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Cloud Spanner Adds Support for Liquibase
Google Cloud has recently added support for Liquibase on Cloud Spanner. The new extension allows developers to use the open-source database library to manage and automate schema changes for the globally distributed SQL database on Google Cloud.
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Netflix Embraces GraphQL Microservices for Rapid Application Development
Netflix engineering recently published a blog post detailing how Netflix embraced GraphQL microservices for rapid application development. In this post, Dane Avilla, a senior software engineer at Netflix, describes their key learnings in the process and how GraphQL lends itself well for proof-of-concept development.
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Designing for Failure in the BBC's Analytics Platform
Last week at InfoQ Live, Blanca Garcia-Gil, principal systems engineer at BBC, gave a session on Evolving Analytics in the Data Platform. During this session, Garcia-Gil focused on how her team prepared and designed for two types of failure - "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns."
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Google Brings Databricks to Its Cloud Platform
Recently Google announced a partnership with Databricks to bring their fully-managed Apache Spark offering and data lake capabilities to Google Cloud. The offering will become available as Databricks on Google Cloud.
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GraalVM inside Oracle Database
Oracle has added support for GraalVM-based stored procedures that run inside the database. The capability supports JavaScript functions through the Multilingual Engine (MLE) focused on the APEX framework. This removes unnecessary data transfer over the network and can significantly improve performance.
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Better SEO with Structured Data and Rich Snippets
Martin Splitt, search developer advocate for Google, recently explained at the Chrome Developer Summit 2020 how to use structured data to make a website eligible for rich results in Google Search. Rich results support semantic searches, stand out from ordinary search results, and may increase the click-through rate.
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PayPal Standardizes on Apache Airflow and Apache Gobblin for Its Next-Gen Data Movement Platform
PayPal recently described how it standardized on Apache Airflow and Apache Gobblin for implementing its next-gen data movement platform. In a recent blog post, PayPal engineers detail how the existing data movement platform evolved into many tools & platforms in a complex and unmanageable ecosystem and their shift towards a new implementation.
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Pinterest Describes an Architecture for Efficient Retrieval of Hierarchical Documents
In a recent blog post, Pinterest engineers describe how they implemented an efficient two-stage retrieval architecture to retrieve hierarchical documents in a home-grown search engine. They accomplished it by combining index flattening, index normalization, and index denormalization.
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AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational Database built for the Cloud, now supports major version 12 of PostgreSQL.
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Using Language and Developer Friendly Data Structures with Couchbase
Couchbase APIs have evolved to provide programming language friendly data structures making it easier for programmers to incorporate into the respective programs. Some examples highlight how to use data structures with the Couchbase Python SDK.
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AWS Introduces HealthLake and Redshift ML in Preview
AWS introduced preview releases of Amazon HealthLake service and a feature for Amazon Redshift called Redshift ML during re:Invent 2020 in December. Amazon HealthLake is a data lake service that helps healthcare, health insurance, and pharmaceutical companies to derive value out of their data with the help of NLP. Redshift ML is a service that provides a gateway into SageMaker to Redshift users.
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K8ssandra: Production-Ready Platform for Running Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes
DataStax recently released K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes. K8ssandra aims to provide a “production-ready platform”, and this includes automation for operational tasks such as repairs, backups, and monitoring.
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PASS to Cease Operations on January 15
PASS, formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server, will cease operations on January 15. The non-profit organization, which was known primarily for its conferences, is unable to meet its financial obligations.
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Analyzing Large Amounts of Feedback to Learn from Users
Making it easy for users to give feedback and automating the collection of feedback helps to get more feedback faster. Using artificial intelligence, you can analyze large amounts of feedback to get insights and visualize trends. Sharing this information widely supports taking action to enhance your product and solve issues that users are having.
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The Benefits of Nostalgia: Q&A with Linda Rising
Remembering the past can bring about benefits; nostalgic reflection can make us more optimistic. Looking back leads us to feel there is meaning and purpose in our lives which enables us to better navigate the future and help us move forward.
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