Designing and testing for accessibility in GIS and mapping
ArcGIS
MAY 13, 2024
Review best practices for designing and testing for accessibility maps and apps throughout the ArcGIS system during the development process.
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Demystifying Azure Storage Account network access
Towards Data Science
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Demystifying Azure Storage Account Network Access Service endpoints and private endpoints hands-on: including Azure Backbone, storage account firewall, DNS, VNET and NSGs Connected Network — image by Nastya Dulhiier on Unsplash 1. Defense in depth measures must be in place before data scientists and ML pipelines can access the data.
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Designing and testing for accessibility in GIS and mapping
ArcGIS
MAY 13, 2024
Review best practices for designing and testing for accessibility maps and apps throughout the ArcGIS system during the development process.
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Securely Scaling Big Data Access Controls At Pinterest
Pinterest Engineering
JULY 25, 2023
Each dataset needs to be securely stored with minimal access granted to ensure they are used appropriately and can easily be located and disposed of when necessary. Consequently, access control mechanisms also need to scale constantly to handle the ever-increasing diversification.
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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
Data Owner Responsibilities: Balancing Security, Access, and Sanity
Monte Carlo
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
It’s because data owners are responsible for ensuring the quality, security, and accessibility of a dataset across the entire organization. That way, as systems or regulations change, there will alway be one person who can advocate and evaluate the needs for that compliance. First, better data means faster, smarter decisions.
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Startup Spotlight: Pave Seeks to Remove Barriers to Accessible Lending
Snowflake
OCTOBER 19, 2023
I’ve long believed technology can dismantle societal and systemic obstacles. Financial systems around the world hold many of these obstacles. I’m inspired by the opportunity to create a more accessible and fair financial system for underserved communities, alleviating the struggle and ultimately boosting economic growth.
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What is Remote Access Trojan (RAT)? Types, Variants, Uses
Knowledge Hut
APRIL 23, 2024
In cybersecurity, Remote Access Trojans (RATs) have become a major concern for individuals and businesses alike. These sneaky programs can infiltrate your system undetected, allowing hackers to take control of your computer remotely without you even knowing it. What is Remote Access Trojan (RAT)? So, what exactly is the RAT?
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4 Ways Better Access to Healthcare Data Can Improve Patient Outcomes
Snowflake
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
From improving patient outcomes to increasing clinical efficiencies, better access to data is helping healthcare organizations deliver better patient care. Here are four ways improved access to data can help healthcare organizations provide patients with better care: 1. These alarming trends have healthcare administrators on red alert.
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Solaris Decentralizes Access and Delivers Data Faster With Snowflake
Snowflake
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Learn how Europe’s leading embedded finance provider delivers data faster, decentralizes access and improves lineage controls with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. But while our existing provider offers amazing solutions, we found a few challenges in how we had to manage data access and lineage.” It created a lot of risks,” added Ben David.
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How Snowflake and Merit Helped Provide Over 120,000 Students with Access to Education Funding
Snowflake
MAY 16, 2024
Our modern approach accelerates digital transformation, connects previously siloed systems, increases operational efficiencies, and can deliver better outcomes for constituents verifying digital credentials. The post How Snowflake and Merit Helped Provide Over 120,000 Students with Access to Education Funding appeared first on Snowflake.
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Data Migration Strategies For Large Scale Systems
Data Engineering Podcast
MAY 26, 2024
Summary Any software system that survives long enough will require some form of migration or evolution. When that system is responsible for the data layer the process becomes more challenging. As you have gone through successive migration projects, how has that influenced the ways that you think about architecting data systems?
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What is broken access control and How to Prevent It?
Edureka
JULY 19, 2024
Access control fundamentally secures systems by controlling and monitoring who can access resources or perform actions. This might yield full access to unauthorized data and may even modify it, apart from the compromise one could get over a system. Here you will see what is broken access control.
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ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access
Netflix Tech
MARCH 10, 2021
ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation.
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A Software Developer's Perspective on the European Accessibility Act by Peter Marsh
Scott Logic
MAY 28, 2024
Within Scott Logic is the accessibility and ethical software working group, a modest team eager to explore the nuanced and crucial but often overlooked domain of software accessibility. Some time ago we caught wind of the European Accessibility Act (EAA), a new set of rules which will be enforced from June 2025.
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Elevate Your Accessibility Testing - 10 Key Steps and 5 Inclusive Strategies to help you raise your game by Kay Coombes
Scott Logic
OCTOBER 13, 2024
Elevate Your Accessibility Testing - 10 Key Steps and 5 Inclusive Strategies to help you raise your game I am often asked by colleagues and clients about accessibility testing, as it is something I have done on many occasions as part of my job as a tester. Accessibility - 10 Key Steps 1.
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Testing with Intent: a Path to Embedded Accessibility by Sam Gladstone
Scott Logic
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Embedded Accessibility is a vision of building accessible products by default. We can consider accessibility embedded when it no longer needs to be prioritised because it is already at the core of the delivery process. Our products will also be more accessible by default. Does this sound familiar?
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Managing Database Access Control For Teams With strongDM
Data Engineering Podcast
JANUARY 28, 2019
Summary Controlling access to a database is a solved problem… right? After years of running across the same issues in numerous companies and even more projects Justin McCarthy built strongDM to solve database access management for everyone. Can you describe the architecture of your system?
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Introducing Robinhood Connect, Simplifying Access to Web 3
Robinhood
APRIL 26, 2023
Robinhood’s On-Ramp to Web3 “Crypto and Web3 have the potential to change the future of the financial system for the better, but we recognize there are still significant hurdles preventing broader adoption,” said Johann Kerbrat, GM of Robinhood Crypto. To learn more, visit [link].
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How to Quickly and Easily Access Data Across the Business
Precisely
APRIL 11, 2023
Do I have access to the data? What do I need to do to access the data now and make it easy to find and access in the future? Data that’s scattered throughout your organization – within various systems and with multiple owners – poses a big challenge. What existing data does the organization have to support my initiative?
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Designing Data Transfer Systems That Scale
Data Engineering Podcast
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Data transfer systems are a critical component of data enablement, and building them to support large volumes of information is a complex endeavor. With Datafold, you can seamlessly plan, translate, and validate data across systems, massively accelerating your migration project. When is DoubleCloud Data Transfer the wrong choice?
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Fail Safe vs Fail Secure: Top Differences in Locking Systems
Knowledge Hut
MARCH 22, 2024
I have comprehensively analyzed the area of physical security, particularly the ongoing discussion surrounding fail safe vs fail-safe secure electric strike locking systems. On the other hand, fail-secure systems focus on maintaining continuous security, keeping doors locked even in difficult conditions to protect assets.
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Ransomware Attacks: 3 Keys to Resilience for Your IBM i Systems
Precisely
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Key Takeaways: In the face of ransomware attacks, a resilience strategy for IBM i systems must include measures for prevention, detection, and recovery. No platform is immune, not even the reliable and secure IBM i systems. So, how can you keep your IBM i systems resilient even as ransomware risks are on the rise?
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Bright Data Helps Organizations Access the World’s Largest Data sets with Snowflake
Snowflake
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
This is the core problem Bright Data, a market leading public web data collection platform , is trying to solve: how can every organization in the world access publicly available web data at scale and speed? And with Snowflake’s Marketplace, customers also get more flexibility in how they consume and purchase Bright Data’s products.
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Engineering Privacy: A Technical Overview of Privacy in Data Systems
Data Engineering Weekly
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Privacy and access management within data infrastructure is not just a best practice; it's a necessity. Robust privacy and access management protocols are crucial for GDPR compliance, protecting sensitive information, and maintaining user trust. For example, GDPR and HIPAA require strict access controls to protect sensitive data.
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Apache Ozone – A Multi-Protocol Aware Storage System
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Apache Ozone is compatible with Amazon S3 and Hadoop FileSystem protocols and provides bucket layouts that are optimized for both Object Store and File system semantics. Bucket layouts provide a single Ozone cluster with the capabilities of both a Hadoop Compatible File System (HCFS) and Object Store (like Amazon S3).
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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems
phData: Data Engineering
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The world we live in today presents larger datasets, more complex data, and diverse needs, all of which call for efficient, scalable data systems. These systems are built on open standards and offer immense analytical and transactional processing flexibility. These formats are transforming how organizations manage large datasets.
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Apache Kafka Data Access Semantics: Consumers and Membership
Confluent
MAY 7, 2019
Although it is the simplest way to subscribe to and access events from Kafka, behind the scenes, Kafka consumers handle tricky distributed systems challenges like data consistency, failover and load balancing. Let’s first examine what we would want from a typical system that processes a large amount of data for a critical cause.
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Group vs Fine-Grained Access Control in Cloudera Data Platform Public Cloud
Cloudera
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Cloudera Data platform ( CDP ) provides a Shared Data Experience ( SDX ) for centralized data access control and audit in the Enterprise Data Cloud. The Ranger Authorization Service (RAZ) is a new service added to help provide fine-grained access control (FGAC) for cloud storage. Changes with file access control .
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Multiprogramming Operating System: Types, Features & Examples
Knowledge Hut
JANUARY 3, 2024
An operating system that allows multiple programmes to run simultaneously on a single processor machine is known as a multiprogramming operating system. This keeps the system from idly waiting for the I/O work to finish, wasting CPU time. We'll explain the multiprogramming operating system in this article.
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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix
Netflix Tech
MARCH 7, 2024
The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.
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A Tour Around Buck2, Meta's New Build System
Tweag
JULY 5, 2023
Buck2 is a from-scratch rewrite of Buck , a polyglot, monorepo build system that was developed and used at Meta (Facebook), and shares a few similarities with Bazel. As you may know, the Scalable Builds Group at Tweag has a strong interest in such scalable build systems. Meta recently announced they have made Buck2 open-source.
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Introduction to AWS Elastic File System (EFS)
Edureka
JULY 4, 2024
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a service that Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) provides. AWS Elastic File System ( EFS ) is a service for storing files in the cloud provided by AWS which is scalable, elastic, and highly available. What features does AWS Elastic File System offer? What is Amazon EFS? Key features include: 1.
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Implement Access Control in Node.js
nodeSWAT
MARCH 30, 2016
Most web applications rely on some sort of access control to keep users from accessing information not meant for them. If authentication is a lock on the main door of the hotel, then access control is the individual access card they give to each user for accessing their room. So let’s get started.
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A Data Mesh Implementation: Expediting Value Extraction from ERP/CRM Systems
Towards Data Science
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
ERP and CRM systems are designed and built to fulfil a broad range of business processes and functions. Accessing Operational Data I used to connect to views in transactional databases or APIs offered by operational systems to request the raw data. Accessibility : I could easily request access to these data products.
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Snowpark Offers Expanded Capabilities Including Fully Managed Containers, Native ML APIs, New Python Versions, External Access, Enhanced DevOps and More
Snowflake
JUNE 28, 2023
This empowers organizations to break free from the burdensome task of spinning up and managing complex standalone systems operating outside of Snowflake’s governance boundary. This integration allows users to securely connect to a git repo from a Snowflake account and access contents from any branch / tag / commit within Snowflake.
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Build faster with Buck2: Our open source build system
Engineering at Meta
APRIL 6, 2023
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system , is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster and more efficient. In particular, we support Sapling-based file systems. Why rebuild Buck?
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The Recommendation System at Lyft
Lyft Engineering
APRIL 3, 2023
This blog post focuses on the scope and the goals of the recommendation system, and explores some of the most recent changes the Rider team has made to better serve Lyft’s riders. Introduction: Scope of the Recommendation System The recommendation system covers user experiences throughout the ride journey.
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SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
Cloudera
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
The identity team at Cloudera has been working to add the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) support to Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) and we’re happy to announce the general availability of SCIM on Azure Active Directory! SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management): an Introduction. Are revocable.
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Change Data Capture as the Backbone of RAG AI-Driven System Resilience Strategies
Striim
JULY 30, 2024
Ensuring system resilience is critical for maintaining a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world. As businesses rely on real-time data to fuel decision-making, it’s essential that their systems can withstand disruptions and maintain functionality.
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Understanding The Immune System With Data At ImmunAI
Data Engineering Podcast
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
He also explains how he has architected the systems that ingest, process, and distribute the data that he is responsible for and the requirements that are introduced when collaborating with researchers, domain experts, and machine learning developers. What are some of the ways that you make your data accessible to AI/ML engineers?
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Cyber Safe Behaviour In Banking Systems
U-Next
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
As my thoughts started wandering around our Banking systems and Cosmos Bank Cyber-attack 2018. There is a rapid increase in banking frauds like identity theft, phishing, vishing, smishing, access to debit/credit card details, and UPI/QR code scams. The system should time and again monitor and report audit authorities.
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A Flexible and Efficient Storage System for Diverse Workloads
Cloudera
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
In this blog post, we will talk about a single Ozone cluster with the capabilities of both Hadoop Core File System (HCFS) and Object Store (like Amazon S3). A unified storage architecture that can store both files and objects and provide a flexible, scalable, and high-performance system. Bucket types. release version.
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Types of Information Systems: 6 Information System Types and Applications
Knowledge Hut
DECEMBER 28, 2023
The information system is a very vast concept that encompasses several aspects like database management, the communication system, various devices, several connections, the internet, collection, organization, and storing data and other information-related applications that are typically used in a business forum.
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