databricks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Many of our customers are shifting from monolithic prompts with general-purpose models to specialized compound AI systems to achieve the quality needed for.

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databricks

JUNE 12, 2024

Over the last year, we have seen a surge of commercial and open-source foundation models showing strong reasoning abilities on general knowledge tasks.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 12, 2024

By the end of 2024, we’re aiming to continue to grow our infrastructure build-out that will include 350,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs as part of a portfolio that will feature compute power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s. RSC has accelerated our open and responsible AI research by helping us build our first generation of advanced AI models.

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Building Portfolio Utilities Data Storage 145

Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Summary A significant amount of time in data engineering is dedicated to building connections and semantic meaning around pieces of information. In this episode Brian Platz explains how JSON-LD can be used as a shared representation of linked data for building semantic data products. Hex brings everything together.

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Building SQL BI Python 189

Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 26, 2024

Summary Any software system that survives long enough will require some form of migration or evolution. When that system is responsible for the data layer the process becomes more challenging. As you have gone through successive migration projects, how has that influenced the ways that you think about architecting data systems?

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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. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team.

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Systems Designing Data Lake SQL 130

Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Summary Building streaming applications has gotten substantially easier over the past several years. Decodable was built with a mission of eliminating all of the painful aspects of developing and deploying stream processing systems for engineering teams. How can you get the best results for your use case? Rudderstack : ![Rudderstack]([link]

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Jean-Georges Perrin was tasked with designing a new data platform implementation at PayPal and wound up building a data mesh. It's supposed to make building smarter, faster, and more flexible data infrastructures a breeze. What are the technical systems that you are relying on to power the different data domains?

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Building Machine Learning Metadata Data Integration 147

Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 5, 2024

In this episode he explains his approach to building AI in a more human-like fashion and the emphasis on learning rather than statistical prediction. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines.

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Building Data Lake High Quality Data Machine Learning 147

Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 28, 2024

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started. Your first 30 days are free! Data lakes are notoriously complex.

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Building Data Lake High Quality Data Machine Learning 147

Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 28, 2024

Summary Monitoring and auditing IT systems for security events requires the ability to quickly analyze massive volumes of unstructured log data. The majority of products that are available either require too much effort to structure the logs, or aren't fast enough for interactive use cases.

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Data Lake Building High Quality Data AWS 147

Knowledge Hut

MARCH 22, 2024

I have comprehensively analyzed the area of physical security, particularly the ongoing discussion surrounding fail safe vs fail-safe secure electric strike locking systems. These two distinct approaches offer unique strategies for securing buildings and valuables. What are Fail-Safe Door Locks?

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Systems Electronics Hospitality Architecture 105

Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For example, we recently published an updated white paper, “ Meta’s Approach to Safer Private Messaging on Messenger and Instagram Direct Messaging ,” t hat sets out the industry-leading safety systems and tools available on Messenger. The post Building end-to-end security for Messenger appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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Building Designing Consulting Accessibility 145

Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 16, 2023

As the capabilities of these systems has improved and become more accessible, the target of what self-serve means changes. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management RudderStack helps you build a customer data platform on your warehouse or data lake. Who are the target users?

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Business Intelligence Building Data Lake BI 147

Knowledge Hut

MAY 6, 2024

Applying systems thinking views a system as a set of interconnected and interdependent components defined by its limits and more than the sum of their parts (subsystems). When one component of a system is altered, the effects frequently spread across the entire system. are the main objectives of systems thinking.

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Systems Transportation Certification Healthcare 98

Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Were explaining the end-to-end systems the Facebook app leverages to deliver relevant content to people. At Facebooks scale, the systems built to support and overcome these challenges require extensive trade-off analyses, focused optimizations, and architecture built to allow our engineers to push for the same user and business outcomes.

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Systems Architecture Engineering Data Pipeline 76

The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 12, 2024

” Brooks agrees with this observation, and suggests a radical solution: have as few senior programmers as possible, and build a team around each one – a bit like how a hospital surgeon leads a whole team. Brooks discusses software in the context of producing operating systems, pre-internet. A most interesting addition!

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Engineering Programming Language Hospitality Programming 274

Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 27, 2023

Summary Data persistence is one of the most challenging aspects of computer systems. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team. Why Postgres? Rudderstack]([link] Introducing RudderStack Profiles.

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Database Building PostgreSQL BI 130

The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 1, 2023

Juraj included system monitoring parts which monitor the server’s capacity he runs the app on: The monitoring page on the Rides app And it doesn’t end here. Juraj created a systems design explainer on how he built this project, and the technologies used: The systems design diagram for the Rides application The app uses: Node.js

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Education Project PostgreSQL Software Engineer 363

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.    He then worked at the casual games company Zynga, building their in-game advertising platform.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines. What are the pain points that are still prevalent in lakehouse architectures as compared to warehouse or vertically integrated systems?

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Data Lake High Quality Data Data Warehouse Google Cloud 262

Confluent

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Confluent enables real-time, reliable, scalable, and secure communication between IoT devices, applications, and backend systems. Streamline data processing and unlock analytics to boost productivity and time to market while lowering infrastructure costs.

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Building Data Data Process Systems 119

The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A €150K ($165K) grant, three people, and 10 months to build it. We recently covered how CockroachDB joins the trend of moving from open source to proprietary and why Oxide decided to keep using it with self-support , regardless Web hosting:  Netlify : chosen thanks to their super smooth preview system with SSR support.

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Cloud AWS Metadata Cloud Computing 278

databricks

MAY 14, 2024

Successfully building GenAI applications means going beyond just leveraging the latest cutting-edge models. It requires the development of compound AI systems that integrate.

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Building Systems IT 98

Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Summary Kafka has become a ubiquitous technology, offering a simple method for coordinating events and data across different systems. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team.

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Kafka Data Lake High Quality Data SQL 245

The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 11, 2023

A very popular open-source solution for systems and services monitoring. Prometheus is part of the Cloud Native Foundation, membership of which indicates that it’s safe to build on top of Prometheus, as it’s actively maintained and will continue to be. It evaluates rules and can trigger alerts. But why is this?

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AWS Software Engineer Software Engineering Google Cloud 318

The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He’s solved interesting engineering challenges along the way, too – like building observability for Amazon’s EC2 offering, and being one of the first engineers on Uber’s observability platform. I wrote code for drivers on Windows, and started to put a basic observability system in place.

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Software Engineer Software Engineering Architecture Media 268

The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 1, 2023

Senior Engineers are not only expected to lead significant projects in their teams, but they have a say in whether that feature is worth building or not. They strive to build things fast, but also know when we have to slow down to go faster.” Address systemic issues. Reduce support costs by addressing systemic issues.

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Software Engineer Software Engineering Engineering Designing 245

The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Willem Spruijt is a software engineer whom I worked on the same team with at Uber in Amsterdam, building payments systems. Going from idea, to adding, to building and shipping this to all customers, is something you rarely see in bigger companies. We cover one out of four topics in today’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue.

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Software Engineer Software Engineering Engineering Building 253

The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Bun was mostly built by Jared Sumner , a former Stripe engineer, and recipient of the Thiel Fellowship (a grant of $100,000 for young people to drop out of school and build things, founded by venture capitalist, Peter Thiel). Technological innovation rarely happens in a vacuum; it builds on previous technologies. world by storm.

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Programming Language Project Coding Engineering 255

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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Banking Utilities Database Engineering 221

The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 19, 2024

A first, smaller wave of these stories included Magic.dev raising $100M in funding from Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub from 2018-2021,) and Daniel Gross (cofounder of search engine Cue which Apple acquired in 2013,) to build a “superhuman software engineer.” And COBOL was just one of many attempts.

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Software Engineer Software Engineering Programming Language Media 276

Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Summary Stream processing systems have long been built with a code-first design, adding SQL as a layer on top of the existing framework. Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines. There are numerous stream processing engines, near-real-time database engines, streaming SQL systems, etc.

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SQL Data Lake High Quality Data Data Pipeline 173

Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 29, 2023

RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team. What is driving the broad adoption of columnar stores as a separate environment from transactional systems? Datafold : ![Datafold]([link]

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Database BI SQL Machine Learning 189