January, 2023

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Confluent + Immerok: Cloud Native Kafka Meets Cloud Native Flink

Confluent

Introducing fully managed Apache Kafka® + Flink for the most robust, cloud-native data streaming platform with stream processing, integration, and streaming analytics in one.

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Watch Meta’s engineers discuss optimizing large-scale networks

Engineering at Meta

Managing network solutions amidst a growing scale inherently brings challenges around performance, deployment, and operational complexities. At Meta, we’ve found that these challenges broadly fall into three themes: 1.) Data center networking: Over the past decade, on the physical front, we have seen a rise in vendor-specific hardware that comes with heterogeneous feature and architecture sets (e.g., non-blocking architecture).

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Article: Design Pattern Proposal for Autoscaling Stateful Systems

InfoQ Articles

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator.

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Price Transparency: Putting the customer first in B2B software

Mixpanel

Customer Focus is one of our core cultural values at Mixpanel. We respect our customers’ time and strive to make buying software as seamless and frictionless as subscribing to your favorite music streaming service. That’s why we’ve made all of Mixpanel’s plans available for purchase online with our pricing clearly listed on our website. This removes the friction of customers having to schedule a call with a sales rep, negotiating on price, and the many other steps that completing a B2B software

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Interact with ChatGPT API Using Postman or PowerShell

Faris Malaeb

ChatGPT API allows developers to integrate the capabilities of ChatGPT into their applications easily. OpenAI provides the ChatGPT API, which can be accessed via an API key. The API endpoint allows you to send a prompt and receive a generated response. With its ability to understand and develop human-like text, the ChatGPT API is a. The post Interact with ChatGPT API Using Postman or PowerShell appeared first on Faris Malaeb.

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How to Make Money From Events

Eventbrite

In these belt-tightened times, savvy event organizers are looking for new ways to boost their revenue. Here are 5 proven ways to bring in additional income from your event.

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Succeeding with Change Data Capture

Confluent

CDC is a software design pattern that identifies and captures changes made to data in a database. Learn how CDC works, the best solutions, and how to get started with various implementations.

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Article: Finding Adequate Metrics for Outer, Inner, and Process Quality in Software Development

InfoQ Articles

Implementing a feature can be measured. Quality is harder to measure. This article explores how to balance improving quality and adding new features. It dives into different domains of quality: Outer quality which is owned by the product people (e.g. product owners, testers), inner quality owned by the developers, and process quality owned by managers.

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How I treat creative copy like a product—using data

Mixpanel

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. If you think I’m being extreme, just wait until you read the rest of this post. Copywriting, while often thought of as something creative and inspired, is a technical craft.

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How We Reduced Our iOS App Launch Time by 60%

DoorDash Engineering

App startup time is a critical metric for users, as it’s their first interaction with the app, and even minor improvements can have significant benefits for the user experience. First impressions are a big driver in consumer conversion, and startup times often indicate the app’s overall quality. Furthermore, other companies found that an increase in latency equals a decrease in sales.

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Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake

databricks

This is a collaborative post from Databricks and wisecube.ai. We thank Vishnu Vettrivel, Founder, and Alex Thomas, Principal Data Scientist, for their contributions.

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Best Practices for Enriching Network Telemetry to Support Network Observability

Kentik

Network observability is critical. You need the ability to answer any question about your network—across clouds, on-prem, edge locations, and user devices—quickly and easily. But network observability is not always easy. To be successful, you need to collect network telemetry , and that telemetry needs to be extensive and diverse. And once you have that raw telemetry data, you need to interpret it.

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Tulip: Modernizing Meta’s data platform

Engineering at Meta

The technical journey discusses the motivations, challenges, and technical solutions employed for warehouse schematization, especially a change to the wire serialization format employed in Meta’s data platform for data interchange related to Warehouse Analytics Logging. Here, we discuss the engineering, scaling, and nontechnical challenges of modernizing Meta’s exabyte-scale data platform by migrating to the new Tulip format.

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Article: Software Testing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Trends in 2023

InfoQ Articles

Technology has taken significant leaps within the last few years, introducing advancements that have taken us further into the digital age — impacting the software testing industry and we're seeing advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the neural networks making them possible. These new technologies will change how software is developed and tested like never before.

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Secure Shared Services with Data Streaming: OAuth, Client Quotas, and more

Confluent

Confluent’s fully managed, cloud data streaming platform introduces new security features: OAuth, Enhanced RBAC, and Cloud Client Quotas.

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Machine Learning to Improve SEO Performance

TDAN

For the larger part of my SEO career, I was leading a team of a dozen marketing specialists working on multiple SaaS or affiliate projects. At one point, I asked myself whether I could utilize my data science expertise to get better marketing results.

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Five Challenges CIOs Need to Overcome in the New Year

databricks

As IT leaders kick off the new year during one of the most tumultuous times in recent history, CIOs are being forced to.

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Los Angeles DJ Jae Murphy Curates a Soundtrack to Black History Month

Eventbrite

Before Jae Murphy became an in-demand DJ, he was a host known for working the room at comedy showcases, dance competitions, and fraternity parties on campus at Howard University, where he studied broadcast journalism.

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Understanding the Five Tenets of Intelligent Automation

Dataversity

Data-driven decision-making is a critical aspect of modern business operations, with most organizations leveraging enterprise applications to execute their business processes easily and effectively. However, the users of these tools have historically needed to make a majority of their decisions manually, outside the software, creating inefficiencies that have a negative impact on operations.

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Article: Lessons Learned from Enterprise Usage of GitHub Actions

InfoQ Articles

GitHub Actions is an effective CI tool. However, integrating it into enterprise organizations can be challenging. This article looks at best practices for GitHub Actions in the enterprise. By Greg Jacobs.

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How to Build a Flexible Customer Support Platform with Kotlin

DoorDash Engineering

As DoorDash’s business has grown with increasing order volumes and through emerging businesses including grocery delivery, our customer support experience also needed to scale up efficiently. The legacy support application that DoorDash had built to issue credits and refunds was created only to address the original food delivery service. It couldn’t handle the needs of our new verticals.

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A Step Ahead: Federated Data Stores

TDAN

Government systems produce and store a large amount of data daily. Government leaders want to utilize this data to make decisions faster and more efficiently. It is nearly impossible to make well-informed decisions if that data is not visible, accessible, organized, and cannot be seamlessly discovered across the enterprise.

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Work With Large Monorepos With Sparse Checkout Support in Databricks Repos

databricks

For your data-centered workloads, Databricks offers the best-in-class development experience and gives you the tools you need to adhere to code development best.

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The Best Time to Post on Social Media for Events

Eventbrite

Find out the best length & time to post on each network for your social media event marketing, according to the experts at Buffer.

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What to Expect from AI, Data Science, and Wearables in Health Care in 2023

Dataversity

AI and data science have remained areas of focus in the last year and will continue to be top of mind for many tech companies in the coming year. Wearables, especially those with health monitoring capabilities, have also grown abundant as medical and consumer companies alike ramp up their offerings in response to increased demand. […] The post What to Expect from AI, Data Science, and Wearables in Health Care in 2023 appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Article: A Skeptic’s Guide to Software Architecture Decisions

InfoQ Articles

Skepticism is an architectural superpower that helps you to see through false assumptions before you have followed them too far before they have cost you too much time and created so much work that you’ll never completely recover. By Kurt Bittner, Pierre Pureur.

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Announcing the Source Available Confluent CLI

Confluent

Confluent’s leading command-line tool for managing enterprise Kafka deployments and modern data flow—is now source available.

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What’s Your Data Culture Plan for 2023?

TDAN

As we start the new year, it is a good chance for us to take a step back and re-think how we are approaching our data culture. How are we improving data trust? Are we being intentional about our data communications? Are we supported by senior leadership? Every organization has a data culture: the organizational […].

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Introducing Upgrades to Databricks Notebooks - New Editor, Python Formatting, and More

databricks

Databricks Notebooks offers a simple, unified environment for anyone building Data and AI products. Today we are excited to introduce updates to the.

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10 Steps to Build a Successful Event PR Strategy

Eventbrite

PR is critical to event promotion success. Get press coverage with a smart event PR strategy that increases interest and attendance.

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Transformational Inertia: Why So Few Digital Transformation Projects Succeed

Dataversity

Over the last 20 years of our experience helping companies achieve innovation and digital transformation success, we have observed that there are three critical resources an enterprise has at its disposal, that must be leveraged in an optimal way, to create success. Namely: time, political support, and investment capital – all of which tend to […].

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Article: Platform Engineering 101: What You Need to Know About This Hot New Trend

InfoQ Articles

Platform engineering is a current hot topic with a rapidly growing tooling ecosystem and landscape. This article reviews many of the important trends in Platform Engineering.

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How DoorDash Upgraded a Heuristic with ML to Save Thousands of Canceled Orders

DoorDash Engineering

One challenge in running our platform is being able to accurately track Merchants’ operational status and ability to receive and fulfill orders. For example, when a Merchant’s location is physically closed but marked as open on our platform, we might create a bad experience for all of our users; a Dasher cannot complete their accepted delivery, the Consumer cannot receive their ordered food, and the Merchant could see lower future revenues.

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AI Trends Are Shaping Sales

TDAN

The sales industry has been witnessing the rise of AI and automation over many years and 2023 will not be an exception. To stand out in a competitive industry, businesses must invest in revamping their existing sales processes and crafting a modern sales strategy that aligns with the sales predictions for 2023. The role AI […].

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Databricks Power BI Connector Now Supports Native Query

databricks

This is a collaborative post from Databricks and Microsoft. We thank Mahesh Prakriya (Director in Intelligence Platform, Microsoft) and Bob Zhang (Sr. Technical.

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Your Secret Sauce for Growing Attendees, by Tayleur Crenshaw, Founder of Gold Beams

Eventbrite

What’s up? My name is Tayleur. I’m an event producer and the founder of Gold Beams (website / Instagram / YouTube). Gold Beams is a production company. We produce events for Black creatives and the Black community at large. We’re also contracted to produce and project manage events for others. Gold Beams’ internal events have […].

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What to Expect from Open-Source Data Infrastructure in 2023

Dataversity

Open-source technologies will become even more prominent within enterprises’ data architecture over the coming year, driven by the stark budgetary advantages combined with some of the newest enterprise-friendly capabilities added to several solutions. Here are three predictions for the open-source data infrastructure space in 2023: 1. Economic headwinds will make open-source data technologies even more attractive to […].