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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

Netflix Tech

Furthermore, it was difficult to transfer innovations from one model to another, given that most are independently trained despite using common data sources. Key insights from this shiftinclude: A Data-Centric Approach : Shifting focus from model-centric strategies, which heavily rely on feature engineering, to a data-centric one.

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Data Engineering Weekly #221

Data Engineering Weekly

Dagster Components is now here Components provides a modular architecture that enables data practitioners to self-serve while maintaining engineering quality. Understanding this fact will help data tools break new ground with the advancement of AI agents. and Lite 2.0) to pinpoint drop-offs and high retention sections.

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Databricks Delta Lake: A Scalable Data Lake Solution

ProjectPro

Want to process peta-byte scale data with real-time streaming ingestions rates, build 10 times faster data pipelines with 99.999% reliability, witness 20 x improvement in query performance compared to traditional data lakes, enter the world of Databricks Delta Lake now. Delta Lake is a game-changer for big data.

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

Netflix Tech

Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2025

ProjectPro

With the global data volume projected to surge from 120 zettabytes in 2023 to 181 zettabytes by 2025, PySpark's popularity is soaring as it is an essential tool for efficient large scale data processing and analyzing vast datasets. Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) are the fundamental data structure in Apache Spark.

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Open-Sourcing AvroTensorDataset: A Performant TensorFlow Dataset For Processing Avro Data

LinkedIn Engineering

However, we found that many of our workloads were bottlenecked by reading multiple terabytes of input data. To remove this bottleneck, we built AvroTensorDataset , a TensorFlow dataset for reading, parsing, and processing Avro data. Avro serializes or deserializes data based on data types provided in the schema.

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Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

Engineering at Meta

We’ve partnered with Voltron Data and the Arrow community to align and converge Apache Arrow with Velox , Meta’s open source execution engine. This new convergence helps Meta and the larger community build data management systems that are unified, more efficient, and composable.