Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We also co-presented talks at EkoParty, DEF CON, Hardwear.io, Pwn2own, and other security research summits. Noteworthy contributions over the years include Philippes groundbreaking research on Instagram access token leak , video capture limit bypass on Ray-Ban stories , and more.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Cloudera, together with Octopai, will make it easier for organizations to better understand, access, and leverage all their data in their entire data estate – including data outside of Cloudera – to power the most robust data, analytics and AI applications.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article is the first in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Enter DataJunction (DJ). DJ acts as a central store where metric definitions can live and evolve.

Engineering 84

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Precisely

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Data fabric is a unified approach to data management, creating a consistent way to manage, access, and share data across distributed environments. As data management grows increasingly complex, you need modern solutions that allow you to integrate and access your data seamlessly.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

High-quality, accessible and well-governed data enables organizations to realize the efficiency and productivity gains executives seek. For Snowflake partners, this presents a clear opportunity. Partners are uniquely positioned to help clients build robust data strategies and architectures that unlock AIs full potential. Ready to lead?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Wordpress.org – which has a complex, intertwined setup with Automattic, and was also cofounded by Matt Mullenweg –  bans  WP Engine from accessing its plugin repository and updates infrastructure. 25 Sep: Block. This penalizes WP Engine customers. 27 Sep: Unblock.  Wordpress.org 

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Zalando Engineering

MARCH 6, 2025

Real-time data access is critical in e-commerce, ensuring accurate pricing and availability. A simple request"Im building a new feature and need access to product data. Those without the capacity relied on an existing unified data source, such as our Presentation API, inheriting its version of product data. Where do I get it?"had

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This is not surprising when you consider all the benefits, such as reducing complexity [and] costs and enabling zero-copy data access (ideal for centralizing data governance).

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Banking Finance Retail Food 98

Snowflake

APRIL 9, 2025

Since snowboards often have a wooden core, and because a snowboard is the traditional trophy for the Snowflake Startup Challenge, were going to go ahead and say that the snowboard trophy qualifies as a present for the fifth anniversary of our Startup Challenge. The judges will deliberate live before naming the 2025 Grand Prize winner.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yet, the complexity and computational demands of LLM inference present a challenge. Customers can access these in Cortex AI via the complete function. Large language models (LLMs) are at the heart of generative AI transformations, driving solutions across industries from efficient customer support to simplified data analysis.

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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. As always, I have not been paid to write about this company and have no affiliation with it – see more in my ethics statement. Funding and team size The company got started thanks to a €150K ($165K) EU grant.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 15, 2025

Complexity and Variability Each type of unstructured data—text, images, videos, or audio—presents unique challenges. Adopting an intelligent scheduling engine to process data using GPU and CPU, adjusting to the intensity of the workload to balance cost and efficiency, presents a unique challenge.

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Precisely

DECEMBER 16, 2024

While challenging, this digital transformation also presents plenty of opportunities, particularly when it comes to the effective management of IT operations (ITOps). 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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Data Engineering Weekly

APRIL 24, 2025

This discussion shed significant light on the maturity, challenges, and potential that generative AI and data preparedness present in contemporary enterprises. Integration and Accessibility: The ease of integrating and accessing data within the organization significantly accelerates AI adoption and effectiveness.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This article gives a high-level overview of how LLMs work and their attendant limitations with accessible explanations and anecdotes throughout the piece. We also present advice on how people can introduce them into their workflows.

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Snowflake

APRIL 16, 2025

However, relying only on structured data for these models can overlook valuable signals present in unstructured sources like images, which influence user engagement. Best-in-class machine translation : For all digital text and extracted text from documents, organizations often need to make information accessible across languages.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 19, 2024

you can define arbitrary parsers using a string means the parser doesnt even have to be present remotely! For convenience, they support the dot-syntax (when possible) for accessing keys, making it easy to access values in a nested configuration. You can access Configs of any past runs easily through the Client API.

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Netflix Tech

JANUARY 2, 2025

This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. To facilitate easier access to incrementality results, we have developed an interactive tool powered by this framework. Need to catch up?

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Cloudyard

MARCH 6, 2025

However, a common challenge arises: Hardcoded role names in masking policies make managing access permissions cumbersome. This blog presents a dynamic, scalable, and efficient approach to role-base data masking in Snowflake using JavaScript UDFs. Two separate UDFs determine if a user has full access or partial access.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As data continues to become more complex, it is critical to have effective ways to present this information. Historically that would involve working with a tooling team or trying to fit something into a presentation. Streamlit apps are Snowflake objects and follow role-based access control.

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Striim

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A nonprofit educational healthcare organization is faced with the challenge of modernizing its critical systems while ensuring uninterrupted access to essential services. This setup presented several technical hurdles. This was crucial for guaranteeing uninterrupted access to student records, class schedules, and other key services.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 16, 2024

Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place. Want to see Starburst in action?

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Precisely

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ultimately, they are trying to serve data in their marketplace and make it accessible to business and data consumers,” Yoğurtçu says. Cloud modernization presents challenges. With the rise of cloud-based data management, many organizations face the challenge of accessing both on-premises and cloud-based data.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Sign up now for early access to Materialize and get started with the power of streaming data with the same simplicity and low implementation cost as batch cloud data warehouses. Go to [dataengineeringpodcast.com/materialize]([link] Support Data Engineering Podcast

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

What are the technical capabilities that need to be present for an effective data sharing solution? What are the requirements around governance and auditability of data access that need to be addressed when sharing data? What are the technical capabilities that need to be present for an effective data sharing solution?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

We know IPOs are few and far between at present, but what about other exits? Access ChatGPT or Bard from an Amazon computer and you’re greeted with a screen of guidelines about how to use – and not use – these AI tools. An exit means either listing on a stock exchange or being acquired.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 25, 2023

Their goal will be to present themselves in a positive light. Meanwhile, Amazon has announced Bedrock, but more than a month later not even its own developers have access. And as for companies? Among the big 3 cloud providers, Microsoft and Google are shipping generative AI solutions for customers to use. Exclusive A 1.5

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Edureka

APRIL 22, 2025

Infrastructure provisioning and management are not necessary because everything is accessible through a single portal. Snowflake: Offers multi-cloud support, which is present on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. For access control, it is closely linked with Microsoft Entra (Azure AD).

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Snowflake

MARCH 27, 2024

By doing so, these companies gain access to our scalable infrastructure and powerful analytics while being able to offer a more advanced and differentiated experience to Snowflake customers. Our partnerships with companies like Observe help turn signals into actionable insights that are presented in compelling and innovative ways.

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Snowflake

APRIL 10, 2024

One of our key objectives at Snowflake is to help enterprises fully unlock the value of their data, and an important aspect of that is making data both accessible and actionable to as many people as possible, regardless of their role or technical skill set.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Summary Building a data platform that is enjoyable and accessible for all of its end users is a substantial challenge. Support Data Engineering Podcast Summary Building a data platform that is enjoyable and accessible for all of its end users is a substantial challenge. Go to [materialize.com]([link] today and get 2 weeks free!

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Robinhood

MARCH 26, 2024

Ten years in, Robinhood Presents: The New Gold Standard is yet another step forward in our company’s mission to democratize finance for all as we unveil our first credit card–the Robinhood Gold Card. The event is available to livestream on go.robinhood.com/presents at 7:15 pm ET on March 26 and will be available for replay.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Anyway this week will be a mixed Data News with links, stuff and ideas and a small wrap-up of the DuckCon + the stuff I presented on Wed. Even if you give your LLM access to the database, the codebase and the docs there is something the LLM does not have: the implicit (vocal) business rules that are written nowhere. conference.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. DRM is a collection of access control technologies that are used for protecting the copyrights of digital media such as movies and music tracks.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 23, 2025

The author presents a "bear case" regarding AI advancement, predicting that current methods, such as scaling large language models (LLMs) and employing techniques like reinforcement learning (RL) and chain-of-thought (CoT), will not lead to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). and then to Nuage 3.0, The article highlights Nuage 3.0's

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Data Engineering Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It allows different data platforms to access and share the same underlying data without copying, treating OTFs as a storage-layer abstraction. The blog narrates the gateway's purpose: simplifying access, enabling experimentation, achieving cost-efficiency, and providing auditing and platformization benefits.

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Snowflake

JUNE 4, 2024

Generative AI presents enterprises with the opportunity to extract insights at scale from unstructured data sources, like documents, customer reviews and images. It also presents an opportunity to reimagine every customer and employee interaction with data to be done via conversational applications.

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