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A Tour Around Buck2, Meta's New Build System

Tweag

Buck2 is a from-scratch rewrite of Buck , a polyglot, monorepo build system that was developed and used at Meta (Facebook), and shares a few similarities with Bazel. As you may know, the Scalable Builds Group at Tweag has a strong interest in such scalable build systems. Meta recently announced they have made Buck2 open-source.

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Data Quality Dimensions: How Do You Measure Up? (+ Downloadable Scorecard)

Precisely

For example, if your human resources information systems say an employee doesn’t work for your company anymore, yet your payroll says he’s still receiving a check, that’s inconsistent. Customer information, likewise, is often inconsistent across multiple systems such as CRM and ERP. That data quality dimension is called “timeliness.”

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Gen AI in Action: Customers’ Cortex AI Stories and Outcomes

Snowflake

Alberta Health Services ER doctors automate note-taking to treat 15% more patients The integrated health system of Alberta, Canada’s third-most-populous province, with 4.5 But Cortex AI worked out of the box, integrating into our system seamlessly and translating into huge productivity gains for the team."

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Data logs: The latest evolution in Meta’s access tools

Engineering at Meta

Here we explore initial system designs we considered, an overview of the current architecture, and some important principles Meta takes into account in making data accessible and easy to understand. Users can retrieve a copy of their information on Instagram through Download Your Data and on WhatsApp through Request Account Information.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Happy Leap Day!

The Pragmatic Engineer

But first, a few current cases of systems whose developers didn’t: In Sweden, card payments are down at a leading supermarket chain. Airline Avianca printed tickets dated as 3/1 instead of 2/29, thanks to their system not accounting for the leap day. It’s 29th February, a once-every-four-year occurrence.

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Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

Engineering at Meta

Because there are so many different things happening in these systems powered by so many different technologies. Strobelight also has concurrency rules and a profiler queuing system. This provides just the right amount of data without impacting the profiled services or overburdening the systems that store Strobelight data.