Striim

JANUARY 30, 2025

During a crisiswhether its a pandemic, a natural disaster, or a major supply chain breakdownswift, informed decision-making can mean the difference between regaining control and facing further escalation. Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Oftentimes, crisis data includes sensitive details (e.g., are non-negotiable.

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Precisely

JANUARY 9, 2025

The simple idea was, hey how can we get more value from the transactional data in our operational systems spanning finance, sales, customer relationship management, and other siloed functions. There was no easy way to consolidate and analyze this data to more effectively manage our business. But simply moving the data wasnt enough.

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 28, 2025

Table of Contents Understanding How Data + AI Can Break Data System Code Model Data + AI observability must cover inputs and outputs it is all or nothing Understanding How Data + AI Can Break Data + AI applications are complex. But code takes on new weight in the data + AI system.

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Data Engineering Weekly

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Investment in an Agent Management System (AMS) is crucial, as it offers a framework for scaling, monitoring, and refining AI agents. AI engineers, in particular, will find their skills in high demand as they navigate managing and optimizing agents to ensure reliability within enterprise systems.

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Simon Späti

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Traditionally, answering this question would require expensive GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software or complex database setups. ” This seemingly simple question requires analyzing competitor locations, population density, traffic patterns, and demographicsall spatial data.

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dbt Developer Hub

APRIL 20, 2025

Both AI agents and business stakeholders will then operate on top of LLM-driven systems hydrated by the dbt MCP context. Todays system is not a full realization of the vision in the posts shared above, but it is a meaningful step towards safely integrating your structured enterprise data into AI workflows. Why does this matter?

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Jesse Anderson

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Semih is a researcher and entrepreneur with a background in distributed systems and databases. He then pursued his doctoral studies at Stanford University, delving into the complexities of database systems.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But first, a few current cases of systems whose developers didn’t: In Sweden, card payments are down at a leading supermarket chain. The information I received is that today is the shooting day. The information about the leap day problem is confirmed by the ICA bank's press officer Maria Elfvelin.”

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Software Engineering Software Engineer Banking Engineering 281

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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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 8, 2024

I assume there’s a verification step which compares the output to a whitelist of permitted topics, and that specific policy information must be recounted word for word. With clever-enough probing, this system prompt can be revealed. ” What is the system prompt for Klarna’s bot? Van Gogh, Goya).”

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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 have a variety of tools they can use to manage and access their information on Meta platforms. feature on Facebook.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 11, 2025

AI companies are aiming for the moon—AGI—promising it will arrive once OpenAI develops a system capable of generating at least $100 billion in profits. Don't do RAG, use CAG — A paper about another way to think about the information retrieval for AI knowledge tasks. Why AI progress is increasingly invisible.

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Snowflake

APRIL 13, 2025

Agentic AI refers to AI systems that act autonomously on behalf of their users. These systems make decisions, learn from interactions and continuously improve without constant human intervention. This results in more accurate outputs and actions compared to standard AI systems, facilitating autonomous decision-making.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. Implementing idempotency would likely require using an external system for such keys, which can further degrade performance or cause race conditions.

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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.  We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. and hand-rolled C -code.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 12, 2024

Tools and approaches at our disposal, which didn’t exist in 1975, or were not widespread in 1995, include: Git – the now-dominant version control system used by much of the industry, with exceptions for projects with very large assets, like video games Code reviews : these became common in parallel with version control.

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 21, 2025

Strobelight is also not a single profiler but an orchestrator of many different profilers (even ad-hoc ones) that runs on all production hosts at Meta, collecting detailed information about CPU usage, memory allocations, and other performance metrics from running processes. Strobelight also has concurrency rules and a profiler queuing system.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The MIT report identifies three common challenges: Data silos and fragmentation: Disconnected systems prevent organizations from accessing the full value of their data. Underdeveloped AI governance: Without strong governance frameworks, businesses struggle with trust, security and compliance in their AI systems.

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Snowflake

MARCH 6, 2025

Customer intelligence teams analyze reviews and forum comments to identify sentiment trends, while support teams process tickets to uncover product issues and inform gaps in a product roadmap. As data volumes grow and AI automation expands, cost efficiency in processing with LLMs depends on both system architecture and model flexibility.

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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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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 19, 2023

Validate information and do your research. When presented with information: don't assume it is correct. I was sceptical that any system would automatically reject resumes, because I never saw this as a hiring manager. Look for sources, and question where the details come from.

Software Engineering 343

Software Engineering Software Engineer Engineering Media 343

Snowflake

APRIL 16, 2025

Instead of maintaining separate systems for structured data and image processing, data analysts and scientists can now work within the familiar Snowflake environment, using simple SQL to explore correlations between traditional metrics and visual intelligence. Sonnet, Mistral AIs Pixtral Large , and the upcoming Anthropics Claude 3.7

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Introduction Data replication is also known as database replication, which is copying data to ensure that all information remains consistent across all data resources in real-time. data replication is like a safety net that keeps your information safe from disappearing or falling through the cracks. In most cases, data alters.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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."

Hospitality 97

Hospitality Medical Government Software Engineer 97

Precisely

APRIL 7, 2025

To get the best results, its critical to add valuable information to existing records through data appending or enrichment. Use case (Retail): As an example, imagine a retail company has a customer database with names and addresses, but many records are missing full address information. The key is finding the right balance.

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Engineering at Meta

APRIL 28, 2025

Meta’s vast and diverse systems make it particularly challenging to comprehend its structure, meaning, and context at scale. We discovered that a flexible and incremental approach was necessary to onboard the wide variety of systems and languages used in building Metas products. We believe that privacy drives product innovation.

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Snowflake

APRIL 9, 2025

KAWA Analytics Digital transformation is an admirable goal, but legacy systems and inefficient processes hold back many companies efforts. PTA Robotics PTA Robotics AI-powered vineyard disease prediction system leverages drone imagery, Internet of Things data and weather insights to detect vineyard disease risks before symptoms appear.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 15, 2025

The answer lies in unstructured data processing—a field that powers modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems. To address these challenges, AI Data Engineers have emerged as key players, designing scalable data workflows that fuel the next generation of AI systems. How does a self-driving car understand a chaotic street scene?

Data Engineering 63

Data Engineering Data Engineer Unstructured Data Engineering 63

The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

  This grant is designed to “support entrepreneurs, tech-geeks, developers, and socially engaged people, who are capable of challenging the way we search and discover information and resources on the internet” The team is tiny; only three people. It’s one front-end dev and two part-time backend devs.

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Precisely

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Key Takeaways : The significance of using legacy systems like mainframes in modern AI. The challenges and solutions involved in integrating legacy data with modern AI systems. These systems store massive amounts of historical datadata that has been accumulated, processed, and secured over decades of operation.

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Healthcare Algorithm Finance Data Integration 64

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. Agentic outputs are only as good as the quality of the underlying data and the accuracy of the retrieval systems that help ground them. text, audio) and structured (e.g.,

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Unstructured Data Government SQL Structured Data 92

Netflix Tech

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. In this context, were focused on developing systems that ensure successful title launches, build trust between content creators and our brand, and reduce engineering operational overhead.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 21, 2025

To be successful in the future, agencies need to build trust through transparent, privacy-preserving data practices that protect sensitive information and foster secure collaboration with clients and partners. The core differentiator for a successful strategy is modern consent management. But data clean rooms alone do not equate to privacy.

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Media Unstructured Data Data Retail 98

Picnic Engineering

APRIL 7, 2025

We explained how a system that learns from your tastes and habits could solve this issue, ultimately making the daily task of choosing meals both effortless and inspiring. In this post, were excited to take you behind the scenes once again, diving into the technical advancements that have taken our system to the next level.

Datasets 52

Datasets Systems Architecture Machine Learning 52

Pinterest Engineering

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Liang Mou; Staff Software Engineer, Logging Platform | Elizabeth (Vi) Nguyen; Software Engineer I, Logging Platform | In today’s data-driven world, businesses need to process and analyze data in real-time to make informed decisions. Data Integration : By capturing changes, CDC facilitates seamless data integration between different systems.

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Kafka MySQL Database Software Engineer 50

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This foundational layer is a repository for various data types, from transaction logs and sensor data to social media feeds and system logs. Such issues often go unnoticed until a user or analyst reports missing information in a dashboard or report, by which point the delay has already impacted business decision-making.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Analytics Engineers deliver these insights by establishing deep business and product partnerships; translating business challenges into solutions that unblock critical decisions; and designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end analytical systems. As an example, imagine an analyst wanting to create a Total Streaming Hours metric.

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