Tag Archives: Reliability

Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable

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Databricks, the company founded by the original developers of the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has open-sourced Delta Lake, a storage layer that makes it easier to ensure data integrity as new data flows into an enterprise’s data lake by bringing ACID transactions to these vast data repositories. Delta Lake, […] Continue reading Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable→

Not just for Processing: How Kafka Streams as a Distributed Database Boosted our Reliability and Reduced Maintenance

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The Apache Kafka Streams library is used by enterprises around the world to perform distributed stream processing on top of Apache Kafka. One aspect of this framework that is less talked about is its ability to store local state, derived from stream pr… Continue reading Not just for Processing: How Kafka Streams as a Distributed Database Boosted our Reliability and Reduced Maintenance→

The Thrill of Building Space Hardware to Exceptionally High Standards

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It’s fair to say that the majority of Hackaday readers have not built any hardware that’s slipped the surly bonds of Earth and ventured out into space proper. Sure we might see the occasional high altitude balloon go up under the control of some particularly enterprising hackers, but that’s still a far cry from a window seat on the International Space Station. Granted the rapid commercialization of space has certainly added to that exclusive group of space engineers over the last decade or so, but something tells us it’s still going to be quite some time before we’re running space-themed …read more

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