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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Rather than failing with an error, this encountered an existing bug in the DEC Unix “copy” (cp) command, where cp simply overwrote the source file with a zero-byte file. After this zero-byte file was deployed to prod, the Apache web server processes slowly picked up the empty configuration file.

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Apache Spark vs MapReduce: A Detailed Comparison

Knowledge Hut

quintillion bytes of data are created every single day, and it’s only going to grow from there. Market Demands for Spark and MapReduce Apache Spark was originally developed in 2009 at UC Berkeley by the team who later founded Databricks. collect(): Return all the elements of the dataset as an array at the driver program.

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Dynamic Typing in SQL

Rockset

Moreover, developers frequently prefer dynamic programming languages, so interacting with the strict type system of SQL is a barrier. Many of us at Rockset are fans of the Python programming language. As Peter Bailis put it in his post , querying unstructured data using SQL is a painful process.

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Big Data Timeline- Series of Big Data Evolution

ProjectPro

2009 - According to a Gartner report, Business Intelligence (BI) became a top priority for the Chief Information Officers in 2009. 2009 - A McKinsey report estimated that, on an average-a US company with 1000 employees stores more than 200 TB of data. quintillion bytes of data is produced everyday i.e. 2.5 zettabytes.