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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

AltexSoft

Kafka can continue the list of brand names that became generic terms for the entire type of technology. Similar to Google in web browsing and Photoshop in image processing, it became a gold standard in data streaming, preferred by 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. What is Kafka? What Kafka is used for.

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Internal services pipeline in Analytics Platform

Picnic Engineering

We use the RabbitMQ Source connector for Apache Kafka Connect. One may wonder why don’t we replace RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka everywhere? In order to answer the first question, we should take a closer look at the difference between RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka in terms of services parallelism.

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Introducing Vector Search on Rockset: How to run semantic search with OpenAI and Rockset

Rockset

Under the hood, Rockset utilizes its Converged Index technology, which is optimized for metadata filtering, vector search and keyword search, supporting sub-second search, aggregations and joins at scale. Fast Search: Combine vector search and selective metadata filtering to deliver fast, efficient results.

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Building Real-time Machine Learning Foundations at Lyft

Lyft Engineering

At the time of writing, a Mapping team is working to utilize theEvent Driven Decisions product to rebuild Lyft’s Traffic infrastructure by aggregating data per geohash and applying a model. The interface was designed such that a minimal amount of metadata was needed to construct a pipeline object which performs a given capability.

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Deployment of Exabyte-Backed Big Data Components

LinkedIn Engineering

Figure 3: Generalized rolling upgrade deployment flow Namenode deployment overview The namenode is the central component of HDFS and is responsible for storing the metadata information about files and directories in the HDFS cluster. This metadata includes the namespace, file permissions, and the mapping of data blocks to datanodes.

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Evolution of Streaming Pipelines in Lyft’s Marketplace

Lyft Engineering

The first type of pipeline was mainly for event ingestion, filtration, hydration, and metadata tagging. It produces high-quality signals and publishes them to Kafka topics. The second type of pipeline ingests Kafka topics and aggregates data into standard ML features.

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20 Best Open Source Big Data Projects to Contribute on GitHub

ProjectPro

It was built from the ground up for interactive analytics and can scale to the size of Facebook while approaching the speed of commercial data warehouses. Presto allows you to query data stored in Hive, Cassandra, relational databases, and even bespoke data storage. CMAK is developed to help the Kafka community.