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Web Scraping Finds Price Fluctuation
This is the last post ending a series of articles that have traced the prices of some of the top gifts, gadgets, and gizmos from Black Friday 2015 through to
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Cloud Spanner now with a free trial
Create a 90-day Spanner free trial instance with 10GB storage at no cost. Try Spanner free.
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How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights
By Ben Sykes
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives.
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Using the expand and contract pattern for schema changes
In this article, we introduce the expand and contract pattern to help migrate data and clients to a new schema.
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Object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best computer vision models
When computer vision detectors are turned loose in the real world, their performance noticeably drops. In an effort to close this performance gap, a team of MIT and IBM researchers set out to create a very different kind of object-recognition dataset called ObjectNet.
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Macie: Automatically Discover, Classify, and Secure Content at Scale
This blog is out of date. Please refer here for the updated info. When Jeff and I heard about this service, we both were curious on the meaning of the name Macie. Of course, Jeff being a great researcher looked up the name Macie and found that the name Macie has two meanings. It has […]
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SQLite 3.39.3
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Migrating Messenger storage to optimize performance
More than a billion people now use Facebook Messenger to instantly share text, photos, video, and more. As we have evolved the product and added new functionality, the underlying technologies that …
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BERTopic: The Future of Topic Modeling
BERTopic takes advantage of the superior language capabilities of (not yet sentient) transformer models and uses some other ML magic like UMAP and HDBSCAN to produce what is one of the most advanced techniques in language topic modeling today.
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Continuous MySQL backup validation: Restoring backups
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Product Quantization: Compressing high-dimensional vectors
Product quantization (PQ) is a popular method for dramatically compressing high-dimensional vectors to use 97% less memory, and for making nearest-neighbor search speeds 5.5x faster in our tests.
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Using Graph Databases to Stop E-commerce Fraud in Real Time
Discover how to detect and deter e-commerce fraud – before fraudsters inflict significant damage – when you harness the power of graph database technology.
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Ember and D3: Building responsive analytics
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries
A comprehensive look at the design of Polar, and how we enabled it to operate over distributed data.
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Streaming Messages from Kafka into Redshift in Near Real-Time
Streaming Messages from Kafka into Redshift in near Real-Time Shahid C., Software Engineer Oct 17, 2016 This post is part of a series covering Yelp's real-time streaming data infrastructure. Our...
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The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases
During the summers of my high school years in suburban Georgia, my friend and I would fill the time by randomly walking into local establishments asking for odd jobs. It was a great way as a studen…
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Pyleus: An Open-source Framework for Building Storm Topologies in Pure Python
Introducing Pyleus: An Open-source Framework for Building Storm Topologies in Pure Python Patrick L., Software Engineer Oct 15, 2014 Yelp loves Python, and we use it at scale to power...
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