The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 12, 2024

Responsible for building and maintaining developer tools so the programmer and copilot can do their jobs better; such as improving editors, building better debugging functionality, creating utility tools and macros, etc. The tester. They come up with test cases and data. Also responsible for scaffolding of tests. 

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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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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 11, 2024

This is also why banks utilize a 2-day “blackout period” which creates space to revert failed migrations or updates. There are still ongoing slowdowns in bank transfers, payments with debit and prepaid cards and in accessing and using online services, including Internet Banking, Smart Business Sella and apps.

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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. Ready to lead?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With remote work, engineers spend more time on video calls, which utilizes laptop resources like CPU, memory, and more. With full-remote work, the risk is higher that someone other than the employee accesses the codebase. Full subscribers can access a list with links here. Remote work. Open source VS Code Server.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the early 1960s the prevailing communication networks consisted of continuous, analog circuits primarily utilized for persistent voice telephone connections. Packet switching was the method ARPANET used to send data, which laid the foundation for the future internet. What was the other driver of adoption? were in english only.

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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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Engineering at Meta

APRIL 28, 2025

Each product features its own distinct data model, physical schema, query language, and access patterns. We shifted left by combining schematization together with annotations in code , in addition improving and utilizing multiple classification signals. Strict measurements provided precision/recall guarantees.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 13, 2023

But there’s no “one size fits all” strategy when it comes to deciding the right balance between utilizing the cloud and operating your infrastructure on-premises. What are the use cases where the company already utilizes public cloud? Agoda utilizes Akamai as its CDN vendor. Agoda in numbers Agoda lists 3.6M

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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. Duplicate Work : Multiple threads might duplicate the effort of aggregating the same set of counters during read operations, leading to wasted effort and subpar resource utilization.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Agents need to access an organization's ever-growing structured and unstructured data to be effective and reliable. As data connections expand, managing access controls and efficiently retrieving accurate informationwhile maintaining strict privacy protocolsbecomes increasingly complex. text, audio) and structured (e.g.,

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Ingest data more efficiently and manage costs For data managed by Snowflake, we are introducing features that help you access data easily and cost-effectively. This reduces the overall complexity of getting streaming data ready to use: Simply create external access integration with your existing Kafka solution.

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Snowflake

APRIL 9, 2025

SoFlo Solar SoFlo Solars SolarSync platform uses real-time AI data analytics and ML to transform underperforming residential solar systems into high-uptime clean energy assets, providing homeowners with savings while creating a virtual power plant network that delivers measurable value to utilities and grid operators.

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Ascend.io

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This elasticity allows data pipelines to scale up or down as needed, optimizing resource utilization and cost efficiency. Utilize Cloud-Native Tools: Leverage cloud-native data pipeline tools like Ascend to build and orchestrate scalable workflows. Regularly review usage patterns and adjust cloud resource allocation as needed.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Furthermore, most vendors require valuable time and resources for cluster spin-up and spin-down, disruptive upgrades, code refactoring or even migrations to new editions to access features such as serverless capabilities and performance improvements.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Several LLMs are publicly available through APIs from OpenAI , Anthropic , AWS , and others, which give developers instant access to industry-leading models that are capable of performing most generalized tasks. We can utilize this prompt to give the model more context on possible selections. Creating a Training Prompt.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

This scenario underscored the need for a new recommender system architecture where member preference learning is centralized, enhancing accessibility and utility across different models. Utilizing embeddings The model generates valuable embeddings for members and entities like videos, games, and genres.

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Snowflake

APRIL 13, 2025

Managing and utilizing data effectively is crucial for organizational success in today's fast-paced technological landscape. Real-time insights Timely access to information is essential for competitiveness. The vast amounts of data generated daily require advanced tools for efficient management and analysis.

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ThoughtSpot

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In the realm of modern analytics platforms, where rapid and efficient processing of large datasets is essential, swift metadata access and management are critical for optimal system performance. All these objects are essential for managing access, configuring data connections, and building interactive Liveboards.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 24, 2023

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.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 8, 2024

I have confirmed this through talking with software engineers there, who told me there’s a top-down mandate to utilize AI wherever possible in an effort to drive more efficiency, and product improvements. I expect Klarna to be very cautious here, and perhaps only human agents will have access to sensitive data.

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Precisely

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Operations: gain a stronger understanding of your organizations serviceability, with a deeper understanding of factors like capacity, CPU utilization, job duration, and disk performance. For example: privileged users access to failures customer data What will my alert categories be?

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Engineering at Meta

APRIL 13, 2023

As this is rolled out, security-conscious users who utilize the verify security code page will notice this verification process occurs quickly and automatically. Nobody – not even WhatsApp – has access to those private keys. Nobody – not even WhatsApp – has access to those private keys.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 23, 2025

s architecture, key capabilities (discoverability, access control, resource management, monitoring), client interfaces (UI, APIs, CLIs), benefits (agility, ownership, performance, security), and future considerations like self-serve onboarding, infrastructure as code, and an AI assistant. and then to Nuage 3.0,

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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. This followed a previous blog on the same topic. The standard dictionary subscript notation is also available.

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Data Engineering Weekly

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

DeepSeek development involves a unique training recipe that generates a large dataset of long chain-of-thought reasoning examples, utilizes an interim high-quality reasoning model, and employs large-scale reinforcement learning (RL). Many articles explain how DeepSeek works, and I found the illustrated example much simpler to understand.

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Data Engineering Weekly

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Wix's system utilizes over 200 models daily, necessitating a scalable and robust solution. Expedia: Gateways, Guardrails, and GenAI Models Expedia writes about the "GenAI Toolkit" for implementing and controlling access to generative AI models within enterprise environments. What are you waiting for? Register for IMPACT today!

Data Engineering 58

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Apps run on Snowflake warehouses and utilize Snowflake stages for storing files and data. Install additional Python packages from the Snowflake Anaconda Channel to utilize the full power of the Python ecosystem in your Streamlit app. Streamlit apps are Snowflake objects and follow role-based access control.

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Precisely

MARCH 20, 2025

This includes accelerating data access and, crucially, enriching internal data with external information. Unlocking Value with Pre-Linked Datasets Today, youre able to access You can pick the best data for your needs, without being limited by a specific vendors ID system or fearing the complexity of managing all the overhead.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 16, 2024

what kinds of questions are you answering with table metadata what use case/team does that support comparative utility of iceberg REST catalog What are the shortcomings of Trino and Iceberg? What are the other systems that feed into and rely on the Trino/Iceberg service? Want to see Starburst in action? Want to see Starburst in action?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Diagnosis: Customers may be unable to access Cloud resources in europe-west9-a Workaround: Customers can fail over to other zones.” The problem was that network capacity was already above target utilization – and packets started to drop as a result of the capacity loss.

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Pinterest Engineering

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This is particularly useful in environments where multiple applications need to access and process the same data. Internally, Kafka Connect utilizes a select group of Kafka brokers to facilitate a distributed computing framework. Kafka: Kafka stores metadata about connectors in several internal topics that are not exposed to end users.

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ThoughtSpot

APRIL 7, 2025

The challenge, however, lies in accessing the relevant data. The key question is how to identify relevant columns without accessing the actual dataset. However, this can be challenging without utilizing the actual data. This eliminates the need to address the aforementioned challenges.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 12, 2024

With this in mind, we built one cluster with a remote direct memory access (RDMA) over converged Ethernet (RoCE) network fabric solution based on the Arista 7800 with Wedge400 and Minipack2 OCP rack switches. The other cluster features an NVIDIA Quantum2 InfiniBand fabric.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While such apps are being created at a very fast pace, there are two main challenges: Many modern powerful apps utilize containers to package and use code; however, this typically requires data to be moved from protected environments, increasing data privacy and security risk.

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Precisely

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Building Access: For multi-dwelling units (MDUs) like office buildings, apartments, or condos, access to the building’s internal wiring and distribution points is essential. Pole Attachments: Attaching cables to existing utility poles requires agreements with the pole owner (often another utility company).

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Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The enriched data is seamlessly accessible for both real-time applications via Kafka and historical analysis through storage in an Apache Iceberg table. Raw impressions records persecond We utilize the island model for deploying our Flink jobs, where all dependencies for a given application reside within a single region.

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