Engineering at Meta
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Facebook for iOS (FBiOS) is the oldest mobile codebase at Meta. Since the app was rewritten in 2012 , it has been worked on by thousands of engineers and shipped to billions of users, and it can support hundreds of engineers iterating on it at a time. After years of iteration , the Facebook codebase does not resemble a typical iOS codebase: It’s full of C++, Objective-C(++), and Swift.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Learn what windowing is, the difference between the four types of windows (hopping and tumbling, or session and sliding), and how to create them.
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DoorDash Engineering
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
It would be almost impossible to build a scalable backend without a scalable datastore. DoorDash’s expansion from food delivery into new verticals like convenience and grocery introduced a number of new business challenges that would need to be supported by our technical stack. This business expansion not only increased the number of integrated merchants dramatically but also exponentially increased the number of menu items, as stores have much larger and more complicated inventories than typica
Kentik
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Traffic telemetry is the data collected from network devices and used for analysis. With traffic telemetry, engineers can gain real-time visibility into traffic patterns, correlate events, and make predictions of future traffic patterns. As a critical input to a network observability platform, this data can help monitor and optimize network performance, troubleshoot issues, and detect security threats.
Engineering at Meta
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
A lot has changed since the initial launch of our basemap in late 2020. We’re Meta now, but our mission remains the same: Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Across Meta, our family of applications (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among others) are using our basemap to connect people through functions like status updates, location sharing, and location-based searching.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Migrate Kafka clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft with no downtime (early access), get improvements for Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect, and more.
Ben Morris
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The potential benefits of an architecture based on serverless functions are nuanced, making it a good fit only for some very specific use cases.
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databricks
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have unlocked unprecedented opportunities for businesses to get value out of their text data. Natural Language Processing.
InfoQ Articles
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
This article will try to decode these technologies and explore how developers should consider containers or serverless functions within their tech stack. For example, if your application has a longer startup time, then a container would suit the need better. Highly efficient stateless functions that need to scale up and down massively would benefit from running serverless functions.
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
In the digital, remote-first world we’re all working in today, IRL time with colleagues and partners has become precious. In 2023, Mixpanel is excited to host and participate in in-person events where we can put in face time with our data, growth, and product development communities worldwide—and we’d love to see you at them! From meet-ups to customer AMAs to product communities, below is a running list of the in-person events we have planned for this year.
Dataversity
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The arrival of Web3 confirms our entry into an era of user-governed applications. This means developers must emphasize responsiveness and deliver on-demand data insights. Likewise, at the back end, they must build a sturdy testing environment that prepares the application for big data inflows. As we know, chief information officers (CIOs) are at the helm of […] The post Understanding the Role of CIOs in Test Data Management appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
databricks
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Today, we're excited to announce that Databricks has expanded Brickbuilder Solutions by collaborating with key partners in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
InfoQ Articles
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Apache Kafka has integrations with most of the languages used these days, but in this article series, we cover its integration with Java. In this series, we also discuss how to provision, configure and secure an Apache Kafka cluster on a Kubernetes cluster.
Kentik
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
In an ideal world, organizations can establish a single, citadel-like data center that accumulates data and hosts their applications and all associated services, all while enjoying a customer base that is also geographically close. As this data grows in mass and gravity , it’s okay because all the new services, applications, and customers will continue to be just as close to the data.
Packet Pushers
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The Packet Pushers' Heavy Networking podcast dives into sponsor Augtera and how its AI platform, purpose-built for networking, improves network operations and enables automation. We'll examine how Augtera works, how it aims to move beyond the automation of configurations to automate operations and fault management, the kinds of data it collects and how, and how customers are using Augtera in production networks The Packet Pushers' Heavy Networking podcast dives into sponsor Augtera and how its A
Eventbrite
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The value of RSVPs for event creators can be tremendous. An acronym derived from the French term “répondez s’il vous plait,” which translates in English to “please answer,” RSVPs are crucial to estimating head counts for events, which helps event planners determine the budget, venue size, and more.
InfoQ Articles
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
ML interpretability refers to a user's ability to explain decisions made by an ML system. Interpretability increases confidence in the model, reduces bias, and ensures that model is compliant and ethical. In this article, author Andrew Hoblitzell discusses several methods of ML interpretability and dives deep into Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) and Shapley Values.
Dataversity
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
It’s no surprise that, in 2023, business enterprises want to become truly data-driven organizations. For many of these organizations, the path toward becoming more data-driven lies in the power of data lakehouses, which combine elements of data warehouse architecture with data lakes. Data lakehouse architecture is particularly attractive to businesses that want to more rapidly […] The post Data Lakehouses: The Future Of Data Migration appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Packet Pushers
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we discussIPv6 Neighbor Discovery andsome of the operational issues that can happen when configuring and operating IPv6, and what can help listeners understand and resolve those issues. In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we discussIPv6 Neighbor Discovery andsome of the operational issues that can happen when configuring and operating IPv6, and what can help listeners understand and resolve those issues.
Obkio
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Learn how to troubleshoot intermittent Internet connection issues with Network Monitoring. Find & fix the cause of intermittent Internet issues.
InfoQ Articles
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them.
CATO Networks
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
With the increased of cloud adoption has come an expansion of the corporate digital attack surface. Cyber criminals are constantly evolving their tools and techniques, creating new threats, and pushing organizations to the brink. As new trends emerge in both cyber attacks and defenses every year, we have decided to list our predictions for the top network security trends of 2023 and beyond. #1.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Co-partitioning is when two streams are joined by topics with the same number of partitions. Learn how to implement co-partitioning, the criteria needed, considerations, and more.
Dataversity
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
As international business moves inevitably toward a recession, many companies already entrenched in a bear market attitude are looking to expand the returns in their existing customer base. For some, this process may be akin to searching around the basement, rearranging precarious stacks of boxes while searching for that one forgotten shoebox labeled “rainy day […] The post Can Alternative Data Find Alternative Revenue for Your Business?
InfoQ Articles
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The software delivery process has been transformed in the last decade; we’ve adopted well-understood workflows around functions such as testing, release management and operational support In this article we'll explore the impact that security workflows have on software delivery, explain the root causes and share battle-proven techniques to show how we can make delivering secure software easier.
CATO Networks
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
An old vulnerability has recently been making waves in the world of cybersecurity, and that is the catchily named CVE-2021-21974. The ransomware attack that exploits a vulnerability in VMware ESXi hypervisors, has reportedly hit over 500 machines this past weekend. Shodan data indicates that many servers were initially hosted in the OVHcloud, but the blast radius appears to be constantly expanding.
Packet Pushers
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and software practices you might want to put in place for the parts of your team who know what they're doing with infrastructure but may not be familiar with developer practices that can help make code more reliable and operational processes more repeatable. Our guest is author Rosemary Wang.
Eventbrite
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
For event creators, a save-the-date email campaign makes a great solution for when you want to stake out a day for an upcoming event. For example, those on your email list — prior event registrants — appreciate the heads-up to clear their calendars for your event.
Dataversity
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Technology behemoths like Netflix, Uber, and Meta set the standard for how application users experience data. Users expect data to be integrated into the application, making it easier to find relevant content, track deliveries, provide a spam-free internet experience, and make quick, informed operational decisions. Up until this point, the speed and scale of real-time analytics […] The post Real-Time Analytics: Examples and Benefits appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
CATO Networks
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Today we announced that Cato Networks was named a Leader and Outperformer by GigaOm in the analyst firms Radar for SD-WAN Report. This is our first year to be included in the report and already we shot to the top of the leaders circle, underscoring the strength and maturity of Cato SD-WAN and showing the importance of considering SD-WAN as part of a broader SASE offering.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
How Confluent’s VP of sales operations grew her career, approaches sales leadership, and success while ensuring DEI and a positive culture.
Eventbrite
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
At Something Dope for the People, the party starts in line. By the time founder Jordan St. Pierre arrives, people are queued up, abuzz with creative energy. They’re playing keyboards, strumming guitars, and socializing — St. Pierre’s even spotted DJs deejaying the line.
Dataversity
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The process of researching, developing, and ultimately commercializing a treatment for patients, regardless of the therapy area, is a long and costly one with slim chances for success. For example, the average R&D investment in developing a new drug treatment is $1.3 billion, the median development time is 5.9 to 7.2 years for non-oncology and 13.1 years for […] The post How Biopharma Can Use Advanced AI and ML appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Packet Pushers
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
On this week's Network Break we examine Ericsson's push for 5G network slicing on laptops, Microsoft injecting ChatGPT into Teams to do the grunt work, financial results from Juniper and Amazon, and more tech news. On this week's Network Break we examine Ericsson's push for 5G network slicing on laptops, Microsoft injecting ChatGPT into Teams to do the grunt work, financial results from Juniper and Amazon, and more tech news.
Cockroach Labs
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Most software projects start their lives linked to a simple, single-instance database. Something like Postgres or MySQL. But as companies grow, their data needs grow, too. Sooner or later, a single instance just isnt going to cut it. Thats where data partitioning comes in.
Dataversity
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Organizations seeking responsive and sustainable solutions to their growing data challenges increasingly lean on architectural approaches such as data mesh to deliver information quickly and efficiently. Data mesh and other virtual data approaches connect, unify information, and make it available across numerous data silos and warehouses to get it efficiently into the hands of analysts and other […] The post Without Trusted Core Data, Data Mesh Is Data Meh appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Packet Pushers
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast were talking about cloud migration and operating in a multi-cloud environment. Were sponsored by VMware and were speaking with Expedient, a VMware partner. Expedient is also a cloud service provider and runs 14 data centers across the US. Our guest is Bryan Smith, CEO at Expedient. Today on the Tech Bytes podcast were talking about cloud migration and operating in a multi-cloud environment.
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