Data Engineering Weekly

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Conclusion: Embrace, Adapt, and Innovate Looking ahead to 2025, enterprises and professionals must embrace the opportunities presented by AI agents, adapt their skill sets to align with new technologies, and innovate to stay ahead in a competitive landscape.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We also co-presented talks at EkoParty, DEF CON, Hardwear.io, Pwn2own, and other security research summits. We received more than 100 bug reports and awarded over $320,000 in total.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

According to Tomasz, an AI use-case presents the opportunity for cost reduction if one of three criteria are met: 1. While those numbers are certainly impressive by modern standards, they still present some key limitations for the use of AI. It’s mostly cost reduction. Klarna cut two-thirds of their head count. Repetitive jobs 2.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

According to the survey reports, around 90% of the present data was generated only in the past two years. Introduction In this technical era, Big Data is proven as revolutionary as it is growing unexpectedly. Big data is nothing but the vast volume of datasets measured in terabytes or petabytes or even more.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. In this context, they refer to a count very close to accurate, presented with minimal delays. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance.

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Snowflake

APRIL 9, 2025

Since snowboards often have a wooden core, and because a snowboard is the traditional trophy for the Snowflake Startup Challenge, were going to go ahead and say that the snowboard trophy qualifies as a present for the fifth anniversary of our Startup Challenge. The judges will deliberate live before naming the 2025 Grand Prize winner.

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Zalando Engineering

MARCH 6, 2025

Those without the capacity relied on an existing unified data source, such as our Presentation API, inheriting its version of product data. To serve the presentation view of a Product Offer, a multi-stage event-driven system merged Product, Price, and Stock events into a single structure. This led to competing sources of truth.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article is the first in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. It is challenging to scale such bespoke solutions to ever-changing and increasingly complex businessneeds.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Let’s dive into the evolution of backend development, from computing’s early days up to the present, and try and predict what the future holds. It was a high-pressure environment, and yet we needed to build systems for the present, and also for unpredictable but ever-increasing future loads.

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Netflix Tech

JANUARY 6, 2025

This situation presents both challenges and opportunities; while it may be more difficult to make initial progress, there are plenty of easy wins to capitalize on. These elements are critical for a titles eligibility in a row, accurate personalization, and an engaging presentation. artwork, trailers, supplemental messages).

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 1, 2023

In these articles there are a lot of cool presentations you should watch to understand deeper how dbt works. Introduction slides about dbt — This is a presentation I often give, you can also watch a talk I gave in French , there is also a great introduction by Seattle Data Guy that I recommend.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 20, 2023

I cannot count how often I explained to candidates how Uber’s Senior 2 level was pretty much the same as “staff” at their present employer, and how our staff level was more like “senior staff” at Google. And this update also applies to how I can present my achievements as a manager at Uber.

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KDnuggets

JULY 15, 2024

I claim it is and present the evidence for that in the form of 10 free data engineering courses. Is it possible to learn data engineering for free?

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article will present the main approaches to text summarization currently employed, as well as discuss some of their characteristics.

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Scott Logic

MARCH 6, 2025

Bolt knows none of this and proudly presents its Word Game as though it were the finished article. Theyd also have enough experience to understand that they dont need to know everything or have detailed requirements, tasks (whether programming or not) can be iterative and collaborative.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s heterogeneous data ecosystems, integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources presents several obstacles: data often exists in various formats, with inconsistencies in definitions, structures, and quality standards.

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Simon Späti

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

MVC is an interesting concept from the late 70s that separates the View (presentation) from the Controller via the Model. This design pattern got me thinking: Wouldn’t it be convenient to separate the presentation from the storage through a data modeling layer, similar to the model layer?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 2, 2023

On 6 August 2021, Natalia's name was changed to "Natalia Stadler:" Natalie Stadler was present in the 2021 conference lineup, as well as for the 2022 one. Given the timing, it seems highly likely that the conference's organizers invented a woman profile to address the concerns raised by Matty Stratton.

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Pinterest Engineering

APRIL 4, 2025

Offline Experiments We now present offline experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of each modeling decision. Summary In this work, we presented an LLM-based relevance system for Pinterest Search. Figure 3: Diagram of the proposed search relevance system at Pinterest. in search fulfillment rates.

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dbt Developer Hub

APRIL 20, 2025

The dbt MCP server presents our early explorations, but we anticipate that the Community will find many more. Determining the most useful tools for the dbt MCP What are the best and most useful set of tools to enable human in the loop and AI driven LLM access to structured data?

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Snowflake

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yet, the complexity and computational demands of LLM inference present a challenge. Large language models (LLMs) are at the heart of generative AI transformations, driving solutions across industries from efficient customer support to simplified data analysis. Inference costs remain prohibitive for many workloads.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 15, 2025

Complexity and Variability Each type of unstructured data—text, images, videos, or audio—presents unique challenges. Adopting an intelligent scheduling engine to process data using GPU and CPU, adjusting to the intensity of the workload to balance cost and efficiency, presents a unique challenge.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Obtaining this data from Hive in a format that can be presented to users is not straightforward. However, copying and storing data from the warehouse in these other systems presented material computational and storage costs that were not offset by the overall effectiveness of the cache, making this infeasible as well.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 19, 2023

When presented with information: don't assume it is correct. ChatGPT can be an unexpectedly useful to break down jargon terms: just don't forget to verify its definition, as ChatGPT can make things up. Validate information and do your research. Look for sources, and question where the details come from.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Managed Apache Spark environments — such as Databricks, Amazon EMR, and certain Cloudera deployments — can present teams with a plethora of pain points, which may include complexity, unpredictable costs, security concerns, or performance issues.

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Christophe Blefari

MAY 18, 2023

As I often do I've overlooked the 70 presentations and here a medley of what I've liked. The presentation gives another look at the semantic layer. During the demo, Llyod does some data analysis in the browser and it's just mind-blowing 🤯 At the same time someone Google also did a Calcite presentation.

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Scott Logic

APRIL 16, 2025

But to do-so safely, we need to educate people regarding the strengths and weaknesses, the risks and opportunities this technology presents. Rather it is a tool we are placing in the hands of our engineers, product owners, and, if we are to maximise the benefits, we should be putting it in everyones hands.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The cost of benchmarking Given the team has relatively little funding: how much does infrastructure cost?

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Precisely

MARCH 18, 2025

As Gartner analyst Saul Judah stated in his presentation, How to Create a Data and Analytics Strategy for Real Business Results: The goal is to create a business strategy that is infused with data, analytics and AI not a data strategy or an analytics strategy. “ Prioritize data quality. So, do these sound familiar?

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We've partnered with Springboard, the leading data science bootcamp offering personalized 1:1 mentorship, dedicated career support, proven outcomes, and an unbeatable money-back job guarantee, to present a handpicked collection of resources to supercharge your data science journey in the coming year.

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Start Data Engineering

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Presentation 3. Job description 2.2.2. Potential referral/hiring manager research 2.2.3. Company research 2.3. Data 2.3.1. Dataset Search 2.3.2. Generate fake data 2.4. Outcome 2.4.1. Visualization 2.5. Conclusion 4. Read these 1.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Sponsored Content Once again the conference brings together researchers, professionals, and educators to present and discuss advances in Data and AI across various applications within industry. The Feature Store Summit aims to combine advances in technology and new use cases for managing data for AI.

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dbt Developer Hub

JANUARY 22, 2025

Put another way, SQL Comprehension tools recognize SQL code and deduce more information about that SQL than is present in the tokens themselves. Remember that comprehension is deducing more information than is present in the plain text of the query; by comprehending more, you can validate more.

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