Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 28, 2024

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Dagster offers a new approach to building and running data platforms and data pipelines. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/dagster today to get started. Your first 30 days are free! Data lakes are notoriously complex.

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 6, 2024

Applying systems thinking views a system as a set of interconnected and interdependent components defined by its limits and more than the sum of their parts (subsystems). When one component of a system is altered, the effects frequently spread across the entire system. are the main objectives of systems thinking.

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Zalando Engineering

MAY 13, 2024

As a design system evolves alongside with the brand it represents, there are often multiple occasions when a need to introduce variations arises. The previous article on this blog gives a wider overview of the Zalando Design System. The previous article on this blog gives a wider overview of the Zalando Design System.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And this renewed focus on data quality is bringing much needed visibility into the health of technical systems. In addition, Snow f lake Cortex enables organizations to quickly analyze data and build AI applications directly within Snowflake. Krishan shares his thoughts on what LLMs will bring to the data space. What do you need to do?

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Lyft Engineering

APRIL 21, 2023

Building a large scale unsupervised model anomaly detection system — Part 1 Distributed Profiling of Model Inference Logs By Anindya Saha , Han Wang , Rajeev Prabhakar Introduction LyftLearn is Lyft’s ML Platform. This motivated us to continue improving the existing Anomaly Detection system.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Not only could this recommendation system save time browsing through lists of movies, it can also give more personalized results so users don’t feel overwhelmed by too many options. What are Movie Recommendation Systems? Recommender systems have two main categories: content-based & collaborative filtering.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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Rockset

MARCH 28, 2024

Overview In this guide, you will: Gain a high-level understanding of vectors, embeddings, vector search, and vector databases, which will clarify the concepts we will build upon. Build a dynamic web application using vanilla CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and Flask, seamlessly integrating with the Rockset API and the OpenAI API.

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 17, 2024

In the early 1940s, Toyota automotive in Japan used a simple planning system to manage and control work and inventory at each stage optimally. It is related to lean and just-in-time JIT production, where it is used as a scheduling system to indicate what to produce, when, and how much. How does Kanban System work?

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 22, 2024

I have comprehensively analyzed the area of physical security, particularly the ongoing discussion surrounding fail safe vs fail-safe secure electric strike locking systems. These two distinct approaches offer unique strategies for securing buildings and valuables. What are Fail-Safe Door Locks?

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And this renewed focus on data quality is bringing much needed visibility into the health of technical systems. In addition, Snow f lake Cortex enables organizations to quickly analyze data and build AI applications directly within Snowflake. Krishan shares his thoughts on what LLMs will bring to the data space. What do you need to do?

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Summary A significant amount of time in data engineering is dedicated to building connections and semantic meaning around pieces of information. In this episode Brian Platz explains how JSON-LD can be used as a shared representation of linked data for building semantic data products. Hex brings everything together. What is JSON-LD?

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Lyft Engineering

APRIL 25, 2023

Building a large scale unsupervised model anomaly detection system — Part 2 Building ML Models with Observability at Scale By Rajeev Prabhakar , Han Wang , Anindya Saha Photo by Octavian Rosca on Unsplash In our previous blog we discussed the different challenges we faced for model monitoring and our strategy for addressing some of these problems.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 10, 2021

In this episode Mark Grover explains what he is building at Stemma, how it expands on the success of the Amundsen project, and why trust is the most important asset for data teams. It builds your customer data warehouse and your identity graph on your data warehouse, with support for Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and more.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Summary Building a well managed data ecosystem for your organization requires a holistic view of all of the producers, consumers, and processors of information. The team at Metaphor are building a fully connected metadata layer to provide both technical and social intelligence about your data. No more scripts, just SQL.

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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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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 21, 2019

Summary Building internal expertise around big data in a large organization is a major competitive advantage. They discuss the challenges of being at global scale from the start, hiring and training talented engineers, prototyping and deploying new systems in the cloud, and what they have learned in the process.

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 2, 2024

Solutions: As part of team-building talk to employees and share their cultures and activities so that everyone knows a little about the team If you meet someone with the same cultural background, bonding can also improve which will together increase productivity 4. Working remotely is the new trend that is transcending industries.

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Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Summary Data engineering systems are complex and interconnected with myriad and often opaque chains of dependencies. Prefect is the modern Dataflow Automation platform for the modern data stack, empowering data practitioners to build, run and monitor robust pipelines at scale. Atlan is the metadata hub for your data ecosystem.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 28, 2024

Summary Monitoring and auditing IT systems for security events requires the ability to quickly analyze massive volumes of unstructured log data. The majority of products that are available either require too much effort to structure the logs, or aren't fast enough for interactive use cases. for the prroduct?

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Summary Building streaming applications has gotten substantially easier over the past several years. Decodable was built with a mission of eliminating all of the painful aspects of developing and deploying stream processing systems for engineering teams. How can you get the best results for your use case?

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Jean-Georges Perrin was tasked with designing a new data platform implementation at PayPal and wound up building a data mesh. It's supposed to make building smarter, faster, and more flexible data infrastructures a breeze. What are the technical systems that you are relying on to power the different data domains?

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 17, 2022

Over the years, I’ve helped companies of all sizes build and maintain data systems—from my days as a data engineer at Facebook to my current role as an end-to-end data solutions consultant. It’s never too early to start building reliability into your data system. The stakes also get higher.

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databricks

MAY 14, 2024

Successfully building GenAI applications means going beyond just leveraging the latest cutting-edge models. It requires the development of compound AI systems that integrate.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The information system is a very vast concept that encompasses several aspects like database management, the communication system, various devices, several connections, the internet, collection, organization, and storing data and other information-related applications that are typically used in a business forum.

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Lyft Engineering

APRIL 3, 2023

This blog post focuses on the scope and the goals of the recommendation system, and explores some of the most recent changes the Rider team has made to better serve Lyft’s riders. Introduction: Scope of the Recommendation System The recommendation system covers user experiences throughout the ride journey.

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 9, 2024

The most common approaches are Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), lean product development, Kanban, SAFe, the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), and the Crystal family of methods: The agile methodology encourages continuous iteration of advancement and testing during the project software development life cycle. What is Agile?

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

ERP and CRM systems are designed and built to fulfil a broad range of business processes and functions. Accessing Operational Data I used to connect to views in transactional databases or APIs offered by operational systems to request the raw data. Does it sound familiar?

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KDnuggets

MAY 18, 2023

Machine Learning System Design: With end-to-end examples is a practical guide for planning and designing successful ML applications. It lays out a clear, repeatable framework for building, maintaining, and improving systems at any scale.

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Data Engineering Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In this episode Ian Schweer shares his experiences at Riot Games supporting player-focused features such as machine learning models and recommeder systems that are deployed as part of the game binary. The biggest challenge with modern data systems is understanding what data you have, where it is located, and who is using it.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Recognizing this shortcoming and the capabilities that could be unlocked by a robust solution Rishabh Poddar helped to create Opaque Systems as an outgrowth of his PhD studies. RudderStack helps you build a customer data platform on your warehouse or data lake. Sign up free at dataengineeringpodcast.com/rudder Build Data Pipelines.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 27, 2023

Summary Data persistence is one of the most challenging aspects of computer systems. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team. Why Postgres?

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Pinterest Engineering

JANUARY 10, 2023

Liang Ma | Software Engineer, Core Eng; Wei Zhu | Software Engineer, Observability In early 2020, during a critical iOS out of memory incident (we have a blogpost for that), we realized that we didn’t have much visibility of how the app is running or a good system to look up for monitoring and troubleshooting.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We’re introducing Arcadia, Meta’s unified system that simulates the compute, memory, and network performance of AI training clusters. We need a systemized source of truth that can simulate various performance factors across compute, storage, and network collectively. For instance, the AI Research SuperCluster for AI research.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We have built an internal system that allows someone to perform in-video search across the entire Netflix video catalog, and we’d like to share our experience in building this system. Building in-video search To build such a visual search engine, we needed a machine learning system that can understand visual elements.

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Rockset

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the good fortune to host a small-group discussion on personalization and recommendation systems with two technical experts with years of experience at FAANG and other web-scale companies. Nikhil Garg is CEO and co-founder of Fennel AI , a startup working on building the future of real-time machine learning infrastructure.

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