Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"

Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them.This week, I have finished reading the first book - “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout and shared all of the 21 chapter summaries in the channel. In this post, I will share what are the 3 ideas...
Show HN: Apache Cloudberry – Open-source Massively Parallel Processing database

Apache Cloudberry (Incubating)
Apache Cloudberry (Incubating), created by the original developers of Greenplum Database, is one advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database, which evolves from the open-source version of the Pivotal Greenplum Database®️ but features a newer PostgreSQL kernel and more advanced enterprise capabilities. It can serve as a data warehouse and can also be used for large-scale analytics and AI/ML workloads. You can...
Introducing S2

Elevate the beating heart of data systems. Our team has worked a lot on reliable real-time ingest, where The Log is foundational. We loved the serverless experience of object storage, but it simply did not exist for streaming data. We believe the humble log – the stream – deserves to be a cloud storage primitive. With S2, we are previewing just that: S2...
Pragmatic Category Theory | Part 3: Associativity

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Queues in Apache Kafka®: Enhancing Message Processing and Scalability

In the world of data processing and messaging systems, terms like "queue" and "streaming" often pop up. While they might sound similar, they serve different purposes, and can significantly impact how your system handles data. Let’s break down the differences in a straightforward way.What are message queues?Imagine a coffee shop where customers place orders either online or in person. Once...
A Replacement for BERT

Finally, a Replacement for BERT TL;DR This blog post introduces ModernBERT, a family of state-of-the-art encoder-only models representing improvements over older generation encoders across the board, with a 8192 sequence length, better downstream performance and much faster processing. ModernBERT is available as a slot-in replacement for any BERT-like models, with both a base (139M params) and large (395M params) model size. ModernBERT will...

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Introduction to big data presentation

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on August 8, 2014

I presented big data to Amdocs’ product group last week. One of the sessions I did was recorded so I might be able to add…

Is there a future for Map/Reduce?

Is there a future for Map/Reduce?

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on June 3, 2014

Google’s Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat filed the patent request and published the map/reduce paper 10 year ago (2004). According to WikiPedia Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella created Hadoop,…

Hadoop YARN overview

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 27, 2014

I did a short overview of Hadoop YARN to our big data development team. The presentation covers the motivation for YARN, how it works and…

Services, Microservices, Nanoservices – oh my!

Services, Microservices, Nanoservices – oh my!

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on March 25, 2014

Apparently, there’s this new distributed architecture thing called microservices out and about – so last week, I went ahead and read Martin Fowler’s & James…

and with YARN the game changes

and with YARN the game changes

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on October 17, 2013

I’ve been working with Hadoop for a few years now and the platform and ecosystems has been advancing at an amazing pace with new features…