Imho, the reason for it is that now we have much more sources of information.
How tos were a concentrated pieces of information distributed with Linux distributions or via slow mediums…
20+ years ago I was involved 8th Russian translation of many how to’s and they were used because there were no other sources of information, but now you can just translate almost any page to language that you need
My official study was in the area of uranium enrichment. The situation in Soviet Union was always following - mostly Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan mined the raw uranium and did first enrichment pass (I grew up in one of that areas), and then final enrichment was done in Russia. I’m not involved into that anymore for more than 20 years, but I doubt that situation has changed significantly as it requires significant capital investment, plus know-how…
At least author title and cover is kept - I’ve sent few books few days ago. There was a period when it didn’t handle them well when sent via email, but they fixed it few months ago
I downloaded send to kindle this weekend trying to upload file bigger than 25mb tgat I can’t send by gmail. It didn’t accept ePub. I ended by using calibre to send it as email
I met customers who put anything under that umbrella. And they want to use PaaS/SaaS products - like, you need to encrypt table names, or some unrelated data… Some companies just use that to protect their …
I’m using 10 years MacBook (not retina) as home computer - it has 16gb memory and 2tb ssd. And works quite good for web browsing, writing documents, even for some development (like patching Spark Redis connector, although it’s usually augmented by separate Linux desktop). Maybe I’ll upgrade at some point, but it’s still good for many tasks. The only problem is Mac OS version :-(
I can’t say that’s accurate. For my area it shows that Kassel is 3 hours away, although direct train goes in less than an hour, and even with intermediate stop, it’s slightly more than an hour. South of Germany isn’t connected at all, although I can get to Ingolstadt in less that 5 hours…
I also heavily used callgrind/cachegrind to tune critical paths in our high performance web proxy, we’re each micro/milliseconds counts… For example, in media type detection that is called multiple times per request (minimum twice for request/response), etc.
Twitter may not be representative imho because of the short text. It should first come to a problem of reliable language detection, and Twitter is quite often wrong there
That's great stuff! We have exporter functionality in the Databricks Terraform provider [1] and a lot of customers started to use Terraform for existing Databricks resources because they don't need to re-implement everything manually - just point to workspace, and wait few minutes.
DB is nightmare. I had so many cases of missing trains when they had 1 hour delay on 1.5h track, connecting trains no waiting even for 5 minutes, cancelling train in last minute, etc.
Maybe for threat intel it wasn't very useful, but when I worked at McAfee 6-7 years ago, I've heavily used Twitter as a source of new sites for URL categorization (content-wise) - it was very useful to get trending stuff, etc., and proactively put classification into URL database
For short intro I would point to “Learning Spark, 2ed” - it was available for free from Databricks site (maybe still available, look via Google) - it gives intro into the Spark and Delta Lake. The “Data Analysis with Python and PySpark” is a bit deeper, but doesn’t cover Delta.
No. Azure Databricks is a first class service - officially its a Microsoft product. With all UIs, diagnostic logging, encryption, consolidated billing, etc.
Databricks includes pure SQL implementations - Databricks SQL, for example. Or for example, Delta Live Tables allow to write you pipelines using only SQL…
There are a lot of optimizations in query engines as well - results cache, local caches of files stored in cloud, data layout optimization and skipping (to avoid reading not necessary files), etc.