Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We also co-presented talks at EkoParty, DEF CON, Hardwear.io, Pwn2own, and other security research summits. We received more than 100 bug reports and awarded over $320,000 in total.

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KDnuggets

JUNE 11, 2025

Moving Toward Industrial-Scale Research While each of these datasets has helped shape the field, they all present limitations—either in scale, data freshness, user diversity, or metadata completeness. Licensing limitations have since restricted access to newer versions of the dataset.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

According to Tomasz, an AI use-case presents the opportunity for cost reduction if one of three criteria are met: 1. While those numbers are certainly impressive by modern standards, they still present some key limitations for the use of AI. It’s mostly cost reduction. Klarna cut two-thirds of their head count. Repetitive jobs 2.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. In this context, they refer to a count very close to accurate, presented with minimal delays. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article is the first in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. It is challenging to scale such bespoke solutions to ever-changing and increasingly complex businessneeds.

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Netflix Tech

JANUARY 6, 2025

This situation presents both challenges and opportunities; while it may be more difficult to make initial progress, there are plenty of easy wins to capitalize on. These elements are critical for a titles eligibility in a row, accurate personalization, and an engaging presentation. artwork, trailers, supplemental messages).

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That said, managing vast, complex data sets across multiple brands, loyalty programs and guest touchpoints presents unique challenges for companies in this industry. Enter the Composable CDP on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for Travel and Hospitality.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Let’s dive into the evolution of backend development, from computing’s early days up to the present, and try and predict what the future holds. It was a high-pressure environment, and yet we needed to build systems for the present, and also for unpredictable but ever-increasing future loads.

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Zalando Engineering

MARCH 6, 2025

Those without the capacity relied on an existing unified data source, such as our Presentation API, inheriting its version of product data. To serve the presentation view of a Product Offer, a multi-stage event-driven system merged Product, Price, and Stock events into a single structure. This led to competing sources of truth.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

ProjectPro has precisely that in this section, but before presenting it, we would like to answer a few common questions to strengthen your inclination towards data engineering further. It involves building pipelines that can fetch data from the source, transform it into a usable form, and analyze variables present in the data.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Obtaining this data from Hive in a format that can be presented to users is not straightforward. However, copying and storing data from the warehouse in these other systems presented material computational and storage costs that were not offset by the overall effectiveness of the cache, making this infeasible as well.

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Scott Logic

MARCH 6, 2025

Bolt knows none of this and proudly presents its Word Game as though it were the finished article. Theyd also have enough experience to understand that they dont need to know everything or have detailed requirements, tasks (whether programming or not) can be iterative and collaborative.

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Pinterest Engineering

APRIL 4, 2025

Offline Experiments We now present offline experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of each modeling decision. Summary In this work, we presented an LLM-based relevance system for Pinterest Search. Figure 3: Diagram of the proposed search relevance system at Pinterest. in search fulfillment rates.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s heterogeneous data ecosystems, integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources presents several obstacles: data often exists in various formats, with inconsistencies in definitions, structures, and quality standards.

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Snowflake

APRIL 9, 2025

Since snowboards often have a wooden core, and because a snowboard is the traditional trophy for the Snowflake Startup Challenge, were going to go ahead and say that the snowboard trophy qualifies as a present for the fifth anniversary of our Startup Challenge. The judges will deliberate live before naming the 2025 Grand Prize winner.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 2, 2023

On 6 August 2021, Natalia's name was changed to "Natalia Stadler:" Natalie Stadler was present in the 2021 conference lineup, as well as for the 2022 one. Given the timing, it seems highly likely that the conference's organizers invented a woman profile to address the concerns raised by Matty Stratton.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

The datasets are usually present in Hadoop Distributed File Systems and other databases integrated with the platform. The above figure shows the common elements present in the architecture. However, no such option is present in Spark SQL. These features are not present in Apache Hive.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yet, the complexity and computational demands of LLM inference present a challenge. Large language models (LLMs) are at the heart of generative AI transformations, driving solutions across industries from efficient customer support to simplified data analysis. Inference costs remain prohibitive for many workloads.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 15, 2025

Complexity and Variability Each type of unstructured data—text, images, videos, or audio—presents unique challenges. Adopting an intelligent scheduling engine to process data using GPU and CPU, adjusting to the intensity of the workload to balance cost and efficiency, presents a unique challenge.

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ArcGIS

JUNE 11, 2025

In this blog, we’ve handpicked some must-see presentations tailored to your interests, along with helpful resources at the end to get you conference-ready. In addition, the Demo Theater will feature a variety of presentations to help you understand the Utility Network across telecom, electric, and water domains.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Outliers present in Data Erroneous Data. dropna() - Returns a filtered version of the data present. Filling Null Values Sometimes Null values might not be that irrelevant data, and if we get to know some patterns in the null values present, we might be able to deduce clean data. Presence of Irrelevant Data.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The cost of benchmarking Given the team has relatively little funding: how much does infrastructure cost?

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Next, you will find a section that presents the definition of a time series forecasting article. Here the value for E t depends on the weighted sum of the errors in the past and present along with a constant term. We can discuss many more use cases, but what’s the fun if we don’t present a detailed solution, right?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 19, 2023

When presented with information: don't assume it is correct. ChatGPT can be an unexpectedly useful to break down jargon terms: just don't forget to verify its definition, as ChatGPT can make things up. Validate information and do your research. Look for sources, and question where the details come from.

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Scott Logic

JUNE 12, 2025

The apps then present this live data in clean, modern user interfaces. Whereas the underlying systems have disparate interfaces, the web apps present a consistent interface to the user. In this way, the apps ‘break up’ the monolithic applications they’re interfacing with, decoupling different workflows and functions.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Managed Apache Spark environments — such as Databricks, Amazon EMR, and certain Cloudera deployments — can present teams with a plethora of pain points, which may include complexity, unpredictable costs, security concerns, or performance issues.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

However, if the analyst would have used a few data pre-processing methods and presented the same data through more appropriate charts, it would look more appealing and understandable at the same time. Hence, presenting spectacular designs and creative but informative visualizations is considered an asset in any industry.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Product catalog applications consolidate data in files from multiple sources and present it in a customized manner. Based on historical data, the app will present a trend chart of the prices on the result page. The growing popularity of radio stations presents a window of opportunity for several enterprises to stand out.

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dbt Developer Hub

JANUARY 22, 2025

Put another way, SQL Comprehension tools recognize SQL code and deduce more information about that SQL than is present in the tokens themselves. Remember that comprehension is deducing more information than is present in the plain text of the query; by comprehending more, you can validate more.

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Precisely

MARCH 18, 2025

As Gartner analyst Saul Judah stated in his presentation, How to Create a Data and Analytics Strategy for Real Business Results: The goal is to create a business strategy that is infused with data, analytics and AI not a data strategy or an analytics strategy. “ Prioritize data quality. So, do these sound familiar?

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

While the bot is yet to make it to the bestsellers’ list, it can quickly present you with short bedtime stories for kids with simple vocabulary and easy-to-follow narratives. It will not only highlight the error but also present you with a detailed solution for fixing it. Even ChatGPT can do that! Let ChatGPT help you out.

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Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Creation-publish success rate (cPSR) Where %FIRE and TTNC measure how content is presented to a user, we have one other important metric: cPSR, the creation-publish success rate. In the iOS app, we use PHPickerViewController , introduced in iOS 14, to power the photo and video gallery presented in the Composer. The culprit was Drafts.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 15, 2025

Youll use the Rasterio Python library to create functions that extract the GeoTIFF metadata, evaluate the bands present in the GeoTIFF and ultimately read and convert the centroid of each pixel into vector data (points). Combining these two data sources together to do a nearest-neighbor analysis involves three steps: 1. Load the GeoTIFF file.

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