Naveed Ahmad

Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game

Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Mohamed Salah have spent the past two decades defining one of soccer’s greatest eras. Now, as the 2026 FIFA World Cup marks Ronaldo’s final appearance at the tournament and another defining moment in the careers of Messi and Salah, they’re also preparing for life beyond the pitch. Before Messi’s Argentina…

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Netflix AI Team Cuts Wide-Partition Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds by Splitting Cassandra Partitions Per ID

Netflix’s engineering team published a method for handling wide partitions in Apache Cassandra. The research work targets Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a platform for temporal event data. TL;DR Dynamic partitioning splits wide Cassandra partitions per TimeSeries ID, asynchronously and transparently, with no application changes. Detection runs on the read path via byte counting and a Kafka…

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Protesters continue to target Doug Ford with rally outside premier’s Etobicoke office

Personal support workers with the Canadian Union of Public Employees gathered in Etobicoke on Wednesday to rally outside Premier Doug Ford’s office as unions continue to direct their anger at the Progressive Conservative leader. At the latest rally, attendees said they were worried about Ontario’s new regulatory body for personal support workers, fearing it could…

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Djokovic sets up Sinner blockbuster

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates beating Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime at Wimbledon. Photo: AFP LONDON: Novak Djokovic battled through Wimbledon’s longest ever quarter-final to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in a five-set epic on Tuesday as the former champion set up a titanic clash with defending champion Jannik Sinner. Djokovic defied a calf injury suffered in the first set to win 7-6…

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