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Automating Twilio Recording Exports for Quality Purposes: Python Implementation Guidelines

DZone

Twilio is a call management system that provides excellent call recording capabilities, but often organizations are in need of automatically downloading and storing these recordings locally or in their preferred cloud storage. However, downloading large numbers of recordings from Twilio can be challenging.

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Data Storage Formats for Big Data Analytics: Performance and Cost Implications of Parquet, Avro, and ORC

DZone

One key factor that significantly affects the performance of data processing is the storage format of the data. This article explores the impact of different storage formats, specifically Parquet, Avro, and ORC on query performance and costs in big data environments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Block Size and Its Impact on Storage Performance

DZone

This article analyzes the correlation between block sizes and their impact on storage performance. This paper deals with definitions and understanding of structured data vs unstructured data, how various storage segments react to block size changes, and differences between I/O-driven and throughput-driven workloads.

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Article: Design Pattern Proposal for Autoscaling Stateful Systems

InfoQ

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator.

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Article: Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

InfoQ

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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Efficient Multimodal Data Processing: A Technical Deep Dive

DZone

In this article, I will walk through a comprehensive end-to-end architecture for efficient multimodal data processing while striking a balance in scalability, latency, and accuracy by leveraging GPU-accelerated pipelines, advanced neural networks , and hybrid storage platforms.