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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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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Cloudera was started in 2008, and HortonWorks started in 2011. Hadoop didn’t support doing things in real-time, and Apache Storm was open sourced in 2011. Apache Flink came in 2011 and gave us our first real streaming engine. Apache Kafka came in 2011 and gave the industry a much better way to move real-time data.

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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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20 Best Cyber Security Books for Beginners and Professionals

Knowledge Hut

Published : August 15, 2011 by Little, Brown and Company 9. Published : July 22, 2011 by No Starch Press 2. Published : September 9, 2011 by Packt Publishing 9. He describes his experience hacking into some of the world's most prestigious corporations, including Motorola, Pacific Bell, and Sun Microsystems.

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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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