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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Apache HBase came in 2007, and Apache Cassandra came in 2008. At various times it’s been Java, Scala, and Python. Apache Pig in 2008 came too, but it didn’t ever see as much adoption. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. Now people are excited about Rust.

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Snowflake and the Pursuit Of Precision Medicine

Snowflake

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has dramatically dropped the price of genomic sequencing, from about $1 million in 2007 to $600 today per whole genome sequencing (WGS). Its implementation has primarily been hastened by reducing sequencing costs.

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Kafka vs RabbitMQ - A Head-to-Head Comparison for 2023

ProjectPro

Kafka vs. RabbitMQ -Source language Kafka, written in Java and Scala, was first released in 2011 and is an open-source technology, while RabbitMQ was built in Erlang in 2007 Kafka vs. RabbitMQ - Push/Pull - Smart/Dumb Kafka employs a pull mechanism where clients/consumers can pull data from the broker in batches. Spring, Swift.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

Netflix Tech

These include, but are not limited to, Conductor , Dagobah , Metaflow , Titus , Iceberg , Trino, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Spark, Ray, MezzFS , S3, Baggins , FSx , and Java/Scala-based applications with Spring Boot.

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