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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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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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20 Best Cyber Security Books for Beginners and Professionals

Knowledge Hut

Cybersecurity involves protecting sensitive information and critical systems from digital attacks. A cybersecurity measure is designed to combat threats against networked systems and applications, regardless of whether they originate internally or externally. Published : August 15, 2011 by Little, Brown and Company 9.

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

Engineering at Meta

By breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components we can build new systems that are more flexible, scalable, and efficient. As a distributed system, DSF is designed to support high scale AI clusters. DSF-based fabrics allow us to build large, non-blocking fabrics to support high-bandwidth AI clusters.

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Resilience in Action: How Cloudera’s Platform, and Data in Motion Solutions, Stayed Strong Amid the CrowdStrike Outage

Cloudera

Many organizations found their systems rendered inoperative, highlighting the critical importance of system resilience and reliability. The Incident: A Brief Overview The CrowdStrike incident, which stemmed from a problematic update to their Falcon platform, caused widespread compatibility issues with Microsoft systems.