Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

While deploying Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta, we’ve developed a simplified version of the protocol (Simple Precision Time Protocol – SPTP), that can offer the same level of clock synchronization as unicast PTPv2 more reliably and with fewer resources. In our own tests, SPTP boasts comparable performance to PTP, but with significant improvements in CPU, memory, and network utilization.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Want to learn Python to kickstart your career in data? Here are five free courses to help you master Python for data science.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

How enterprise-grade data management creates better and more efficient care. In the last few years, the acceptance of telehealth has become more widespread as patients and providers found they could maintain continuity through phone and video collaboration, instead of in-person visits. In many cases, a level of care that once required a drive to the clinic or hospital could be delivered over a mobile phone or laptop, with no travel and no waiting room.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Confluent has hired many Noteable employees to help make application development easier for both Kafka and Flink developers.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This code based tutorial provides a brief introduction to Sentiment Analysis, a method used to predict emotions, similar to a digital psychologist.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Earlier this year at Snowflake Summit, we announced the public launch of the Snowflake Performance Index (SPI), an aggregate index for measuring real-world improvements in Snowflake performance experienced by customers over time. In this post, we provide our biannual update to showcase the latest improvements. The Snowflake performance philosophy Our product philosophy revolves around a continuous quest to enhance Snowflake performance, with a particular focus on refining the core database engin

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These days, keeping up with the latest advancements in GenAI is harder than saying “multimodal model.” It seems like every week some shiny new solution launches with the lofty promise of transforming our lives, our work, and the way we feed our dogs. Data engineering is no exception. Already in the wee months of 2024, GenAI is beginning to upend the way data teams think about ingesting, transforming, and surfacing data to consumers.

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Precisely

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Precisely Women in Technology (PWIT) program was first established to create a space for women in the organization to come together. As the program has evolved throughout the years, more and more resources have become available to women such as mentorship opportunities on both sides; fireside chats with leaders; a book club; and, much more. Each month, a member from the network is selected to participate in a Q&A to share more about her experience as a woman in technology.

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WeCloudData

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Online Shopping Redefined: Predicting Shopper Behavior with Machine Learning The post Online Shopping Redefined: Predicting Shopper Behavior with Machine Learning appeared first on WeCloudData.

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Machine Learning 52

Robinhood

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information and investing. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in. … Authored by: Grace L., Chandra K. and Sreeram R. from Robinhood Data Infrastructure Robinhood adheres to a data-first philosophy.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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