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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Netflix Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Summary The majority of blog posts and presentations about data engineering and analytics assume that the consumers of those efforts are internal business users accessing an environment controlled by the business. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem. How is everyone going to find the data they need, and understand it?

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ThoughtSpot

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

ThoughtSpot prioritizes the high availability and minimal downtime of our systems to ensure a seamless user experience. 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.

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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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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI. It is a critical feature for delivering unified access to data in distributed, multi-engine architectures.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this article, we will walk you through the process of implementing fine grained access control for the data governance framework within the Cloudera platform. In a good data governance strategy, it is important to define roles that allow the business to limit the level of access that users can have to their strategic data assets.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

ERP and CRM systems are designed and built to fulfil a broad range of business processes and functions. Accessing Operational Data I used to connect to views in transactional databases or APIs offered by operational systems to request the raw data. Accessibility : I could easily request access to these data products.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

You can observe your pipelines with built in metadata search and column level lineage. Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Guy Yachdav, Director of Software Engineering at Immunai, about his work at Immunai to wrangle biological data for advancing research into the human immune system. regulatory, security, etc.)

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog post, we will talk about a single Ozone cluster with the capabilities of both Hadoop Core File System (HCFS) and Object Store (like Amazon S3). A unified storage architecture that can store both files and objects and provide a flexible, scalable, and high-performance system. Bucket types. release version.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 5, 2025

Hadoop achieved this through distributed processing and storage, using a framework called MapReduce and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). This ecosystem includes: Catalogs: Services that manage metadata about Iceberg tables (e.g., If not handled correctly, managing this metadata can become a bottleneck.

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Precisely

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With the surge of new tools, platforms, and data types, managing these systems effectively is an ongoing challenge. Ultimately, they are trying to serve data in their marketplace and make it accessible to business and data consumers,” Yoğurtçu says. Focus on metadata management. Cloud modernization presents challenges.

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Precisely

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These enhancements improve data accessibility, enable business-friendly governance, and automate manual processes. Many businesses face roadblocks within their critical enterprise data, including struggles to achieve greater accessibility, business-friendly governance, and automation.

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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phData: Data Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It serves as a vital protective measure, ensuring proper data access while managing risks like data breaches and unauthorized use. Strong data governance also lays the foundation for better model performance, cost efficiency, and improved data quality, which directly contributes to regulatory compliance and more secure AI systems.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 16, 2024

What are the other systems that feed into and rely on the Trino/Iceberg service? 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? Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com with your story.

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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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Ascend.io

JULY 11, 2024

Metadata is the information that provides context and meaning to data, ensuring it’s easily discoverable, organized, and actionable. Imagine a library with millions of books but no catalog system to organize them. This is what managing data without metadata feels like. What is Metadata? Chaos, right?

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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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Ascend.io

DECEMBER 4, 2024

On average, engineers spend over half of their time maintaining existing systems rather than developing new solutions. Are your tools simple to implement and accessible to users with diverse skill sets? Create a Plan for Integration: Automation tools need to work seamlessly with existing systems to be effective.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 23, 2025

The author emphasizes the importance of mastering state management, understanding "local first" data processing (prioritizing single-node solutions before distributed systems), and leveraging an asset graph approach for data pipelines. I honestly don’t have a solid answer, but this blog is an excellent overview of upskilling.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. Media Access: Jasper In the early days of media ML efforts, it was very hard for researchers to access media data. Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The commonly-accepted best practice in database system design for years is to use an exhaustive search strategy to consider all the possible variations of specific database operations in a query plan. Metadata Caching. Impala’s planner simplifies planning in several ways. More on this below.

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Cloudera

MARCH 4, 2024

In this article, we will walk you through the process of implementing fine grained access control for the data governance framework within the Cloudera platform. In a good data governance strategy, it is important to define roles that allow the business to limit the level of access that users can have to their strategic data assets.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 16, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Cloudera has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner ® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. Many of our customers use multiple solutions—but want to consolidate data security, governance, lineage, and metadata management, so that they don’t have to work with multiple vendors.

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Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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Snowflake

JUNE 5, 2024

At the same time, organizations must ensure the right people have access to the right content, while also protecting sensitive and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and fulfilling a growing list of regulatory requirements. Additional built-in UI’s and privacy enhancements make it even easier to understand and manage sensitive data.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Snowflake Horizon is Snowflake’s built-in governance solution with a unified set of compliance, security, privacy, interoperability, and access capabilities. Snowflake continues to advance Snowflake Horizon with additional capabilities for compliance, security, privacy, interoperability, and access.

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Data Engineering Weekly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Kafka is designed to be a black box to collect all kinds of data, so Kafka doesn't have built-in schema and schema enforcement; this is the biggest problem when integrating with schematized systems like Lakehouse. This capability, termed Union Read, allows both layers to work in tandem for highly efficient and accurate data access.

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Ascend.io

DECEMBER 4, 2024

On average, engineers spend over half of their time maintaining existing systems rather than developing new solutions. Are your tools simple to implement and accessible to users with diverse skill sets? Create a Plan for Integration: Automation tools need to work seamlessly with existing systems to be effective.

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Pinterest Engineering

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This is crucial for applications that require up-to-date information, such as fraud detection systems or recommendation engines. Data Integration : By capturing changes, CDC facilitates seamless data integration between different systems. Finally, the control plane emits enriched metrics to enable effective monitoring of the system.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In medicine, lower sequencing costs and improved clinical access to NGS technology has been shown to increase diagnostic yield for a range of diseases, from relatively well-understood Mendelian disorders, including muscular dystrophy and epilepsy , to rare diseases such as Alagille syndrome.

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Snowflake

JULY 25, 2024

Yet, while retrieval is a fundamental component of any AI application stack, creating a high-quality, high-performance RAG system remains challenging for most enterprises. It supports “fuzzy” search — the service takes in natural language queries and returns the most relevant text results, along with associated metadata.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Some positives (Microsoft Access comes to mind), but some are questionable at best, such as traditional data design principles and data quality and validation at ingestion. Unfortunately, this pipeline was very prone to data quality issues, and the solution in place was a build-then-test system, which ran each night. Enter Tableau.

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