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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Edureka

APRIL 10, 2025

When you hear the term System Hacking, it might bring to mind shadowy figures behind computer screens and high-stakes cyber heists. In this blog, we’ll explore the definition, purpose, process, and methods of prevention related to system hacking, offering a detailed overview to help demystify the concept.

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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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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If you had a continuous deployment system up and running around 2010, you were ahead of the pack: but today it’s considered strange if your team would not have this for things like web applications.  We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. and hand-rolled C -code.

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Precisely

JANUARY 9, 2025

These are all big questions about the accessibility, quality, and governance of data being used by AI solutions today. The simple idea was, hey how can we get more value from the transactional data in our operational systems spanning finance, sales, customer relationship management, and other siloed functions.

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dbt Developer Hub

APRIL 20, 2025

We are committed to building the data control plane that enables AI to reliably access structured data from across your entire data lineage. Both AI agents and business stakeholders will then operate on top of LLM-driven systems hydrated by the dbt MCP context. What is MCP? Why does this matter? MCP addresses this challenge.

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Striim

JANUARY 30, 2025

Todays organizations have access to more data than ever before, and consequently are faced with the challenge of determining how to transform this tremendous stream of real-time information into actionable insights. Encryption, access controls, and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) patient records or geolocation data).

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Simon Späti

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Traditionally, answering this question would require expensive GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software or complex database setups. Today, DuckDB offers a simpler, more accessible approach for data engineers to tackle spatial problems without specialized infrastructure.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

However, this category requires near-immediate access to the current count at low latencies, all while keeping infrastructure costs to a minimum. Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service.

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 22, 2025

It is a critical and powerful tool for scalable discovery of relevant data and data flows, which supports privacy controls across Metas systems. It enhances the traceability of data flows within systems, ultimately empowering developers to swiftly implement privacy controls and create innovative products. Hack, C++, Python, etc.)

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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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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

High-quality, accessible and well-governed data enables organizations to realize the efficiency and productivity gains executives seek. By establishing data standardization, accessibility, and integration, partners help clients overcome the barriers that often derail AI initiatives.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

But as technology speeds forward, organizations of all sizes are realizing that generative AI isn’t just aspirational: It’s accessible and applicable now. Alberta Health Services ER doctors automate note-taking to treat 15% more patients The integrated health system of Alberta, Canada’s third-most-populous province, with 4.5

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 8, 2024

When an “out of bounds” topic comes up, the chatbot hands over to a human agent: My first attempt to get the chatbot to talk about non-shopping related topics led to a swift handoff to a human agent Poking at the system prompt A system prompt is a way to provide context and instructions before passing on the user input.

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databricks

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As enterprises build agent systems to deliver high quality AI apps, we continue to deliver optimizations to deliver best overall cost-efficiency for our.

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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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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

AI agents, autonomous systems that perform tasks using AI, can enhance business productivity by handling complex, multi-step operations in minutes. Agents need to access an organization's ever-growing structured and unstructured data to be effective and reliable. text, audio) and structured (e.g.,

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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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Snowflake

APRIL 2, 2025

The data warehouse solved for performance and scale but, much like the databases that preceded it, relied on proprietary formats to build vertically integrated systems. Traditional databases excelled at structured data and transactional workloads but struggled with performance at scale as data volumes grew.

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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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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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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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Snowflake

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For years, an essential tenet of digital transformation has been to make data accessible, to break down silos so that the enterprise can draw value from all of its data. Overall, data must be easily accessible to AI systems, with clear metadata management and a focus on relevance and timeliness.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A consolidated data system to accommodate a big(ger) WHOOP When a company experiences exponential growth over a short period, it’s easy for its data foundation to feel a bit like it was built on the fly. This blog post is the second in a three-part series on migrations. million in cost savings annually.

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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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Snowflake

JANUARY 30, 2025

Gen AI makes this all easy and accessible because anyone in an enterprise can simply interact with data by using natural language. What if our app doesnt have access to the right data and generates inaccurate results for stakeholders? Sales teams are usually boxed into dashboards to get insights.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 21, 2025

How can they get access to more transparency into where and why their marketing dollars are being spent (to reduce fraud, saturation and leverage for higher-level internal measurement practices, among other reasons)? Teams will also be able to work more efficiently when they can access all relevant data in one place.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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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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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. With data volumes skyrocketing, and complexities increasing in variety and platforms, traditional centralized data management systems often struggle to keep up.

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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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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Uber stores its data in a combination of Hadoop and Cassandra for high availability and low latency access. Every time you play, skip, or save a song, Spotify notes the behavior and passes it to their recommendation system through Kafka. Flink then gets to work finding the nearest available driver and calculating your fare.

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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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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Optimize performance and cost with a broader range of model options Cortex AI provides easy access to industry-leading models via LLM functions or REST APIs, enabling you to focus on driving generative AI innovations. We offer a broad selection of models in various sizes, context window lengths and language supports.

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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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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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Precisely

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Key Takeaways : The significance of using legacy systems like mainframes in modern AI. The challenges and solutions involved in integrating legacy data with modern AI systems. These systems store massive amounts of historical datadata that has been accumulated, processed, and secured over decades of operation.

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