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How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes

All Things Distributed

The team is constantly looking for ways to get more accurate data, faster. That's why, in 2019, they had an idea: Build a data lake that can support one of the largest logistics networks on the planet. It would later become known internally as the Galaxy data lake.

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Uber’s Data Platform in 2019: Transforming Information to Intelligence

Uber Engineering

Uber’s busy 2019 included our billionth delivery of an Uber Eats order, 24 million miles covered by bike and scooter riders on our platform, and trips to top destinations such as the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, and the … The post Uber’s Data Platform in 2019: Transforming Information to Intelligence appeared first on Uber Engineering (..)

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Where programming languages are headed in 2020

O'Reilly

” Despite the slow rate of adoption, Java’s six-month release cadence has been trucking along—Java 12 dropped in March 2019, with Java 13 following in September. 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. Or do people just not know about the benefits of 11 in containers?”

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The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. The first platform is a real time, big data platform being used for analyzing traffic usage patterns to identify congestion and connectivity issues. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. The United Kingdom is ranked 34th out of 207 countries for broadband speed, but in July 2019 there was still a school in the UK without broadband. It accounts for 1.42% of global traffic as of June 2019, according to caniuse.com. Chris Ashton.

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