Are You a Stable or Volatile?

I've written before on this blog about the different personality traits of software engineers, and how different traits balance each other on a team.Some of the spectra I came up with were:Dreamers ↔ PragmatistsBig Picture ↔ Detail-OrientedMove Fast & Break Things ↔ Slow & MethodicalOptimists ↔ PessimistsAnswerers ↔ QuestionersRecently I read a comment on Hacker News (which I can't find...
Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response

In June, Meta released an article titled Leveraging AI for efficient incident response on their engineering blog. In this article, engineers outline how they leveraged large language models to improve Meta's incident response capabilities. The headline metric from this report: Meta was able to use LLMs to successfully root cause incidents with 42% accuracy in their web monorepo. This means...
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

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Offset Considered Harmful or: The Surprising Complexity of Pagination in SQL

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Building SQL-based Observability With ClickHouse and Grafana

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The Root Cause of Why Organizations Fail With Data & AI

Wave by CLEANPNGDEMYSTIFY DATA STRATEGYA guide to be successful with the strategic groundwork requiredBusiness value through Data and Artificial Intelligence. Everybody talks about it, yet most companies are struggling to monetize their data. I claim that in most cases, this is due to a lack of effective business strategy. This article shows what strategic groundwork is necessary to activate your company’s data assets.This...

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Intro to Apache Spark (slides)

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on December 16, 2020

I gave a general overview of Apache Spark to our R&D teams. You can find the slides below

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,…