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Aria Presto: Making table scan more efficient

The Aria is a set of initiatives to dramatically increase PrestoDB efficiency. Our goal is to achieve a 2-3x decrease in CPU time for Hive queries against tables stored in ORC format. For Aria, We are pursuing improvements in three areas: table scan, repartitioning (exchange, shuffle), and hash join.

Building Lyft’s Marketing Automation Platform

We take pride in our mission to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. More than 50 million carbon neutral Lyft rides happen every month across the US and Canada—and we’ve barely scratched the surface in the potential for rideshare. Part of our growth is improvements in our acquisition process—like launching region-specific ad campaigns that increase awareness, and consideration of our multi-modal offerings.

Secure Control of Egress Traffic in Istio, part 1

This is part 1 in a new series about secure control of egress traffic in Istio that I am going to publish. In this installment, I explain why you should apply egress traffic control to your cluster, the attacks involving egress traffic you want to prevent, and the requirements for your system to do so. Once you agree that you should control the egress traffic coming from your cluster, the following questions arise: What requirements does a system have for secure control of egress traffic?

Name Resolution Issue In CoreDNS: Inside The Mind Of A Problem Solver

Facebook has found a place to park its $40bn+ cash reserves

How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today

AWS Control Tower – Set up & Govern a Multi-Account AWS Environment

GitLab 12.0 released with Visual Reviews and Dependency List

GitLab 12.0 marks a key step in our journey to create an inclusive approach to DevSecOps, empowering ‘everyone to contribute’. For the past year, we’ve been on an amazing journey, collaborating and creating a solution that brings teams together. There have been thousands of community contributions making GitLab more lovable.

AWS Security Hub Now Generally Available

I’m a developer, or at least that’s what I tell myself while coming to terms with being a manager. I’m definitely not an infosec expert. I’ve been paged more than once in my career because something I wrote or configured caused a security concern.

AQR’s Problem With Machine Learning: Cats Morph Into Dogs

Machine learning has done magic, such as beating human chess champions. But in finance, expectations for the technology may need to come down a notch or two, according to quantitative firm AQR. Machine learning changes the way problems are solved.