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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

  Heavy development investment:  Automattic – a VC-funded company founded by Matt Mullenweg – is the largest contributor to Wordpress, paying  more than 100 staff  to work full-time on the project. The same Silver Lake purchased a majority stake in Skype for $1.9B in 2009, and sold the company for $8.5B

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Building a Kimball dimensional model with dbt

dbt Developer Hub

Part 1: Setup dbt project and database ​ Step 1: Install project dependencies ​ Before you can get started: You must have either DuckDB or PostgreSQL installed. This tutorial aims to solve this by providing the definitive guide to dimensional modeling with dbt. or above installed You must have dbt version 1.3.0

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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. Meta joins the Data Transfer Project and has continuously led the development of shared technologies that enable users to port their data from one platform to another. feature on Facebook. 2024: Users can access data logs in Download Your Information.

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Apache Airflow and the Future of Data Engineering: A Q&A

Maxime Beauchemin

Question 2] How has the transition from an internal tool at Airbnb to an Apache project been? Apache scaled community contributions by allowing for many external committers to merge pull requests, accelerating the pace of change in the project. Takeaway In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote the popular essay Why Software Is Eating The World.

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OCP Summit 2024: The open future of networking hardware for AI

Engineering at Meta

At Open Compute Project Summit (OCP) 2024, we’re sharing details about our next-generation network fabric for our AI training clusters. We’ve expanded our network hardware portfolio and are contributing two new disaggregated network fabrics and a new NIC to OCP.

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Top 20 Blockchain Platforms in 2024

Knowledge Hut

billion in 2021 and is projected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 85.9% You should restrict network options to quality, convenience of use, accessibility, and affordability if your project does not require a lot of transactions and just necessitates periodic data inspection, such as an escrow agreement.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. When I joined Netflix back in 2011, our content analytics team was just 3 people.