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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