Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 9, 2023

Explore is one of the largest recommendation systems on Instagram. Using more advanced machine learning models, like Two Towers neural networks, we’ve been able to make the Explore recommendation system even more scalable and flexible. locally popular media), which further contributes to system scalability.

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Pinterest Engineering

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, our machine learning powered ads ranking systems are trying to understand users’ engagement and conversion intent and promote the right ads to the right user at the right time. Specifically, such discrepancies unfold into the following scenarios: Bug-free scenario : Our ads ranking system is working bug-free.

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dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Let’s discuss how to convert events from an event-driven microservice architecture into relational tables in a warehouse like Snowflake. Quality problems lead to first responders unable to check into disaster sites or parents unable to access ESA funds. So our solution was to start using an intentional contract: Events.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Join in with the event for the global data community, Data Council Austin. Don't miss out on their only event this year! What are the pain points that are still prevalent in lakehouse architectures as compared to warehouse or vertically integrated systems? Don't miss out on our only event this year!

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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 18, 2024

CISSP stands for Certified Information Systems Security Professional, and it is a certification in cyber security. This professional certification is developed and offered by (ISC)2, also known as International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. are interconnected and can be a part of your job description.

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U-Next

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As my thoughts started wandering around our Banking systems and Cosmos Bank Cyber-attack 2018. There is a rapid increase in banking frauds like identity theft, phishing, vishing, smishing, access to debit/credit card details, and UPI/QR code scams. The system should time and again monitor and report audit authorities.

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LinkedIn Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With a reasonably sizable footprint of servers in data centers, LinkedIn is responsible for ensuring that these hosts are always on an operating system (OS) version deemed the ���latest and greatest��� for all intents and purposes. The individual/automation must retrieve the same after authenticating to the DataVault token service.��

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 11, 2024

From Sella’s status page : “Following the installation of an update to the operating system and related firmware which led to an unstable situation. Still, I’m puzzled by how long the system has been down. If it was an update to Oracle, or to the operating system, then why not roll back the update?

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Cloudera

JUNE 2, 2022

In a recent customer workshop with a large retail data science media company, one of the attendees, an engineering leader, made the following observation: “Everytime I go to your competitor website, they only care about their system. How to onboard data into their system? I don’t care about their system.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 27, 2020

Summary A majority of the scalable data processing platforms that we rely on are built as distributed systems. Kyle Kingsbury created the Jepsen framework for testing the guarantees of distributed data processing systems and identifying when and why they break. This brings with it a vast number of subtle ways that errors can creep in.

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Rockset

DECEMBER 19, 2023

From his early days at Quora to leading projects at Facebook and his current venture at Fennel (a real-time feature store for ML), Nikhil has traversed the evolving landscape of machine learning engineering and machine learning infrastructure specifically in the context of recommendation systems.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 20, 2020

Summary Wind energy is an important component of an ecologically friendly power system, but there are a number of variables that can affect the overall efficiency of the turbines. Michael Tegtmeier founded Turbit Systems to help operators of wind farms identify and correct problems that contribute to suboptimal power outputs.

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 5, 2023

If you have a passion for information technology (IT) and dream of turning it into a fulfilling career, ponder the path of a systems engineer. Join us on a detailed exploration of who can pursue a career as a systems engineer and the steps to become one in the year 2024. Who is a System Engineer, and What Do They Do?

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 3, 2024

Kafka offers better fault tolerance because of its event-driven processing. Its interoperability with other kinds of systems, however, might appear to be extremely difficult. Processing Type Kafka analyses events as they often take place. A continuous processing model is an outcome.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 3, 2024

Join us at the top event for the global data community, Data Council Austin. Don't miss out on our only event this year! What are the skills and systems that need to be in place to effectively execute on an AI program? "AI" Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/data-council and use code dataengpod20 to register today!

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Rockset

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Event-based architectures have been gaining popularity for some time. With increased adoption has come a flood of options for aggregating and analyzing events. Which databases are optimized for ingesting streaming events and analyzing them in real time? Supporting separation of data access (read/write) mechanisms like CQRS.

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Rockset

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Event streams, such as clickstreams, IoT data and other time series data, are common sources of data into these apps. The broad adoption of Apache Kafka has helped make these event streams more accessible. In this post, we compare two options for real-time analytics on event and CDC streams: Rockset and ClickHouse.

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Snowflake

JUNE 28, 2023

This empowers organizations to break free from the burdensome task of spinning up and managing complex standalone systems operating outside of Snowflake’s governance boundary. This integration allows users to securely connect to a git repo from a Snowflake account and access contents from any branch / tag / commit within Snowflake.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Over the decades of research and development into building these software systems there are a number of common components that are shared across implementations. Join us at the top event for the global data community, Data Council Austin. Don't miss out on our only event this year! Don't miss out on our only event this year!

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 6, 2019

Summary The database market continues to expand, offering systems that are suited to virtually every use case. In this episode Ryan Worl explains how it is architected, how to use it for your applications, and provides examples of system design patterns that can be built on top of it.

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Snowflake

APRIL 29, 2024

DORA: Building a More Secure Financial System DORA, enacted in January 2023, moves beyond reactive measures, requiring FEs and their service providers to proactively identify vulnerabilities, prevent disruptions and plan for swift recovery from incidents. These features further enhance the protection of customers’ sensitive data.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Summary Kafka has become a ubiquitous technology, offering a simple method for coordinating events and data across different systems. In the event of these different cluster errors, what are the strategies for mitigating and recovering from those failures? Operating it at scale, however, is notoriously challenging.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If you had a continuous deployment system up and running around 2010, you were ahead of the pack: but today it’s considered strange if your team would not have this for things like web applications.  We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. and hand-rolled C -code.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 17, 2024

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

During a recent talk titled Hunters ATT&CKing with the Right Data , which I presented with my brother Jose Luis Rodriguez at ATT&CKcon, we talked about the importance of documenting and modeling security event logs before developing any data analytics while preparing for a threat hunting engagement. Yeah…I can do that already!

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 10, 2024

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Snowflake

APRIL 9, 2024

To improve go-to-market (GTM) efficiency, Snowflake created a bi-directional data share with Outreach that provides consistent access to the current version of all our customer engagement data. They always have access to the most current data, because Outreach’s updates are made and distributed automatically.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. We used Elasticsearch dashboards to analyze results.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 16, 2023

As the capabilities of these systems has improved and become more accessible, the target of what self-serve means changes. Their SDKs make event streaming from any app or website easy, and their extensive library of integrations enable you to automatically send data to hundreds of downstream tools.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 18, 2023

He also explains why data security is distinct from application security and some methods for reducing the challenge of working across different data systems. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Join in with the event for the global data community, Data Council Austin.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 29, 2024

This new connector offers immediate access to your Google Analytics data without the hassle, complexity and expense of manual integration via API endpoints and patched systems workarounds. Your data will now automatically refresh within your Snowflake account based on your preferred frequency. The connector changes that!

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Raw Data Aggregated Data Data Government 107

Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

An event is a small, self-contained object that contains the details of something happened at some point in time e.g. user interaction. An event is generated by a producer (e.g. Traditional databases are ill-suited for storing events in high throughput event streams. online dashboard).

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Zalando Engineering

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Zalando is using an event-driven approach for its new Fashion Platform. Conor Clifford examines why In a recent post , I wrote about how we went about building the core Article services and applications, of Zalando’s new Fashion Platform, with a strong event first focus.

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Robinhood

MARCH 26, 2024

The event is available to livestream on go.robinhood.com/presents at 7:15 pm ET on March 26 and will be available for replay. It’s why we started Robinhood and gave our customers access to features like commission free trading and the 24 Hour Market,” said Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder and CEO of Robinhood. © 2024 Robinhood.

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Banking Insurance Finance Programming 120

Cloudera

MARCH 6, 2024

As we enter into a new month, the Cloudera team is getting ready to head off to the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida for one of the most important events of the year for Chief Data Analytics Officers (CDAOs) and the field of data and analytics. Add a Human To The Loop: An Introduction to RLHF & DPO.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 24, 2024

Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.

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