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They Handle 500B Events Daily. Here’s Their Data Engineering Architecture.

Monte Carlo

While not every company needs to process millions of events per second, understanding these advanced architectures helps us make better decisions about our own data infrastructure, whether we’re handling user recommendations, ride-sharing logistics, or simply figuring out which meeting rooms are actually being used.

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From Event-Driven Chaos to a Blazingly Fast Serving API

Zalando Engineering

Real-time data access is critical in e-commerce, ensuring accurate pricing and availability. At Zalando, our event-driven architecture for Price and Stock updates became a bottleneck, introducing delays and scaling challenges. A simple request"Im building a new feature and need access to product data. Where do I get it?"had

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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

Netflix Tech

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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Did Automattic commit open source theft?

The Pragmatic Engineer

And yet, substitute Apple with Automattic, App Store with WordPress.org and Spotify with one of the most popular WordPress plugins: and Automattic’s CEO is accused of orchestrating events similar to above. This event is shameful and unprecedented in the history of open source on the web. Open source theft? Source: X What next?

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Collect Logs and Traces From Your Snowflake Applications With Event Tables

Snowflake

We are excited to announce the general availability of Snowflake Event Tables for logging and tracing, an essential feature to boost application observability and supportability for Snowflake developers. Developers can then query Event Tables to troubleshoot their applications or gain insights into performance and code behavior.

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How Retail and Media Leaders Drive Customer Satisfaction and Profits with Data and AI

Snowflake

These industry-specific virtual events are ideal for IT professionals and business leaders who want to bridge the gap between perception and reality, build robust data foundations and accelerate their AI initiatives. The events will also feature demos of key use cases and best practices. Why attend Accelerate Retail and Consumer Goods?

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Making Spark Accessible: My Databricks Summer Internship

databricks

My summer internship on the PySpark team was a whirlwind of exciting events. The PySpark team develops the Python APIs of the open.