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Building end-to-end security for Messenger

Engineering at Meta

We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our Messenger end-to-end encryption whitepaper describes the core cryptographic protocol for transmitting messages between clients.

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Setting The Stage For The Next Chapter Of The Cassandra Database

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The Cassandra database is one of the first open source options for globally scalable storage systems. The community recently released a new major version that marks a milestone in its maturity and stability as a project and database. Since its introduction in 2008 it has been powering systems at every scale.

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Simplifying Data Integration Through Eventual Connectivity

Data Engineering Podcast

Rather than manually defining all of the mappings ahead of time, we can rely on the power of graph databases and some strategic metadata to allow connections to occur as the data becomes available. In your white paper you mention the benefits of graph technology and how it solves the problem of data integration.

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3 Real-world Disaster Recovery Scenarios

Precisely

The firm’s ERP database had been compromised, and a well-organized group of hackers was demanding tens of thousands of dollars to release the data. Recent backups were also compromised, so the only options were to pay up or try to rebuild from an older copy of the company’s database. Learn more in our white paper.

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How to learn data engineering

Christophe Blefari

In a nutshell you have: text based formats (CSV, JSON and raw stuff), columnar file formats (Parquet, ORC), memory format ( Arrow ), transport protocols and format (Protobuf, Thrift, gRPC, Avro), table formats ( Hudi, Iceberg, Delta ), database and vendor formats (Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.).

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Data News — Week 22.47

Christophe Blefari

📗 White paper — Elastic cloud services: scaling Snowflake’s control p lane. With their SDK you can add a drag-and-drop panel that will in the browser auto-detect your CSV and let the user fix the issue while you'll be able to validate the data before inserting it in the database. Have fun reading this.

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Software Identifiers through the eyes of Nix

Tweag

The Guix team similarly published their own answer Dear CISA team, I appreciate your effort to gather comments about your recently released “Software Identification Ecosystem Option Analysis” white paper. In fact, several projects exist (e.g.