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Securely Scaling Big Data Access Controls At Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Each dataset needs to be securely stored with minimal access granted to ensure they are used appropriately and can easily be located and disposed of when necessary. Consequently, access control mechanisms also need to scale constantly to handle the ever-increasing diversification.

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Shutting Down My Job Board for Software Engineering Positions After 2.5 Years

The Pragmatic Engineer

Context My initial motivation with the job board was to add a kind of "helpful monetization" to both my blog, and The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In the blog – and at the end of all free newsletter issues – jobs posted by customers of the job board were shown.

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Demystifying Azure Storage Account network access

Towards Data Science

Demystifying Azure Storage Account Network Access Service endpoints and private endpoints hands-on: including Azure Backbone, storage account firewall, DNS, VNET and NSGs Connected Network — image by Nastya Dulhiier on Unsplash 1. Defense in depth measures must be in place before data scientists and ML pipelines can access the data.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Python

KDnuggets

Learn Python through tutorials, blogs, books, project work, and exercises. Access all of it on GitHub for free and join a supportive open-source community.

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Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters

Confluent

Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now available in Early Access. In this blog, learn how Freight clusters can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale.

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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

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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Did Automattic commit open source theft?

The Pragmatic Engineer

WP Engine is the challenger for the most popular managed WordPress hosting service – generating likely around $400M/year in revenue ( as per Automattic ), versus Automattic’s circa $500M/year, as per Automattic’s CEO, in a now-edited blog post. Automattic raised $980M in venture funding and was valued at $7.5B