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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

Wordpress is the most popular content management system (CMS),  estimated  to power around 43% of all websites; a staggering number! This article was originally published a week ago, on 3 October 2024, in The Pragmatic Engineer. To get timely analysis on software engineering industry in your inbox, subscribe.

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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. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. We lacked a scalable pub/sub system.

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Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems: Tracing with Apache Kafka and Jaeger

Confluent

Using Jaeger tracing, I’ve been able to answer an important question that nearly every Apache Kafka ® project that I’ve worked on posed: how is data flowing through my distributed system? Before I discuss how Kafka can make a Jaeger tracing solution in a distributed system more robust, I’d like to start by providing some context.

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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. By breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components we can build new systems that are more flexible, scalable, and efficient. version 1.2.0,

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Top 20 Blockchain Platforms in 2024

Knowledge Hut

A common picture of these transactions is consistent with the system's built-in features, which also stop illegitimate transaction submissions. billion in 2021 and is projected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 85.9% How to Select a Blockchain Platform for your Business? from 2022 to 2030.

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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. It’s been smooth. About Azkaban, it’s unclear to me who uses it outside of LinkedIn.

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Ethics Sheet for AI-assisted Comic Book Art Generation

Cloudera

In short, I’m very much for AI art systems, while recognizing that not all such systems are ethical. However, if such a system creates inordinate suffering, for example by suddenly putting lots of professional artists out of work, that is clearly ethically problematic. Scope, motivation, and benefits. Access — who can use it?