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A Definitive Guide to Using BigQuery Efficiently

Towards Data Science

Like a dragon guarding its treasure, each byte stored and each query executed demands its share of gold coins. Join as we journey through the depths of cost optimization, where every byte is a precious coin. It is also possible to set a maximum for the bytes billed for your query. Photo by Konstantin Evdokimov on Unsplash ?

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Snowflake Cloning Facts

Cloudyard

As per the definition: RETAINED_FOR_CLONE_BYTES: Bytes owned by (and billed to) this table that are retained after deletion because they are referenced by one or more clones of this table. Retained For Cloned Bytes So till the time your CLONE table is available you have to pay the storage cost even the original table is dropped.

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A guide to UDP in Scala with FS2

Rock the JVM

The UDP header is fixed at 8 bytes and contains a source port, destination port, the checksum used to verify packet integrity by the receiving device, and the length of the packet which equates to the sum of the payload and header. flip () println ( s "[server] I've received ${content.limit()} bytes " + s "from ${clientAddress.toString()}!

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Functional Python, Part II: Dial M for Monoid

Tweag

They allow the definition of “interfaces for types”, where values of types which conform to that specification can be freely swapped out. reading and writing to a byte stream). classmethod def decode ( cls , data : bytes ) - > Self : # Implementation goes here. traits” in Rust and “concepts” in C++20).

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Postgres Aurora DB major version upgrade with minimal downtime

Lyft Engineering

This should definitely help bring down the downtime further given that all of the steps for replication, cutting the traffic over to the upgraded DB, and the rollback setup would be handled within their platform. The diff_bytes is 0 now! As of October 2023, AWS now supports blue/green deployment for Aurora Postgres.

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5 Big Data Challenges in 2024

Knowledge Hut

quintillion bytes (or 2.5 Two, it creates a commonality of data definitions, concepts, metadata and the like. With the rise in opportunities related to Big Data, challenges are also bound to increase. Below are the 5 major Big Data challenges that enterprises face in 2024: 1. exabytes) of information is being generated every day.

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Improving Efficiency Of Goku Time Series Database at Pinterest (Part?—?1)

Pinterest Engineering

See the graph below, which shows the compaction read and write bytes on a cluster when it is bootstrapping for the first time. Figure 10: compaction read and write bytes showing non zero values as soon as host starts up. This slow bootstrap time was a definite hindrance on our move to less compute heavy instances for cost savings.