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The Presto/Trino project makes distributed querying easier across a variety of data sources. As the need for machine learning and other high volume data applications has increased, the need for support, tooling, and cloud infrastructure for Presto/Trino has increased with it. Starburst helps your teams run fast queries on any data source. With Starburst you get a single point of access to your dat...

Building and managing data-intensive applications has traditionally been costly and complex, and has placed an operational burden on developers to maintain as their organization scales. Todays’ developers, data scientists, and data engineers need a streamlined, single cloud data platform for building applications, pipelines, and machine learning models — without having to move or copy their data....

Companies are rapidly moving to the cloud, and modern businesses are operating faster with a myriad of SaaS tools in their day-to-day operations. Provisioning resources has been easier than ever. WIth a few clicks you can spin up resources in any part of the world. While we all love the cloud because of the scalability it offers, assets can quickly pile up with every user, bucket, repository and r...

Mikko Hypponen is the CRO of WithSecure and a principal research Officer at F-Secure. In this interview with our host, Jordi Monn, he discusses the eventful and rocky early start of his software engineering career, hybrid warfare, reverse engineering, recent exploits like Log for Shell and heart bleed and more. This episode is packed with valuable career and life lessons on dealing with the unexpe...

React is the most widely used front-end framework. It pioneered the component model and influenced the software design of all modern web applications. React is not an opinionated tool, allowing engineers to shape their applications in a way that fits the problems at hand. However, this freedom of expression can be very confusing to newcomers. Alex Kondov is a principal engineer who has worked with...

Observability is a critical aspect of modern digital applications. You can't operate an application at scale that satisfies your customer needs without understanding how the application is currently performing, whether it's understanding the current operating needs of the application, adjusting resource usage, detecting issues before they become serious or solving an ongoing technical issue as it'...

The classical computing power has doubled every two years - a pattern known as Moore’s law. However, the ability to fabricate more and more transistors in a computer chip is approaching saturation as we are approaching atomic dimensions. Quantum Computing is a promising technology to take us beyond this. A quantum Computer uses qubits to run multi-dimensional quantum algorithms. Quantum Computers...

The Java Virtual Machine is an abstract machine that makes it possible for you to write Java code once and run it across multiple devices and operating system types. While you can use the OpenJDK it comes with various issues like Security Vulnerabilities and compliance. Azul is a company that specializes in Java for the enterprise. It has the largest Java engineering team after Oracle. John Ceccar...

Passwordless Authentication is a technique in which users are given access to an environment without entering a password or answering a security question. This allows users to access an environment securely and protects organizations against attack vectors like Keylogging, Brute force methods, and phishing. The company SuperTokens provides secure login and session management for your apps in an op...

Monolithic relational databases are the traditional foundation of financial core ledger systems. Nevertheless, the process of building and operating mission-critical ledgers to track and reconcile payments and money movement is complex.  Twisp is rethinking core accounting and financial orchestration on a cloud-native ledger system, so developers can stop re-invented the ledger and focus on buildi...

PostgreSQL is a free and open-source relational database management system. Postgres-based databases are widespread and are used by a variety of organizations, from Reddit to the International Space Station, and Postgres databases are a common offering from cloud providers such as AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Heroku. Neon is a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres. It separates stor...

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The default configuration in most databases is meant for broad compatibility rather than performance. Database tuning is a process in which the configurations of a database are modified to achieve optimal performance. Databases have hundreds of configuration knobs that control various factors, such as the amount of memory to use for caches or how often the data is written to the storage. The probl...

Cloud computing provides tools, storage, servers, and software products through the internet. Securing these resources is a constant process for companies deploying new code to their cloud environments. It’s easy to overlook security flaws because company applications are very complex and many people work together to develop them. Wyze Labs, for example, had millions of users’ data stolen due to a...

Originally published on January 1, 2022. Charlie Gerard is an incredibly productive developer. In addition to being the author of Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript, her website charliegerard.dev has a long list of really interesting side projects exploring the intersection of human computer interaction, computer vision, interactivity, and art. In this episode we touch on some of these proje...

Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code. Andy Johns is our guest in this episode. Andy previously worked on growth at Facebook, Twitter, and Quora as an early employee. He’s also an investor in Robinhood, Webflow, and Reforge. Andy joins the show to discuss Mental health in...

Data analytics technology and tools have seen significant improvements in the past decade. But, it can still take weeks to prototype, build and deploy new transformations and deployments, usually requiring considerable engineering resources. Plus, most data isn't real-time. Instead, most of it is still batch-processed. Tinybird Analytics provides an easy way to ingest and query large amounts of da...

Application security is usually done with a set of tools and services known as SIEM - Security Information and Event Management. SIEM tools usually try to provide visibility into an organization’s security systems, as well as event log management and security event notifications.  The company Panther takes traditional SIEM security a step further. Panther processes and retains all of your security...

Maintaining availability in a modern digital application is critical to keeping your application operating and available and to keep meeting your customers growing demands. There are many observability platforms out there and certainly Prometheus is a popular open source solution for cloud native companies yet operating an observability platform, costs money, and all of the platforms are highly da...

As software engineering teams start to build products that become more and more mature. It becomes necessary to be able to debug complex issues with tooling that enables understanding of the full scenario. This can come from application scenarios where APIs are running multiple versions, where users are using your app from multiple devices, device types, OS versions, browser versions, things like...

Web infrastructure has evolved from individual servers to shared hosting services to virtual machines and virtual functions. The future of the internet however is looking toward a much more distributed computation model blockchain technology is central to the future of this modern internet of blockchains are still in their infancy and the most people blockchains are intimately tied to crypto curre...

Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast-growing web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly. As an application scales, it becomes significantly mo...

Data is becoming a bank’s biggest asset. These complex enterprises have a huge opportunity ahead - to transform themselves to become a trusted hub of a much broader data ecosystem that goes beyond the financial industry and helps to form a new class of cross-industry experience architectures that are scalable and transparent. The data physics that is needed for such emerging systems runs on consen...

Enabling authorization policies across disparate cloud-native environments such as containers, microservices and modern application delivery infrastructure is complex and can be a roadblock for software engineering teams. Open Policy Agent, or OPA, is an open, declarative, policy-as-code approach to authorization that reduces security and compliance burden for engineering teams. Business context i...