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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

It’s fascinating how what is considered “modern” for backend practices keep evolving over time; back in the 2000s, virtualizing your servers was the cutting-edge thing to do; while around 2010 if you onboarded to the cloud, you were well ahead of the pack. And it lost pointers to all its resources!

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Launching the Engineering Blog

Zalando Engineering

ms , 38.382 ms , 59.958 ms , 244.094 ms Bytes In [ total, mean ] 51441000 , 17147.00 Bytes Out [ total, mean ] 0 , 0.00 This feature is used to upload all files from the output directory (generated by Pelican) to the blog's S3 bucket. We can use Vegeta for some basic HTTP load testing. Duration [ total, attack, wait ] 59.995 s , 59.98

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Is the data warehouse going under the data lake?

ProjectPro

The desire to save every bit and byte of data for future use, to make data-driven decisions is the key to staying ahead in the competitive world of business operations. All this is possible due to the low cost storage systems like Hadoop and Amazon S3.

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Top 14 Big Data Analytics Tools in 2024

Knowledge Hut

quintillion bytes of data today, and unless that data is organized properly, it is useless. MongoDB This free, open-source platform, which came into the limelight in 2010, is a document-oriented (NoSQL) database that is used to store a large amount of information in a structured manner. A global data explosion is generating almost 2.5

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

Netflix Tech

The goal is to have the compressed image look as close to the original as possible while reducing the number of bytes required. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. Shown below is one original source image from the Kodak dataset and the corresponding result with JPEG 444 @ 20,429 bytes and with AVIF 444 @ 19,788 bytes.

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Booking’s Journey with Brotli

Booking.com Engineering

When we enabled brotli in a straightforward manner, it reduced bytes sent as expected. In the end, we decided that the brotli treatment was better mainly on the basis of sending 10% fewer bytes over the wire. Does sending fewer bytes actually drive performance? In hindsight, there was a lot of evidence that I was wrong.

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How Big Data Analysis helped increase Walmarts Sales turnover?

ProjectPro

One petabyte is equivalent to 20 million filing cabinets; worth of text or one quadrillion bytes. train.csv- This file has historical training dataset from 2010 to 2012 containing the below information- i) The Store Number ii) The Department Number iii) The Week iv) Weekly Sales of a particular department in a particular store.