Sat.Feb 11, 2023 - Fri.Feb 17, 2023

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Dynamic vs. Static Consumer Membership in Apache Kafka

Confluent

There are two main consumer group memberships in Apache Kafka®. Here’s how static and dynamic consumer groups work, how they affect rebalancing, and which to choose for your application.

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The Consolidation of Networking Tasks in Engineering

Kentik

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. The result we’re starting to see today is a sort of consolidation of networking tasks, leading to a need for only a small number of highly skilled network engineers to handle the less frequent heavy lifting of advanced design and troubleshooting.

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Building a cross-platform runtime for AR

Engineering at Meta

Meta’s augmented reality (AR) platform is one of the largest in the world, helping the billions of people on Meta’s apps experience AR every day and giving hundreds of thousands of creators a means to express themselves Meta’s AR tools are unique because they can be used on a wide variety of devices — from mixed reality headsets like Meta Quest Pro to phones, as well as lower-end devices that are much more prevalent in low-connectivity parts of the world.

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How Data Governance is Central to Effective Data Analytics

TDAN

In the publishing industry, there are a lot of things we can measure. However, if there is no strategy underlining how and why we collect data and who can access it, the value is lost. Not only that, but we can put our business at serious risk of non-compliance.

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How to Celebrate Earth Day: 14 Event Ideas for Earth Day 2023

Eventbrite

Earth Day is an annual call to dedicate ourselves to environmental protection. Each year’s Earth Day focuses on a different topic, and the theme for 2023 is climate change. April 22 may only be one day on the calendar, but with these event ideas, you can set the tone for sustainability year-round.

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2023: Generative AI, IoB-Informed Products, and Other Data-Driven Technologies

Dataversity

There are several data-driven technologies that are primed to take off this year. Based on what we are seeing with our customers, we can expect a surge in the adoption of emerging technologies like generative artificial Intelligence as well as new software architectures that will transform markets, empower consumers, and deliver new personalized customer experiences. […] The post 2023: Generative AI, IoB-Informed Products, and Other Data-Driven Technologies appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Databricks ?? IDEs

databricks

Happy Valentine's Day! Databricks ❤️ Visual Studio Code. On this lovely day, we are thrilled to announce a new and powerful development experience for.

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Article: How I Contributed as a Tester to a Machine Learning System: Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings

InfoQ Articles

Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? In those cases, testing takes a backseat. And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers itself. A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make. This is a journey of assuring quality of ML-based systems as a tester.

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How to Assess Data Quality Readiness for Modern Data Pipelines

Dataversity

For growth-minded organizations, the ability to effectively respond to market conditions, competitive pressures, and customer expectations is dependent on one key asset: data. But having just massive troves of data isn’t enough. The key to being truly data-driven is having access to accurate, complete, and reliable data. In fact, Gartner recently found that organizations believe […] The post How to Assess Data Quality Readiness for Modern Data Pipelines appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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How To Migrate Your Oracle PL/SQL Code to Databricks Lakehouse Platform

databricks

Oracle is a well-known technology for hosting Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions. However, many customers like Optum and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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Measuring Your DBAs

TDAN

Readers of my writings sometimes ask me questions about databases and database administration, which I welcome. And at times I will take the opportunity to answer particularly intriguing questions in print.

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Article: Building Functional.NET Applications: A Guide for Choosing Between F# vs C#

InfoQ Articles

C# and F# are languages, each with growing user bases, that approach functional programming in fundamentally different ways. C# relies on object-oriented, imperative principles, and F# relies on functional principles. Some developers are using F# as a complement to C#, rather than relying on the functional capabilities that exist natively in C#.

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Building a Data Analytics Strategy to Understand Your Supply Chain

Dataversity

We’ve all heard and seen the realities of the increase in shipping rates. In 2021, the domestic shipping rates for moving goods by road and rail in the U.S. was up 23% from 2020. The real problem, though, is that even if you can afford that increase, the product and capacity might not be available. […] The post Building a Data Analytics Strategy to Understand Your Supply Chain appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Accelerate your model development with the new MLflow Experiments UI

databricks

MLflow is the premier platform for model development and experimentation. Thousands of data scientists use MLflow Experiment Tracking every day to find the.

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Embeddable reports: Bringing Mixpanel to your favorite product tools

Mixpanel

Last year, our Boards release was all about making Mixpanel more collaborative. Our next step in this effort: We’re bringing Mixpanel to all the other tools that product teams use to work together. Now you can embed Mixpanel Boards and reports in Figma, Coda, Jira, and any third-party tool that supports embedding. This functionality unlocks Mixpanel access across many apps and makes it easier to bring data insights into more team discussions, such as brainstorming sessions or weekly syncs.

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Article: PHP 8 - Arrays, Variables, Operators, Exception Handling and More

InfoQ Articles

In this article, we discuss new features brought by PHP 8 related to arrays, variables, operators, and exception handling. We also discussed some trait-, class-, and function-related features. This article concludes the PHP 8 article series.

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Lifecycle of a Successful ML Product: Reducing Dasher Wait Times

DoorDash Engineering

Building an ML-powered delivery platform like DoorDash is a complex undertaking. It involves collaboration across numerous organizations and cross-functional teams. When this process works well, it can be an amazing experience to work on a product development team, ship ML models to production, and make them 1% better every day. The process usually starts with first identifying a product that we could improve by using Machine Learning.

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Best Practices for Realtime Feature Computation on Databricks

databricks

As Machine Learning usage continues to rise across industries and applications, the sophistication of the Machine Learning pipelines is also increasing. Many of.

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Is Apache Kafka a Database? With ksqlDB, Most Definitely

Confluent

description: With real-time data ingestion, streaming, and storage capabilities, Apache Kafka can be used as a database with ksqlDB.

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Article: EaaS as a Technique to Raise Productivity in Teams

InfoQ Articles

In essence, EaaS addresses developer productivity issues by providing settings that make it simple for developers to test and mimic real-world uses of their system. This article discusses the benefits of EaaS.

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How to Write a Data Management Plan

TDAN

Data management is becoming increasingly important for organizations of all sizes as the need to track, store, and analyze data grows. The lack of a data management plan can cause serious problems for organizations in terms of regulatory compliance, loss of control over stored information, and increased costs due to inefficient processes.

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Announcing General Availability of orchestrating dbt Projects with Databricks Workflows

databricks

We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of support for orchestrating dbt projects in Databricks Workflows. Since the start of Public.

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Heavy Networking 666: Improving Quality Of Experience With LibreQoS

Packet Pushers

Welcome to Heavy Networking! In this episode we discuss LibreQoS, a free and open source software project to help ISPs improve network latency and responsiveness and improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) for their customers. That project is LibreQoS, and it's being used by ISPs and others to ensure stable latency across networks. Welcome to Heavy Networking!

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Article: Moving Past Simple Incident Metrics: Courtney Nash on the VOID

InfoQ Articles

The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) is assembling publically available software-related incident reports. InfoQ talks with Courtney Nash about their recent findings including how MTT* metrics may not be beneficial, the average time to incident resolution, and the importance of studying near-miss reports.

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Eyes on Data: The Elevated Role of Data Management and the CDO

TDAN

The role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) or the Chief Data Executive continues to gain relevance and importance in today’s corporate C-Suites across all industries.

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Announcing New Partner Integrations in Databricks Partner Connect

databricks

New year, new integrations to announce! We're excited to introduce five new additions to Databricks Partner Connect– a centralized portal to help you f.

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Internship at Noction: An excellent kick-start for your IT career

Noction

Learn from experienced mentors and develop crucial technical skills through Noction's internship program. A recent graduate and now Front-End Developer, Mihai Plamadeala shares his experience and advice for future interns.

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Securing Event Sponsorship: Expert & Creator Tips

Eventbrite

Snagging a sponsor can take your event to the next level and create future opportunities for expansion — but many event creators hit a wall when trying to find and nurture potential sponsors.

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How to Work with Unstructured Data in Python

Dataversity

All our online actions generate data. Even if we don’t write posts, comment, or upload other content, we leave our traces by being silent observers. This leads to predictable results – according to Statista, the amount of data generated globally is expected to surpass 180 zettabytes in 2025. On the one hand, having many resources to make […] The post How to Work with Unstructured Data in Python appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Day Two Cloud 182: Assembling The Multicloud Networking Puzzle To Operate At Cloud Speed (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

Today's Day Two Cloud assembles a panel to discuss the challenges of multicloud networking. We're sponsored by Prosimo, and the recording took place live at AWS re:Invent 2022. We discuss how and why an org goes multicloud, cloud networking issues, integrating ZTNA, and more. Today's Day Two Cloud assembles a panel to discuss the challenges of multicloud networking.

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6 Steps to SASE Adoption

CATO Networks

SASE adoption requires business and technological planning. By properly preparing for the transition, you will be able to successfully move your business-critical networking and security capabilities to a vendor-delivered service. You will also have the answers to any board and leadership questions. What does a good SASE adoption plan look like? Below we list six steps that will take you from start to finish.

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How to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month: 20 Event Ideas

Eventbrite

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the contributions that AAPIs have made to the US. In 2023, the theme is Advancing Leaders Through Opportunity.

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Data Strategy Without Data Literacy? Like Boarding the Titanic!

Dataversity

Data literacy is a hot topic with today’s data leaders, and many have put budget aside for data literacy training this year, for a good reason. Data literacy is about improving an organization’s or individual’s ability to make decisions using data. And although training goes some way to support this, it is by no means the silver bullet on its own. A true, all-encompassing data literacy […] The post Data Strategy Without Data Literacy?

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Understanding Data-platform Needs to Support Network Observability

Kentik

In today’s digital world, data is generated faster and at a larger scale than ever before. With software architectures increasingly adopting distributed, cloud-based models , network infrastructures have become complex webs of virtual and physical devices. The interplay of multiple, simultaneous deployments (multi-cloud, blue/green, canary), service-oriented production and infrastructure models, the ephemeral nature of the data associated with technologies like containers and serverless, thousan

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A SASE Approach to Enterprise Ransomware Protection

CATO Networks

Ransomware continues to be a prime cyber threat to organizations of all sizes. One thesis for this is that these attacks are easier and less expensive to execute than ever before, while offering very high rates of return for cybercriminals. Since the 2017 WannaCry epidemic, the ransomware industry has evolved through several stages, including: Large-Scale Campaigns: Ransomware attacks like WannaCry were designed to infect as many systems as possible.

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The Tower of Babble – Where Truth Goes to Die

TDAN

Once upon a time (the way every good fairy tale begins), a book or a paper by a Ted Codd or Bill Inmon would set in motion a sea change that swept us all in a new direction. We no longer live in that world.

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The Realities of Agile Transformation

Dataversity

The topic of agile transformation is emerging, either driven “bottom-up” from product leaders or “top-down” by C-level executives. Being primarily transformation of the business, it is a response to digital strategy, thus connected with a wide range of topics – including Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture. I will summarize the results of such a transformation […] The post The Realities of Agile Transformation appeared first on DATAVERSITY.