databricks

JUNE 11, 2025

Last year, the promise of data intelligence – building AI that can reason over your data – arrived with Mosaic AI, a comprehensive platform for building, evaluating, monitoring, and securing AI systems. Too many knobs : Agents are complex AI systems with many components, each that have their own knobs.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

There could be technical reasons behind a data acquisition system not being able to collect specific values. Machine Learning algorithms are mathematical algorithms that use arithmetic operations to create prediction systems. Data preparation for machine learning algorithms is usually the first step in any data science project.

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 22, 2025

It is a critical and powerful tool for scalable discovery of relevant data and data flows, which supports privacy controls across Metas systems. It enhances the traceability of data flows within systems, ultimately empowering developers to swiftly implement privacy controls and create innovative products.

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KDnuggets

JUNE 11, 2025

By KDnuggets on June 11, 2025 in Partners Sponsored Content Recommender systems rely on data, but access to truly representative data has long been a challenge for researchers. It joins a growing list of resources helping to close the research-to-production gap in recommender systems.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In the early 90’s, DOS programs like the ones my company made had its own Text UI screen rendering system. This rendering system was easy for me to understand, even on day one. Our rendering system was very memory inefficient, but that could be fixed. By doing so, I got to see every screen of the system.

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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. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here. With that, it’s over to Joshua: 1. and hand-rolled C -code.

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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. We announced the AI Product Day , a 1-day conference that will take place in Paris on March 31. We are looking for sponsors and the ticketing is open.

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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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Unstructured Data Metadata Government Data 112

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. Yet along with the AI hype and excitement comes very appropriate sanity-checks asking whether AI is ready for prime-time. Can it do it without bias?

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KDnuggets

JUNE 10, 2025

As an OLAP system, DuckDB stores data in columns (not rows like OLTP systems), making it highly efficient for analytical queries such as joins, aggregations, and groupings. Unlike conventional OLAP systems that can be sluggish due to processing large volumes of data, DuckDB leverages a columnar, vectorized execution engine.

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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 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.

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KDnuggets

JUNE 9, 2025

Step 0: Prerequisites To run the IQ1_S quantized version, your system must meet the following requirements: GPU Requirements: At least 1x 24GB GPU (e.g., Step 1: Install Dependencies and Ollama Update your system and install the required tools. Download and configure the 1.78-bit bit quantized version (IQ1_S) of the model.

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Telecommunication Data Science Machine Learning Python 131

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 Programming Language Hospitality Insurance 318

ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Data Engineering refers to creating practical designs for systems that can extract, keep, and inspect data at a large scale. Data Engineering is gradually becoming a popular career option for young enthusiasts. However, with so many tools and technologies available, it can be challenging to know where to start. What is Data Engineering?

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Snowflake

JANUARY 8, 2025

Understanding AI as an attack vector Last year, we published an AI security framework that identifies 20 attack vectors against large language models and generative AI systems. Though AI is (still) the hottest technology topic, its not the overriding issue for enterprise security in 2025.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. Spare Cores attempts to make it easier to compare prices across cloud providers.

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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. Airline Avianca printed tickets dated as 3/1 instead of 2/29, thanks to their system not accounting for the leap day. Subscribe to get issues like this in your inbox, every week.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 6, 2025

The incredible promise of the fully autonomous vehicle (AV) and more advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) has been driving the automotive industry for the better part of the last decade. It also supports advanced machine learning and simulation models, crucial for ADAS/AV development, better and more efficiently than on-premises systems.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Corporate conflict recap Automattic is the creator of open source WordPress content management system (CMS), and WordPress powers an incredible 43% of webpages and 65% of CMSes. Imagine Apple decided Spotify was a big enough business threat that it had to take unfair measures to limit Spotify’s growth on the App Store.

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Government Engineering Project AWS 357

Simon Späti

MARCH 11, 2025

Therefore, you’ve probably come across terms like OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) systems, data warehouses, and, more recently, real-time analytical databases. Postgres is powerful, reliable, and flexible enough to handle both transactional and basic analytical workloads.

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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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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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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.

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Metadata Data Utilities Data Warehouse 83

Snowflake

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Sync audience and guest data to email platforms, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, advertising platforms or any other marketing tool that drives personalized travel experiences. Flexible data models : Every travel brand is unique.

Hospitality 105

Hospitality Entertainment Data Governance Government 105

Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 10, 2025

Todays ILA buildings are often larger, with more efficient HVAC systems. Components like security and building access systems have been modernized, but if you dropped a field technician from 1990 into one of todays ILAs, theyd have little difficulty navigating. Current ILA site design. MOFE ISP for rapid on-site installation.

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Transportation Manufacturing Consulting Designing 110

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 For years, companies have operated under the prevailing notion that AI is reserved only for the corporate giants — the ones with the resources to make it work for them.

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Hospitality Medical Government Software Engineer 97

Snowflake

JANUARY 27, 2025

Additionally, the infrastructure supporting our systems was unreliable under heavy load, requiring manual retries and frustrating developers with lost productivity. These have been the secret sauce to Snowflakes rocket-ship growth. Lets start from the beginning. In 2012, Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes founded Snowflake.

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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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Metadata Algorithm Systems Engineering 93

Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This is particularly true in the data center space, where new protocols like Precision Time Protocol (PTP) are allowing systems to be synchronized down to nanosecond precision. The difference between two approaches can mean differences of over 100 microseconds, creating challenges for services that consume time from both systems.

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Algorithm Utilities Systems Engineering 98

The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We don’t frequently have CEOs on The Pragmatic Engineer: in fact, today is the first issue when we’re talking with a CEO – partially – about their CEO job. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to go from a developer, to eventually become the CEO of a large and growing company.

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Jesse Anderson

MAY 5, 2025

Finally, Shane outlines how observability is crucial for emerging AI/ML workflows like RAG pipelines, discussing the monitoring of vector databases (like Pinecone), unstructured data, and the entire AI system lifecycle, concluding with a look at Monte Carlo’s exciting roadmap, including AI-powered troubleshooting agents.

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Unstructured Data Finance Metadata Architecture 130

Snowflake

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A consolidated data system to accommodate a big(ger) WHOOP When a company experiences exponential growth over a short period, it’s easy for its data foundation to feel a bit like it was built on the fly. That’s why we’ve collected these migration success stories to help you get started on your migration to Snowflake.

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Data Warehouse Cloud PostgreSQL Data Lake 105