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The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University
What goes into bronze, silver, and gold layers of a medallion data architecture? | by Lak Lakshmanan | Sep, 2024 | Medium by Lak Lakshmanan
Using DuckDB-WASM for in-browser Data Engineering by Tobias Müller
Go talk to the LLM
The CDC MERGE Pattern. by Ryan Blue | by Tabular | Medium by Tabular
FireDucks : Pandas but 100x faster
#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run by
Amazon Data Firehose supports continuous replication of database changes to Apache Iceberg Tables in Amazon S3 - AWS by
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Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and computer use now in Amazon Bedrock - AWS
- It will be fun to see how the computer use api will evolve
It’s Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages
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NotebookLM | Note Taking & Research Assistant Powered by AI
- Very interesting experiment from google which provides a summary of any article, video or file. Additionaly can generate a podcast talking about it!
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Talks - Juliana Ferreira Alves: Improve Your ML Projects: Embrace Reproducibility and Production… by PyCon US
- These truly looks like a good improvement to an ml project 👀
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Copy-on-Write (CoW) — pandas 2.2.3 documentation
- Ptty big change to pandas 3.0 but one I think will bring a lot of clarity to data transformations
Announcing DuckDB 1.1.0 – DuckDB by The DuckDB team
Introducing Contextual Retrieval \ Anthropic
What is a Vector Index? An Introduction to Vector Indexing by Alejandro CantareroField CTO of AI, DataStax
Chunking · Malaikannan
Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform - InfoQ by Nikhil Simha
- This is a very high level overview of the feature platform but allowed me to get a better sense on why use this platform. But I’d love to test it to understand if for those without streaming I’m this isn’t a bit overkill
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Deno 2.0 Release Candidate
Time spent programming is often time well spent - Stan Bright
What I tell people new to on-call | nicole@web
What is io_uring?
Memory Management in DuckDB – DuckDB by Mark Raasveldt
Yuno | How Apache Hudi transformed Yuno’s data lake
Google Proposes Adding Pipe Syntax to SQL - InfoQ by Renato Losio
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PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 17 Released!
The sorry state of Java deserialization @ marginalia.nu
- Interesting to see that duckdb is serving as the benchmark to process data in the order of GB’s
Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models
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I Like Makefiles by Sebastian Witowski
- I tend to avoid make files because I hadn’t looked at how they worked and always associated either Java projects. I might want to take another look at them
Rethinking Analyst Roles in the Age of Generative AI by Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡
No, Data Engineers Don’t NEED dbt. | by Leo Godin | Jul, 2024 | Data Engineer Things by Leo Godin
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Gotten my reading from +100 articles to 58! 🎉
Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems by Colin Breck
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS | All Things Distributed by Werner Vogels
Iceberg vs Hudi — Benchmarking TableFormats | by Mudit Sharma | Aug, 2024 | Flipkart Tech Blog by Mudit Sharma
Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA by Jordan Tigani, Brett Griffin
How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite by Carlo Francisco
Table format comparisons - How do the table formats represent the canonical set of files? — Jack Vanlightly by Jack Vanlightly
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Should you be migrating to an Iceberg Lakehouse? | Hightouch by Hugo Lu
How data departments have evolved and spread across English football clubs - The Athletic by Mark Carey
How to use AI coding tools to learn a new programming language - The GitHub Blog by Sara Verdi
How to choose the best rendering strategy for your app – Vercel by Alice Alexandra MooreSr. Content Engineer, Vercel
Amazon’s Exabyte-Scale Migration from Apache Spark to Ray on Amazon EC2 | AWS Open Source Blog
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Don’t Use JS for That: Moving Features to CSS and HTML by Kilian Valkhof by JSConf
AWS Chatbot now allows you to interact with Amazon Bedrock agents from Microsoft Teams and Slack - AWS
Astro 5.0 Beta Release | Astro by Erika
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development | nicole@web
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables - AWS
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Introducing OpenAI o1 | OpenAI
Rewrite Bigdata in Rust by Xuanwo
Recommending for Long-Term Member Satisfaction at Netflix | by Netflix Technology Blog | Aug, 2024 | Netflix TechBlog by Netflix Technology Blog
- Til: reward engineering. Measure proxy features and optimize for them to get to your actual end goal
We need to talk about ENUMs | boringSQL by Radim Marek
I spent 8 hours learning Parquet. Here’s what I discovered | by Vu Trinh | Aug, 2024 | Data Engineer Things by Vu Trinh
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What I Gave Up To Become An Engineering Manager by Suresh Choudhary
Unpacking the Buzz around ClickHouse - by Chris Riccomini by Chris Riccomini
Introducing job queuing to scale your AWS Glue workloads | AWS Big Data Blog
”SRE” doesn’t seem to mean anything useful any more
Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development - InfoQ by Robert Krzaczyński
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Production-ready Docker Containers with uv by Hynek Schlawack
Many of us can save a child’s life, if we rely on the best data - Our World in Data by By: Max Roser
- Another article that I find eye opening when we look at data to improve our decisions
Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker by Hynek Schlawack
- Suddenly this way of working, very similar to node modules, is being talked everywhere.
Python Developers Survey 2023 Results
- Was looking for this for a long time. Got to learn a bit more on twine, mlflow and sqlmodel. In terms of getting on track with python world I think I’m good with my current rss feed and podcast
Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again | Elastic Blog by ByShay Banon29 August 2024
Monitor data quality in your data lake using PyDeequ and AWS Glue | AWS Big Data Blog
- Data drift detection 👀
- Makes sense. Pydeequ is just a wrapper
How top data teams are structured by Mikkel Dengsøe
- As I work on a team that doesn’t have this kind of distribution I need to reflect a bit on the impact of being the sole data engineer on an ML team
Talks - Amitosh Swain: Testing Data Pipelines by PyCon US
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uv: Unified Python packaging
Wow, need to test this out on my side projects.
CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024 | Blog | build-your-own.org by James Smith
Timeless Skills For Data Engineers And Analysts by SeattleDataGuy
Skimmed the article but although high level I find the main points very true. Understanding the system, being on top of the state of the art. That and the tips for head of data
CSS 4, 5, and 6! With Google’s Una and Adam by Syntax
Great episode! Nice to see that css is getting better and better
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I’ve Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It by Sebastian Witowski
Wow, I’d love this one man saas but knowing how it can burn you out…
NodeJS Evolves by Syntax
Nice episode on the long sought features for node that have been introduced on bun and demo (single file, typescript support and top await async are the big ones for me)
Talks - Brandt Bucher: Building a JIT compiler for CPython by PyCon US
Python Insider: Python 3.13.0 release candidate 1 released
Great to see a new version coming along! Is pdb worth using with vs code? 🤔
Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor | Ars Technica by Samuel Axon
As a google to owner would be good to know that my working hardware wouldn’t brick just because I don’t want to upgrade
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Can Reading Make You Happier? | The New Yorker by Ceridwen Dovey
Beyond Hypermodern: Python is easy now - Chris Arderne
Although I had my eyes already on rye I certainly didn’t know it was so full feature. Gotta try and change some of my projects to it ,
Visual Studio Code July 2024 by Microsoft
Python support slowly getting good
Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub - The GitHub Blog by Thomas Dohmke
Creativity Fundamentally Comes From Memorization
Gen AI Increases Workloads and Decreases Productivity Upwork Study Finds - InfoQ by Sergio De Simone
The report raises a good point about an increase in workload. With a big productivity boost bosses might start loading even bigger workloads than what we gained from the productivity boost
Ofc this isn’t good as people will feel overloaded
tea-tasting: a Python package for the statistical analysis of A/B tests | Evgeny Ivanov by Evgeny Ivanov
Super interesting IMO. Might give it a try on my team when we start deploying solutions to our clients
Data Science Spotlight: Cracking the SQL Interview at Instacart (LLM Edition) | by Monta Shen | Jul 2024 | tech-at-instacart by Monta Shen
Would be interesting to test this out. Have an example of a dataset that can be queried using duckdb. Given a question understand if a query is correct how to fix it and improve it’s performance. One in Sal and another in pyspark (or ibis/pandas)
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Are you a workaholic? Here’s how to spot the signs | Ars Technica by Chris Woolston, Knowable Magazine
At the Olympics, AI is watching you | Ars Technica by Morgan Meaker, WIRED.comCrazy to see that now with ai it’s actually possible to survey an entire city either cameras
Use Apache Spark™ from Anywhere: Remote Connectivity with Spark Connect by Databricks
English sdk looks awesome but requires an OpenAI key. Could it be replaced with ollama?
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Let’s Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities - Marc’s Blog by Marc Brooker
Interesting topics to research a bit more on CAP alternatives
Why Your Generative AI Projects Are Failing by Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡
In summary, to have a good AI product we need to have data with quality which requires good data governance. With this data we need to define useful products that we can measure it’s value using data driven metrics. We must also ensure the product has good practices avoiding security or bias issues
Engage your audience by getting to the point, using story structure, and forcing specificity – Ian Daniel Stewart
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Slack Conquers Deployment Fears with Z-score Monitoring - InfoQ by Matt Saunders
This is something I would love to implement. Allowing to define the metrics on which to evaluate a new feature, the expected hypothesis and revert the feature (i.e feature flags) automatically with a report on the experiment
DuckDB + dbt : Accelerating the developer experience with local power - YouTube
Could I replace Athena with this? I think the main blocker for me is I want to work with S3. And need to check how it runs for a really large dataset…
How Unit Tests Really Help Preventing Bugs | Amazing CTO
Good tip. For any project define the metric of code coverage goals and start increasing on the project
Mocking is an Anti-Pattern | Amazing CTO
Building an open data pipeline in 2024 - by Dan Goldin by Dan Goldin
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Spark-Connect: I’m starting to love it! | Sem Sinchenko by Sem Sinchenko
This article wasn’t properly parsed by omnivore but the big takeaways:
- We can add plugins for extended functionality to our spark server
- Using spark connect we can implement any library in any language we want and send grpc requests to the server (spark connect server needs to be running)
- spark connect works on >3.5. Should be much better on v4.0
- If I truly want to be good in spark I eventually need to relearn scala/java
- Glue is cool but it’s still on version 3.3. All these goodies will take too long to be implemented in glue
So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it? by Kozlov, Max
After reading the statistics books I can see much more clear the value of proving a null hypophesis, this is the feeling I am getting out of the academia. We are seeing more research without any any added value. Goodhart’s law.
Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator | by Netflix Technology Blog | Jul, 2024 | Netflix TechBlog by Netflix Technology Blog
Sounds just like an airflow contender. with the plus of being able to run notebooks 🤔
How to Create CI/CD Pipelines for dbt Core | by Paul Fry | Medium by Paul Fry
Simplify PySpark testing with DataFrame equality functions | Databricks Blog by Haejoon Lee, Allison Wang and Amanda Liu
Good theme for a blog post on the changes of spark 4, this is really useful for human errors (been there multiple times)
How to build a Semantic Layer in pieces: step-by-step for busy analytics engineers | dbt Developer Blog by Gwen Windflower
So this will be generated on the fly as views by the semantic layer?, This looked neat until the moment I understood that the semantic layer requires dbt cloud
Meta’s approach to machine learning prediction robustness #### Engineering at Meta by Yijia Liu, Fei Tian, Yi Meng, Habiya Beg, Kun Jiang, Ritu Singh, Wenlin Chen, Peng Sun
Meta seems to be a couple of years ahead of the industry. The article doesn’t provide a lot of insights but gives a feeling of their model evaluation being mostly automated + having a good AI debug tool
Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with! | Labs
First step in a long way before we can get run python wihtout GIL. Interested on seeing if libraries like pandas will be able to leverage multithreading eventually with this
Amazon DataZone introduces OpenLineage-compatible data lineage visualization in preview | AWS Big Data Blog
Mixed feelings here. Great to see Open Lineage implemented at AWS. However it feels again that AWS just created the integration and won’t be driving the development of open lineage
Unlocking Efficiency and Performance: Navigating the Spark 3 and EMR 6 Upgrade Journey at Slack - Slack Engineering by Nilanjana Mukherjee
What could be improved to help this kind of migrations be done in a matter of days?, Livy might be deprecated in favor of spark connect. With their migration to Spark 3 and eventually 3.5 (not clear on this article) they could be interested in moving new jobs to connect , Basically solved issues by using the old behaviours. These will need to be migrated eventually. Would need to better understand these features , This looks like an important detail. With no explicit order spark can have random order of rows?, Cool to see these migrations and teams using open source solutions. EMR although expensive with a good engineering team can prove to be quite cost effective
DuckDB Community Extensions – DuckDB by The DuckDB team
Visual Studio Code June 2024 by Microsoft
The Rise of the Data Platform Engineer - by Pedram Navid by Pedram Navid
The need to define a data platform is something I see everywhere. It really looks like we are missing a piece here. Netflix maestro for example seems like a good contender for to solve the issue of (yet another data custom platform)
Lambda, Kappa, Delta Architectures for Data | The Pipeline by Venkatesh Subramanian
Write-Audit-Publish (WAP) Pattern - by Julien Hurault by Julien Hurault
This articles brings me the question. Can we improve dbt by using WAP? How does the rollback mechanism work when a process fails?
AWS Batch Introduces Multi-Container Jobs for Large-Scale Simulations - InfoQ by Renato Losio
Data Council 2024: The future data stack is composable, and other hot takes | by Chase Roberts | Vertex Ventures US | Apr, 2024 | Medium by Chase Roberts
Amazon DataZone now integrates with AWS Glue Data Quality and external data quality solutions | AWS Big Data Blog
Super interesting to see how we can enable data quality visibility
Pyspark 2023: New Features and Performance Improvement | Databricks Blog by in Industries
Cost Optimization Strategies for scalable Data Lakehouse by Suresh Hasundi
Good to use open data lakes showing the big cost and speed improvements
Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing
Flink SQL and the Joy of JARs by ByRobin MoffattShare this post
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Why is this so hard? 😭