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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Systems Electronics Hospitality Architecture 105

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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Building Systems Java Coding 145

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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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 18, 2024

Summary The purpose of business intelligence systems is to allow anyone in the business to access and decode data to help them make informed decisions. Support Data Engineering Podcast Summary The purpose of business intelligence systems is to allow anyone in the business to access and decode data to help them make informed decisions.

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Start Data Engineering

MAY 28, 2024

Use DuckDB to process data, not for multiple users to access data 4.2. Distributed systems are scalable, resilient to failures, & designed for high availability 4.5. Building efficient data pipelines with DuckDB 4.1. Cost calculation: DuckDB + Ephemeral VMs = dirt cheap data processing 4.3. Processing data less than 100GB?

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

What are the pain points that are still prevalent in lakehouse architectures as compared to warehouse or vertically integrated systems? What are the differences in terms of pipeline design/access and usage patterns when using a Trino/Iceberg lakehouse as compared to other popular warehouse/lakehouse structures?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Corporate conflict recap Automattic is the creator of open source WordPress content management system (CMS), and WordPress powers an incredible 43% of webpages and 65% of CMSes. This event is shameful and unprecedented in the history of open source on the web.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Introduction HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is not a traditional database but a distributed file system designed to store and process big data. It provides high-throughput access to data and is optimized for […] The post A Dive into the Basics of Big Data Storage with HDFS appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Data Storage Big Data Hadoop Datasets 185

The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Wordpress is the most popular content management system (CMS),  estimated  to power around 43% of all websites; a staggering number! We are talking about a competitor to WP Engine (Automattic) with no concrete knowledge of WP Engine’s true revenue, and demanding full access to detailed revenue reports. 25 Sep: Block.

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Consulting AWS Engineering Software Engineer 306

The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 13, 2023

The bank’s systems start to be overloaded to the point of customers not being able to log on and transfer. The FDIC is a government agency whose goal is to maintain stability and public confidence in the US financial system. For some startups, losing access to their bank account prompted drastic action.

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Banking Insurance Portfolio Media 192

The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 12, 2024

Tools and approaches at our disposal, which didn’t exist in 1975, or were not widespread in 1995, include: Git – the now-dominant version control system used by much of the industry, with exceptions for projects with very large assets, like video games Code reviews : these became common in parallel with version control.

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Engineering Programming Language Hospitality Programming 274

The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, full subscribers got access to a comprehensive Senior-and-above tech compensation research. Source: Cognition So far, all we have is video demos, and accounts of those with access to this tool. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers.

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Software Engineer Software Engineering Programming Language Media 276

The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With full-remote work, the risk is higher that someone other than the employee accesses the codebase. At the very least, far more logging is in place, and it can be easier to detect when larger parts of the codebase are accessed and copied across the network. Full subscribers can access a list with links here.

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Seattle Data Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

It gives businesses access to the data from all of their various systems. Photo by Tiger Lily Data warehouses and data lakes play a crucial role for many businesses. As well as often integrating data so that end-users can answer business critical questions.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 11, 2024

From Sella’s status page : “Following the installation of an update to the operating system and related firmware which led to an unstable situation. Still, I’m puzzled by how long the system has been down. If it was an update to Oracle, or to the operating system, then why not roll back the update?

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Banking Utilities Database Engineering 221

Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Summary Kafka has become a ubiquitous technology, offering a simple method for coordinating events and data across different systems. Support Data Engineering Podcast Summary Kafka has become a ubiquitous technology, offering a simple method for coordinating events and data across different systems.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 7, 2024

Different roles and tasks in the business need their own ways to access and analyze the data in the organization. In order to enable this use case, while maintaining a single point of access, the semantic layer has evolved as a technological solution to the problem. dbt, BI, warehouse marts, etc.) dbt, BI, warehouse marts, etc.)

Data Lake 162

Data Lake High Quality Data BI Data Workflow 162

Precisely

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Modern IT environments require comprehensive data for successful AIOps, that includes incorporating data from legacy systems like IBM i and IBM Z into ITOps platforms. AIOps presents enormous promise, but many organizations face hurdles in its implementation: Complex ecosystems made of multiple, fragmented systems that lack interoperability.

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Snowflake

JUNE 5, 2024

At the same time, organizations must ensure the right people have access to the right content, while also protecting sensitive and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and fulfilling a growing list of regulatory requirements.

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KDnuggets

JUNE 23, 2022

It will give you the power to automate tasks, build pipelines, access file systems, and enhance development operations. Essential Linux commands to improve the data science workflow.

Data Science 159

Data Science Data Accessible Accessibility 159

Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this episode Andrew Jefferson explains the complexities of building a robust system for data sharing, the techno-social considerations, and how the Bobsled platform that he is building aims to simplify the process. What are the requirements around governance and auditability of data access that need to be addressed when sharing data?

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Data Lake High Quality Data Government Data Pipeline 147

The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 9, 2024

On top of the ability to post jobs, they had access to The Pragmatic Engineer Talent Collective. Companies stayed customers longer, as they were interested in having access to the "latest drops" in the talent collective. (A There was a similar trend in companies paying to access the talent collective and job board.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The startup was able to start operations thanks to getting access to an EU grant called NGI Search grant. OpenSSL : the cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit comes with a built-in performance benchmarking capability Lmbench : tools for performance analysis for UNIX/POSIX system.

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Cloud AWS Metadata Cloud Computing 278

Robinhood

MAY 30, 2024

Robinhood Crypto has continued to see its market share increase as customers get access to a growing number of advanced trading tools to help them efficiently navigate the crypto market.” We also engage third-party security experts to test our systems, helping us build some of the most secure systems in the industry.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We are excited to announce the public preview of External Access, which enables customers to reach external endpoints from Snowpark seamlessly and securely. With this announcement, External Access is in public preview on Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions.

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Amazon Web Services AWS Government Python 122

Engineering at Meta

JUNE 27, 2023

Sapling: Scaling version control Sapling is a version control system that can scale to huge sizes, but also emphasizes usability. There are three main components to Sapling – a server, a client, and a virtual file system. The final component is the virtual file system.

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Java Programming Language Algorithm Coding 132

Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Summary Stream processing systems have long been built with a code-first design, adding SQL as a layer on top of the existing framework. There are numerous stream processing engines, near-real-time database engines, streaming SQL systems, etc. Can you describe what RisingWave is and the story behind it?

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 21, 2024

How do you manage the personalization of the AI functionality in your system for each user/team? However data engineers are challenged by both technical complexity and organizational complexity, with heterogeneous technologies to adopt, multiple data disciplines converging, legacy systems to support, and costs to manage.

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Data Lake High Quality Data Data Pipeline Machine Learning 182

Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 21, 2024

A substantial amount of the data that is being managed in these systems is related to customers and their interactions with an organization. What are the organizational/business factors that contribute to the complexity of these systems? What are the organizational/business factors that contribute to the complexity of these systems?

Data Lake 147

Data Lake High Quality Data NoSQL Data Warehouse 147

The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 11, 2023

A very popular open-source solution for systems and services monitoring. A fast and open-source column-oriented database management system, which is a popular choice for log management. Ukraine is one of the few countries for which we have access to nationwide data, through job site Djinni.

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AWS Software Engineer Software Engineering Google Cloud 318

Snowflake

JANUARY 29, 2024

This new connector offers immediate access to your Google Analytics data without the hassle, complexity and expense of manual integration via API endpoints and patched systems workarounds. Once your data reaches its final destination, access to the ingested data is governed by Snowflake’s built-in access controls.

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Raw Data Aggregated Data Cloud Data 117

Snowflake

APRIL 24, 2024

Members of the Snowflake AI Research team pioneered systems such as ZeRO and DeepSpeed , PagedAttention / vLLM , and LLM360 which significantly reduced the cost of LLM training and inference, and open sourced them to make LLMs more accessible and cost-effective for the community. license provides ungated access to weights and code.

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Amazon Web Services SQL AWS Architecture 145

Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 27, 2024

At Meta, we’ve been diligently working to incorporate privacy into different systems of our software stack over the past few years. A crucial aspect of purpose limitation is managing data as it flows across systems and services. These innovations mark a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to honoring user privacy.

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Programming Language Coding Data Warehouse Systems 122

The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In the early 90’s, DOS programs like the ones my company made had its own Text UI screen rendering system. This rendering system was easy for me to understand, even on day one. Our rendering system was very memory inefficient, but that could be fixed. By doing so, I got to see every screen of the system.

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Recruitment Java Coding Project 176

Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As part of WhatsApp’s new feature to privately add and manage your contacts on WhatsApp across linked devices, we’re announcing a novel encrypted storage system we’ve designed called Identity Proof Linked Storage (IPLS). IPLS is a novel system at WhatsApp that allows users to store their contact names in an encrypted way.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 15, 2024

Now, they can access the full set of capabilities of Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform through a single drag-and-drop interface. Designed to be simple to install and use, it allows customers to leverage Superpipe and access the full power of the IDMC platform without ever having to leave the Snowflake interface.

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Data Integration BI Cloud Data 105

Knowledge Hut

MAY 22, 2024

The CIA Triad is a common prototype that constructs the basis for the development of security systems. Confidentiality Confidentiality in information security assures that information is accessible only by authorized individuals. Simply put, it’s about maintaining access to data to block unauthorized disclosure.

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