databricks
AUGUST 30, 2023
It’s no secret that modern organizations are doubling down on their investments in data - investments that uncover deep customer insights that provide a.
Jane Street
AUGUST 29, 2023
At Jane Street, we often work with data that has a very lowsignal-to-noise ratio, but fortunately we also have a lot of data.Where practitioners in many fiel.
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Dataversity
AUGUST 30, 2023
As one of the fastest-growing fields, technology continues to drive transformative changes across various industries, with new advancements emerging each year. Consequently, the demand for data analytics jobs is expected to surge in the near future, with a significant need for data science practitioners worldwide. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2021) projects a 22% growth […] The post 10 Highest-Paying Data Analytics Jobs in 2023 appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Confluent
AUGUST 22, 2023
How real-time data streaming is powering peer-to-peer trading of renewable energy with ever-increasing data volumes.
Engineering at Meta
AUGUST 15, 2023
Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683 – to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues for true parallelism. At Meta, we use Python (Django) for our frontend server within Instagram. To handle parallelism, we rely on a multi-process architecture along with asyncio for per-process concurrency.
InfoQ Articles
AUGUST 30, 2023
Explore the use of the Unnamed Patterns/Variables in programming languages like Java, Kotlin, and Scala. Enhancing code readability, allowing omission of unnecessary components, and simplifying code are key features. Expect further innovative uses as languages evolve.
databricks
AUGUST 1, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the opening of Databricks’ latest development center in Belgrade, Serbia. This addition joins our existing R&D centers in A.
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Dataversity
AUGUST 7, 2023
Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. This month we’re talking data literacy and change management. What is data literacy? Why is it important? What are the barriers? How do […] The post The Cool Kids Corner: Change Management for Data Literacy appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Confluent
AUGUST 11, 2023
Meet Commercial AE Niki Kapsi and learn about the “entrepreneurial” side of her role at Confluent.
Engineering at Meta
AUGUST 9, 2023
Explore is one of the largest recommendation systems on Instagram. We leverage machine learning to make sure people are always seeing content that is the most interesting and relevant to them. Using more advanced machine learning models, like Two Towers neural networks, we’ve been able to make the Explore recommendation system even more scalable and flexible.
InfoQ Articles
AUGUST 8, 2023
In this article, author Markus Völter discusses the future of programming using Large Language Model (LLM) tools like ChatGPT and GitHub’s Copilot for prose-to-code generation. He also talks about what new approaches and language changes need to be in place to help non-programmers take advantage of the "program in prose" techniques.
databricks
AUGUST 23, 2023
To build customer support bots, internal knowledge graphs, or Q&A systems, customers often use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications which leverage pre-trained models.
DoorDash Engineering
AUGUST 1, 2023
Accurate and reliable observability is essential when supporting a large distributed service, but this is only possible if your tools are equally scalable. Unfortunately, this was a challenge at DoorDash because of peak traffic failures while using our legacy metrics infrastructure based on StatsD. Just when we most needed observability data, the system would leave us in the lurch.
Dataversity
AUGUST 7, 2023
In the era of digital transformation, data has become the new oil. Businesses increasingly rely on real-time data to make informed decisions, improve customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge. However, managing and handling real-time data can be challenging due to its volume, velocity, and variety. This article will guide you through nine best practices […] The post 9 Best Practices for Real-Time Data Management appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Confluent
AUGUST 25, 2023
Senior software engineer Yash Mayya talks about his career path to Confluent and working on Kafka Connect.
Engineering at Meta
AUGUST 7, 2023
Fixit is dead! Long live Fixit 2 – the latest version of our open-source auto-fixing linter. Fixit 2 allows developers to efficiently build custom lint rules and perform auto-fixes for their codebases. Fixit 2 is available today on PyPI. Python is one of the most popular languages in use at Meta. Meta’s production engineers (PEs) are specialized software engineers (SWEs) who focus on reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
InfoQ Articles
AUGUST 9, 2023
When trying to bring innovation into an organization, communication is important. It is vital to share information in a clear and logical way but it is just as important to understand and accept how people are feeling about the innovation. To do this, leaders can make use of strategies that help them create an emotional connection.
databricks
AUGUST 28, 2023
Talk to any data science organization and they will almost unanimously tell you that the biggest challenge to building high quality AI models.
DoorDash Engineering
AUGUST 31, 2023
At DoorDash, we generate supply and demand forecasts to proactively plan operations such as acquiring the right number of Dashers (delivery drivers) and adding extra pay when we anticipate low supply. It is challenging to generate accurate forecasts during holidays because certain machine learning techniques (e.g., XGBoost , Gradient Boosting , Random Forest ) have difficulty handling high variation with limited data.
Dataversity
AUGUST 9, 2023
The Information Age has flooded the modern enterprise with data. Demand for enterprise storage capacity will only increase in the years ahead. By the end of this decade, new enterprise storage capacity shipments are forecast to be 15 ZB per year, with the active installed base exceeding 45 ZB. Where Is This Growth Coming From? Business and […] The post Why AI Forces Data Management to Up Its Game appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Confluent
AUGUST 8, 2023
Learn what an Apache Kafka cluster is, and what makes a cluster special.
Engineering at Meta
AUGUST 29, 2023
At Meta, Bento is our internal Jupyter notebooks platform that is leveraged by many internal users. Notebooks are also being used widely for creating reports and workflows (for example, performing data ETL ) that need to be repeated at certain intervals. Users with such notebooks would have to remember to manually run their notebooks at the required cadence – a process people might forget because it does not scale with the number of notebooks used.
InfoQ Articles
AUGUST 4, 2023
Achieving a staff+ engineering role is a considerable achievement that many engineers seek as the next step in their career growth. In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges that staff+ engineers can face and how our struggles are similar to those of artists. Specifically, we’ll look at the parallels between creating art, creating software, and dealing with organizational dynamics.
databricks
AUGUST 14, 2023
One of the key challenges that organizations face when adopting the open data lakehouse is selecting the optimal format for their data. Among.
Jane Street
AUGUST 31, 2023
OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented.
Dataversity
AUGUST 4, 2023
Generating actionable insights across growing data volumes and disconnected data silos is becoming increasingly challenging for organizations. Working across data islands leads to siloed thinking and the inability to implement critical business initiatives such as Customer, Product, or Asset 360. As data is generated, stored, and used across data centers, edge, and cloud providers, managing a […] The post Usability and Connecting Threads: How Data Fabric Makes Sense Out of Disparate Data a
Confluent
AUGUST 31, 2023
Learn how Confluent’s cloud-native Apache Kafka engine stood out from other data management systems with its uniquely elastic, reliable, and cost-efficient design
Engineering at Meta
AUGUST 7, 2023
Short-lived certificates (SLCs) are part of our latest efforts to further secure our Transport Layer Security (TLS) private keys on our edge networks. SLCs have a very short exposure compared to traditional certificates and lower the chances of a compromised private key being abused. Implementing SLCs has required us to address tradeoffs between operability and reliability, while satisfying the strict security requirements of our edge environment.
InfoQ Articles
AUGUST 23, 2023
Eclipse JNoSQL 1.0.0 modernizes NoSQL integration with advanced features, standardized specs (Jakarta NoSQL & Jakarta Data), enhanced queries, schema migration, and Quarkus framework compatibility. It simplifies NoSQL use, boosts performance, scalability, and integrates seamlessly. Empowering developers with tools to streamline data management in modern apps.
databricks
AUGUST 10, 2023
At this year's Data+AI Summit, Databricks SQL continued to push the boundaries of what a data warehouse can be, leveraging AI across the.
CATO Networks
AUGUST 31, 2023
Introduction In an increasingly digital world, cybersecurity has become a critical concern for companies. With the rise of sophisticated cyber threats, protecting critical infrastructure and ensuring the continuity of essential services has become a top priority. The EUs Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2), which supersedes the previous directive from 2016, establishes a framework to enhance the security and resilience of network and information systems.
Dataversity
AUGUST 14, 2023
Companies are driving ahead with data transformation – but many run into challenges right from the start. So, where are they going off track? First, it’s important to define what it means to be data-driven. Data-driven organizations not only collect data, they collect the right data and use it to inform all decisions made across the business. These […] The post A Data-Driven Organization Requires Everyone’s Hands on the Wheel appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Confluent
AUGUST 30, 2023
Confluent Platform 7.5 brings SSO for Control Center, simplified interface with Confluent using v3 of the REST proxy API, and bidirectional Cluster Linking.
Engineering at Meta
AUGUST 8, 2023
Meta is developing new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to innovate and solve problems with less data. These technologies enable teams to build and launch privacy-enhanced products in a way that’s verifiable and safeguards user data. Using state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques, we have developed Private Data Lookup (PDL) that allows users to privately query a server-side data set.
InfoQ Articles
AUGUST 21, 2023
Can we increase our flexibility? Can we increase our test coverage? Can we increase our efficiency? And is it possible to reduce our verification lead-time by 50%? One company challenged itself with these questions. This article explores two important “‘pillars”’ of their testing strategy: shifting left and using state-of-the-art techniques to support verification activities.
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2023
With the rapid advancement of neural network-based techniques and Large Language Model (LLM) research, businesses are increasingly interested in AI applications for value.
Packet Pushers
AUGUST 30, 2023
Today on Day Two Cloud we dive into the implications of licensing changes that HashiCorp has made to its popular Terraform software. In short, the company has switched from an open source to a business source license. HashiCorp says it felt compelled to make the change to ensure that some other business entity doesn't take the open-source software and turn it into a competing product (looking at you, AWS).
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