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Databricks was founded on the principle of being open from day one. Databricks engineers are the original creators of some of the world’s most popular open-source data technologies and pioneers of the Lakehouse, offering a leading solution available across the three major hyperscalers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Most importantly, all foundational technologies of Databricks—like Spark,…
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I recently read this amazing book, Rewired, by McKinsey experts. It’s like a cookbook for digital transformation, filled with practical templates and frameworks that were once only accessible to billion-dollar companies with the budget for expensive consulting contracts. Now, anyone with the book can have these resources at their disposal. So, here are my takeaways…
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Put simply, observability is the ability to infer the internal states of a system based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Observability is foundational to site reliability engineering. It’s a concept derived from control theory, particularly relevant to distributed systems due to the challenges in maintaining a cohesive whole. Observability…
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Like many other developers, I’ve felt the impact of Microsoft’s decision to retire Azure Media Services as they shift focus to ‘secular’ growth areas—a change that directly affects my martial arts SaaS solution, http://www.jitzs.com, which relied heavily on this service. As I’ve been redesigning Jitzs to fully deliver our video intelligence capabilities using open-source technologies,…