The Pragmatic Engineer
OCTOBER 18, 2024
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Simon Späti
JULY 28, 2024
A Vim-Inspired Approach to Efficient Note Management with Obsidian and Markdown
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Robinhood
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Robinhood Crypto’s commitment to expanding access and maintaining a safe, easy-to-use platform deepens with the addition of 4 digital assets Today, Robinhood Crypto announced the addition of Solana (SOL), Pepe (PEPE), Cardano (ADA) & XRP (XRP) to its U.S. platform, bringing the total number of cryptocurrencies available for trading to 19. You can see a full list of crypto assets currently available in the U.S. here.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Build an LLM application by easily picking and dropping components and connecting them, such as a vector store, web search, memory, and custom prompt.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Rockset
JUNE 21, 2024
I’m excited to share that OpenAI has completed the acquisition of Rockset. We are thrilled to join the OpenAI team and bring our technology and expertise to building safe and beneficial AGI. From the start, our vision at Rockset was to fundamentally transform the way data-driven applications were built. We developed our search and analytics database, taking full advantage of the cloud, to eliminate the complexity inherent in the data infrastructure needed for these apps.
Yelp Engineering
OCTOBER 6, 2024
The Yelp Reservations service (yelp_res) is the service that powers reservations on Yelp. It was acquired along with Seatme in 2013, and is a Django service and webapp. It powers the reservation backend and logic for Yelp Guest Manager, our iPad app for restaurants, and handles diner and partner flows that create reservations. Along with that, it serves a web UI and backend API for our Yelp Reservations app, which has been superseded by Yelp Guest Manager but is still used by many of our restaur
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Engineering at Meta
MARCH 12, 2024
Marking a major investment in Meta’s AI future, we are announcing two 24k GPU clusters. We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extract high throughput and reliability for various AI workloads. We use this cluster design for Llama 3 training. We are strongly committed to open compute and open source.
Confluent
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution. Read the full statement by Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent.
databricks
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Mosaic AI Model Training now supports fine-tuning up to 131K context length for Llama 3.1 models. More efficient training at long sequence lengths is made possible by several optimizations highlighted in this post.
Rock the JVM
MAY 22, 2024
by Herbert Kateu 1. Introduction This article is a follow-up to the websocket article that was published previously. To recap, we created an in-memory chat application using WebSockets with the help of the Http4s library. The chat application had a variety of features implemented through commands directly in the chat window such as the ability to create users, create chat rooms, and switch between chat rooms.
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.
The Pragmatic Engineer
APRIL 21, 2024
See a longer version of this article here: Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges. Sometimes the best explanations of how a technology solution works come from the software engineers who built it. To explain how ChatGPT (and other large language models) operate, I turned to the ChatGPT engineering team. "How does ChatGPT work, under the hood?
ArcGIS
MAY 7, 2024
Discover the exciting new features of ArcGIS Pro 3.3. From water flow modeling to direct PDF support, this release has it all. Read our blog to learn more.
Robinhood
MAY 30, 2024
Robinhood Crypto customers in the United States can now use our API to view crypto market data, manage portfolios and account information, and place crypto orders programmatically Today, we are excited to announce the Robinhood Crypto trading API , ushering in a new era of convenience, efficiency, and strategy for our most seasoned crypto traders. Robinhood Crypto customers in the United States can use our new trading API to set up advanced and automated trading strategies that allow them to st
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Where can you find projects dealing with advanced ML topics? GitHub is a perfect source with its many repositories. I’ve selected ten to talk about in this article.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Tweag
JANUARY 17, 2024
I recently merged linear let- and where-bindings in GHC. Which means that we’ll have these in GHC 9.10, which is cause for celebration for me. Though they are much overdue, so maybe I should instead apologise to you. Anyway, I thought I’d take the opportunity to discuss some of GHC’s inner workings and how they explain some of the features of linear types in Haskell.
Data Engineering Weekly
AUGUST 6, 2024
TL;DR Aswin and I are thrilled to announce the release of the first version of our comprehensive guide for evaluating Change Data Capture. CDC Evaluation Guide Google Sheet Link: [link] CDC Evaluation Guide Github Link: [link] Change Data Capture (CDC) is a powerful technology in data engineering that allows for continuously capturing changes (inserts, updates, and deletes) made to source systems.
DoorDash Engineering
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
We reviewed the architecture of our global search at DoorDash in early 2022 and concluded that our rapid growth meant within three years we wouldn’t be able to scale the system efficiently, particularly as global search shifted from store-only to a hybrid item-and-store search experience. Our analysis identified Elasticsearch as our architecture’s primary bottleneck.
Engineering at Meta
JUNE 12, 2024
As we continue to focus our AI research and development on solving increasingly complex problems, one of the most significant and challenging shifts we’ve experienced is the sheer scale of computation required to train large language models (LLMs). Traditionally, our AI model training has involved a training massive number of models that required a comparatively smaller number of GPUs.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
Confluent
JULY 29, 2024
Apache Kafka 3.8 adds 17 new KIPs (13 for Core, 3 for Streams & 1 for Connect). Highlights include 2 new Docker images, the ability to set task assignors, and more!
databricks
JULY 23, 2024
In this blog, we are excited to share Databricks's journey in migrating to Unity Catalog for enhanced data governance. We'll discuss our high-level strategy and the tools we developed to facilitate the migration. Our goal is to highlight the benefits of Unity Catalog and make you feel confident about transitioning to it.
Snowflake
APRIL 8, 2024
In 2020, Snowflake announced a new global competition to recognize the work of early-stage startups building their apps — and their businesses — on Snowflake, offering up to $250,000 in investment as the top prize. Four years later, the Snowflake Startup Challenge has grown into a premiere showcase for emerging startups, garnering interest from companies in over 100 countries and offering a prize package featuring a portion of up to $1 million in potential investment opportunities and exclusive
The Pragmatic Engineer
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their revenue. This article was originally published a week ago, on 3 October 2024, in The Pragmatic Engineer.
Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network
In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.
ArcGIS
OCTOBER 21, 2024
By 2050, projected atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could nearly double, causing a 4.4°C temperature increase by the end of the century. Our study projected over 53% of Türkiye's Aegean olive-growing regions may become unsuitable for cultivation. Using GIS and ArcGIS Living Atlas Layers, we can identify vulnerable areas in future conditions and assess climate change impacts on Türkiye's significant olive production for conservation and land management.
Robinhood
OCTOBER 10, 2024
When Robinhood was founded, we set out to build a platform that gives everyone access to the financial markets. Over the last decade, we’ve disrupted and changed the industry for the better, becoming the first U.S. retail broker to offer commission-free trading, and saving investors billions in the process. In recent years, we’ve expanded our offering, ushering in a number of new cutting-edge products and services that help everyone – regardless of income – trade, invest, and earn.
KDnuggets
MARCH 27, 2024
Learn everything about data science by exploring our curated collection of free courses from top universities, covering essential topics from math and programming to machine learning, and mastering the nine steps to become a job-ready data scientist.
Tweag
MARCH 6, 2024
Three years ago, a blog post introduced destination-passing style (DPS) programming in Haskell, focusing on array processing, for which the API was made safe thanks to Linear Haskell. Today, I’ll present a slightly different API to manipulate arbitrary data types in a DPS fashion, and show why it can be useful for some parts of your programs. The present blog post is mostly based on my recent paper Destination-passing style programming: a Haskell implementation , published at JFLA 2024.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
Precisely
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Are mainframes still relevant today? You bet! The following ten statistics paint a picture that shows mainframes are still going strong, with no signs of slowing. 1. The Mainframe Turns 60: A Milestone in Computing History. 60 years can really fly by! On April 7, 2024 , the Mainframe turned 60. At this milestone, we should all reflect on what the mainframe has done to the computing industry.
Data Engineering Weekly
JULY 21, 2024
Editor’s Note: A New Series on Data Engineering Tools Evaluation There are plenty of data tools and vendors in the industry. But how can we choose a tool for the specific need? The traditional evaluation of running PoC on all the selected vendor tools is time-consuming and practically unviable for growth-driven companies. Data Engineering Weekly is launching a new series on software evaluation focused on data engineering to better guide data engineering leaders in evaluating data tools.
Engineering at Meta
OCTOBER 2, 2024
At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and ship high quality products. In this post, we will dive into the development experiences of some of the product teams who leveraged React and React Native to deliver exciting projects sh
Confluent
MARCH 19, 2024
Seamlessly integrate Apache Kafka data into your lakehouse as Apache Iceberg tables, bridging the operational and analytical divide, with Tableflow. Read more in our blog post.
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