Wed.Feb 07, 2024

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Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta

Engineering at Meta

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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Welcome Noteable: Making Data Streaming Easier and More Approachable

Confluent

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

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Article: Spring Boot 3.2 and Spring Framework 6.1 Add Java 21, Virtual Threads, and CRaC

InfoQ Articles

Spring Framework 6.1 and Spring Boot 3.2 run on Java 21. They make concurrent programming simpler and more efficient with virtual threads, as well as improving reactive programming and Kotlin coroutines. For “Scale to Zero” startup time reduction, the OpenJDK project CRaC received initial support, while the existing GraalVM Native Image integration got faster through a GraalVM release.

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Health Care Outside of the Box

Cloudera Blog

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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Stop Complaining About Your Data – And Do Something About It

TDAN

Organizations are drowning in a sea of data, facing challenges that range from inconsistent quality to inefficient and ineffective management. It’s easy to complain about the state of your data, but a more productive tactic involves taking actionable steps to address these issues.

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The FAAR Framework for Consuming Insights from Data and Analytics 

Dataversity

Faced with overwhelming amounts of data, organizations across the world are looking at leveraging data and analytics (D&A) to derive insights to increase revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. McKinsey found that insight-driven companies report EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) increases of up to 25% [1].

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D2C232: Chaos Engineering: Breaking Things on Purpose

Packet Pushers

Chaos engineering is all about resilience and reliability it just takes the harder path to get there. By injecting random and unpredictable behavior to the point of failure, chaos engineers observe systems weak points, apply preventative maintenance, and develop a failover plan. Matt Schillerstrom from Harness introduces Ned and Ethan to this wild corner of.

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A Step Ahead: Hierarchies – Boon or Bane?

TDAN

This is a follow-up article to last quarter’s “A Step Ahead: Categories – Boon or Bane.” There’s an old cliché that says, “To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” I think this is very true of data and how we view it.

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No Dirty Reads: Everything you always wanted to know about SQL isolation levels (but were too afraid to ask)

Cockroach Labs

Every relational database needs to establish a balance between accuracy and performance. Transaction isolation levels have a direct, though often unrecognized, impact on both.

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Data Speaks for Itself: Is AI the Cure for Data Curation?

TDAN

By now, it is clear to everyone that AI, especially generative AI, is the only topic you’re allowed to write about. It seems to have impacted every area of information technology, so, I will try my best to do my part.

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The Modern Data Stack: Why It Should Matter to Data Practitioners

TDAN

In the rapidly evolving data landscape, data practitioners face a plethora of concepts and architectures. Data mesh argues for a decentralized approach to data and for data to be delivered as curated, reusable data products under the ownership of business domains.

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The Rise of Zero-Trust Architecture

TDAN

The cybersecurity landscape in 2024 is marked by complex, multi-faceted threats, necessitating advanced defensive strategies. This complexity arises from the expansive use of digital technologies and the corresponding increase in attack vectors. This evolution demands a nuanced understanding of threat patterns and the adoption of more sophisticated defense mechanisms.

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How Data Analytics Is Transforming Due Diligence

TDAN

Due diligence is the complex process of assessing a potential investment and ensuring it is a sound one. It involves the gathering, classifying, and analyzing of large volumes of data. Given its very nature, it’s the perfect field for data analytics, which can speed processes up and assess the quality and reliability of data.