Slovenia, Singapore, and the US. Expected to close in the first half of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. Robinhood Markets, Inc. Robinhood”) has entered into an agreement to acquire Bitstamp Ltd.

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What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry

The Pragmatic Engineer

The company made a $72B profit in 2022 - which is more than the revenue it had in 2011. The tech giant announced eliminating 10,000 positions on Wednesday, which is about 5% of staff. So why does Microsoft need to do layoffs? Layoffs at Goldman Sachs.

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Data logs: The latest evolution in Meta’s access tools

Engineering at Meta

2011: Users can easily review actions taken on Facebook through Activity Log. Data logs are just the most recent example of how Meta gives users the power to access their data on our platforms. We have a long history of giving users transparency and control over their data: 2010: Users can retrieve a copy of their information through DYI.