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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 hand-rolled C -code.

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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 Success [ ratio ] 100.00 % Status Codes [ code:count ] 200 : 3000 Error Set : The user experience with a real browser is much more interesting. We can use Vegeta for some basic HTTP load testing.

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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. Now, what if the retailer wants to find out what transactions were hand-coded into the system and what sales transaction were scanned into the POS system?

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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. Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding. Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format.

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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. Xplenty Using minimal code allows you to build a data pipeline. With this platform, users do not need to code in order to segregate data. Data tracking is becoming more and more important as technology evolves.

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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. Get FREE Access to Data Analytics Example Codes for Data Cleaning, Data Munging, and Data Visualization Walmart was the world’s largest retailer in 2014 in terms of revenue. 3) Write the code to reverse a linked list data structure.