Confluent

MAY 15, 2023

Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.Kora.

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InfoQ Articles

MAY 2, 2023

AIOps can simplify and streamline processes which can reduce the mental burden on employees while improving communication and collaboration between departments.

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Faris Malaeb

MAY 27, 2023

The Get-IISAppPool cmdlet helps to access and configure Internet Information Services (IIS) application pools. This cmdlet is available within the IISAdministration PowerShell module. It enables users to retrieve information, such as application pool name,Net framework version, runtime version, state, and recycling settings of an existing IIS application pool.

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databricks

MAY 30, 2023

We are excited to announce that bit.io is joining Databricks. At Databricks, we’ve always been focused on empowering organizations to solve their toughest p.

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Mixpanel

MAY 2, 2023

Mixpanel launched over a decade ago as an analytics tool for product teams. But here’s a little secret: More than half of our users today are actually on marketing teams. There are two reasons why. Product and marketing teams have to collaborate very closely to drive growth, especially when the goal is product-led growth (PLG). That makes it important to use the same analytics tool.

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 3, 2023

We’re sharing our latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns targeting businesses across the internet, including threat indicators to help raise our industry’s collective defenses across the internet. These malware families – including Ducktail, NodeStealer and newer malware posing as ChatGPT and other similar tools – targeted people through malicious browser extensions, ads, and various social media platforms with an aim to run unauthorized ads from compromi

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Confluent

MAY 11, 2023

Running Kafka is costly, but Confluent has created a far more efficient product to lower your costs. Join the Cost Savings challenge to see for yourself.

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Faris Malaeb

MAY 9, 2023

This is a quick, simple post. The requirement is simple. Get a report from all the computers in the network reporting the last Windows update date, Windows update installed KB, and the Windows uptime. The script gets the content from a file containing all the computer names as an array and saves the result on. The post QuickScript: Get installed Update and Machine Uptime Using PowerShell. appeared first on Faris Malaeb.

Networking 130

Networking Network 130

databricks

MAY 18, 2023

Today, we are thrilled to announce that serverless compute for Databricks SQL is Generally Available on AWS and Azure! Databricks SQL (DB SQL).

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Mixpanel

MAY 2, 2023

Like a lot of software companies, we have an ongoing core focus at Mixpanel to push growth. About a year ago, we were in the middle of a sprint to increase paid customers when we hit a speed bump. Though our marketing team at the time was reporting healthy acquisition in Google Analytics leading to high numbers of new signups, our product team’s Mixpanel dashboard showed conversion from those signups to paying customers was low.

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Ben Morris

MAY 22, 2023

We need a more nuanced understanding of how to get the best out of monoliths, microservices, and serverless architectures.

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Confluent

MAY 9, 2023

Low utilization and operational complexity dramatically increases Kafka costs, so we reinvented Kafka as a cloud-native and complete service to reduce costs for thousands of businesses at any scale.

Cloud 107

Cloud 107

InfoQ Articles

MAY 17, 2023

In this article, we share findings and insights about the Rust community and ecosystem and elaborate on the peculiarities and pitfalls of starting new projects with Rust or migrating to Rust from other languages.

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Dataversity

MAY 22, 2023

In this five-part series, I’m taking a hard look at the common – and costly – mistakes organizations typically make while building a cloud architecture. Part one explained how organizations can quickly lose visibility and control over their data processing, and detailed how to avoid that mistake. Part two looked at why a DIY approach often goes wrong, […] The post <strong>Cloud Architecture Mistakes: The Perils of Poor Security Architecture</strong> appeared first on DATAVE

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databricks

MAY 12, 2023

Download the Databricks Insurance NLP Solution Accelerator Introduction The current economic and social climate has redefined customer expectations and preferences. Society has been.

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Insurance 110

Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2023

Data has become the heartbeat of modern businesses. From e-commerce to finance, logistics to healthcare, data-driven decision-making is at the core of success. But with so many data sources, channels, and tools, how can you ensure that you’re making the right decisions? Enter product analytics—the art of collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data to optimize products, explore user behavior, and drive business growth.

Healthcare 105

Healthcare 105

Kentik

MAY 24, 2023

It has been interesting to observe how professional sports have moved the transmission onto the internet instead of requiring their viewers to sit at home and watch their TV. Many still do that — the details of any sportsball game are best enjoyed on a big screen — but the games are no longer broadcast via the TV signal in the air or on the cable, but coming via the connection to the internet.

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Confluent

MAY 4, 2023

Hardening the innovative feature set introduced in recent releases, Confluent Platform 7.4 enables you to enhance scalability and simplify your architecture, accelerate time to market, and improve data quality.

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InfoQ Articles

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud.

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Cloud 109

Dataversity

MAY 19, 2023

Here’s an important truth: There is no data privacy without data protection. Consumers and companies place their trust in the organizations they do business with and trust that their sensitive data will be kept private. These same organizations want to protect consumer and partner data, to preserve their brand as a trustworthy partner, grow revenues, […] The post Why Data Privacy, Data Security, and Data Protection Go Hand in Hand appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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databricks

MAY 15, 2023

Apache Spark Structured Streaming is the leading open source stream processing platform. It is also the core technology that powers streaming on the.

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DoorDash Engineering

MAY 31, 2023

At DoorDash, we work to implement efficient processes that can mitigate common conflicts within a large iOS development team. Part of those efforts involve using XcodeGen, a command line interface (CLI), to reduce merging conflicts within our various iOS teams. Here we will discuss its implementation to manage the intricate business scenarios and demanding requirements of the Dasher app, which lets our drivers receive, pick up, and securely deliver orders to customers.

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Engineering 96

TDAN

MAY 16, 2023

This article is the fourth installment in a series taking a deep dive on how to do a Current State Analysis on your data. This article focuses on Data Outcomes: what they are, why they are important, and what questions to ask to determine the current state.

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Confluent

MAY 10, 2023

Confluent manages 30,000+ Kafka clusters, produces over 3 trillion messages, and does durability checks on over 80 trillion Kafka messages per day while offering 99.99% uptime. Check out our cool stats!

Cloud 105

Cloud 105

InfoQ Articles

MAY 24, 2023

GDPR compliance should be a default feature in every application that handles PII (Personally Identifiable Information). Most organizations have an impression that GDPR is a luxury feature that needs special tools to implement. But, we can see that the frameworks and design patterns we already use in our everyday development can very well be used to implement the GDPR rules.

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Dataversity

MAY 16, 2023

Enterprises running large SAP HANA instances in the cloud are seeing a new challenge appear as their databases continue to grow. Since SAP HANA has a simplified data layout and structure compared to a more complex legacy database, it was assumed this would result in less data sprawl and duplication. But does the data stay […] The post Controlling SAP HANA Data Sprawl appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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databricks

MAY 9, 2023

We are excited to announce that support for using Structured Streaming with Delta Sharing is now generally available (GA) in Azure, AWS, and.

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 22, 2023

When we first conceived of our aerial fiber deployment solution, Bombyx (the Latin name for a silk moth), we imagined a robot weaving strands of fiber-optic cables over powerlines, helping human workers quickly connect communities even in very rural or remote locations. Now, after years of successful research, Bombyx is taking the next steps in its development.

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Energy Engineering Internet 87

TDAN

MAY 16, 2023

Non-Invasive Data Governance (NIDG), like the popular Netflix series Stranger Things, offers a mysterious and complex reality for organizations to navigate. I am often asked how it is possible to navigate these realities and implement NIDG in the real world. NIDG involves unraveling the intricacies of management, quality, security, and compliance.

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Confluent

MAY 23, 2023

Learn how Confluent Cloud helped Michelin streamline Apache Kafka® operations, reduce costs, and go to market 8-9 months faster.

Cloud 96

Cloud 96

InfoQ Articles

MAY 8, 2023

Lessons learned building a banking platform, starting from technological choices like using Cassandra and Kubernetes in the early days to maintain the speed of execution through platform engineering and developer experience. With some mistakes and incidents along the way.

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Banking Engineering Financial Application 107

Dataversity

MAY 15, 2023

In the buzzing world of data architectures, one term seems to unite some previously contending buzzy paradigms. That term is “knowledge graphs.” In this post, we will dive into the scope of knowledge graphs, which is maturing as we speak. First, let us look back. “Knowledge graph” is not a new term; see for yourself […] The post Modeling Modern Knowledge Graphs appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Education 98

databricks

MAY 16, 2023

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform provides a unified set of tools for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data solutions at scale. Databricks integrates.

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DoorDash Engineering

MAY 23, 2023

Contrary to popular belief that the key to an exceptional career is the accumulation of skills and experience over time, I believe that taking advantage of breakout opportunities is a game-changer in your career. Characterized by their high-visibility or high-impact nature, these breakout opportunities can propel your career to new heights as you meet their demands for a unique combination of expertise, creativity, and leadership skill.

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Engineering 84

TDAN

MAY 2, 2023

The terms Data Mesh and Data Fabric have been used extensively as data management solutions in conversations these days, and sometimes interchangeably, to describe techniques for organizations to manage and add value to their data.

Government 94

Government Education 94

Jane Street

MAY 27, 2023

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InfoQ Articles

MAY 29, 2023

Cloudflare uses Kafka clusters to decouple microservices and communicate the creation, change or deletion of various resources via protobuf, a common data format in a fault-tolerant manner. The authors suggest investing in metrics for problem detection, prioritizing clear SDK documentation, and balancing flexibility and simplicity for standardized pipelines.

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