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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Google looked over the expanse of the growing internet and realized they’d need scalable systems. Cloudera was started in 2008, and HortonWorks started in 2011. Apache Pig in 2008 came too, but it didn’t ever see as much adoption. Apache HBase came in 2007, and Apache Cassandra came in 2008.

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Happy Leap Day!

The Pragmatic Engineer

But first, a few current cases of systems whose developers didn’t: In Sweden, card payments are down at a leading supermarket chain. Airline Avianca printed tickets dated as 3/1 instead of 2/29, thanks to their system not accounting for the leap day. The system was almost fully restored before noon.”

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Data Council 2023

Christophe Blefari

Organisations are systems with inputs and outputs and a formula. Scaling Uber metrics systems (w/ Pinot) — uMetric migration from ES to Pinot. He coined the "data scientist" term back in 2008. The analytics goal is to model correctly business. Formulas have metrics, relationships and weights.

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Top 18 Famous Ethical Hackers: The World Has Ever Known

Knowledge Hut

While hacking is illegal, ethical hacking is a legal method of breaching a security system to detect potential security threats. He wants to be simple and have fun while creating the best operating system. The company became a member of the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance in 2008.

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20 Best Cyber Security Books for Beginners and Professionals

Knowledge Hut

Cybersecurity involves protecting sensitive information and critical systems from digital attacks. A cybersecurity measure is designed to combat threats against networked systems and applications, regardless of whether they originate internally or externally. What is Cybersecurity? Published : May 22, 2014 by No Starch Press 5.

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

The Pragmatic Engineer

The bank’s systems start to be overloaded to the point of customers not being able to log on and transfer. The FDIC is a government agency whose goal is to maintain stability and public confidence in the US financial system. In general, I’m optimistic about the system’s ability to contain the fallout from SVB.

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Beyond the Hype: WebAssembly – from the browser to beyond by Colin Eberhardt

Scott Logic

Links from the podcast: WebAssembly nanoprocesses: making WebAssembly outside-the-browser secure by default AutoCAD featured in Google I/O Keynote WASI - WebAssembly System Interface How Prime Video updates its app for more than 8,000 device types Introducing the Disney+ Application Development Kit (ADK) Bytecode Alliance If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, (..)

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