Towards Data Science

I Tried to Schedule My ETL Pipeline. Here’s What I Didn’t Expect.

What I thought was a scheduling problem turned out to be a portability problem first The post I Tried to Schedule My ETL Pipeline. Here’s What I Didn’t Expect.

Towards Data Science
Aug 19

How to Scale an Integration Pipeline Without Breaking Correctness

The article describes a real‑world case of scaling an enterprise integration pipeline from 500 to 8,000 events per second. It emphasizes that during this throughput increase, two correctness guarantees were strictly maintained and never compromised. The post illustrates how to achieve high performance while preserving essential data integrity constraints.

By Yuelin Ou
Towards Data Science
Sep 24

When the Correct Answer Is Nothing, What Does Your Pipeline Return?

The article discusses how the reliability mechanisms added to large language model (LLM) pipelines can lead to confident but incorrect outputs, especially when the correct answer is absent. It examines the behavior of pipelines in such scenarios and highlights the paradox where safeguards intended to improve accuracy may actually reinforce errors. The piece underscores the importance of understanding pipeline responses when faced with missing or ambiguous information.

By Hubert García Gordon
Simon Willison
Aug 25

EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!

EVE Online is beginning its transition to Python 3, a move that will involve using the futurize script on 2.4 million lines of code and a manual review of about 20,000 differences between Python 2 and Python 3. The company has historically run on Stackless Python since 2003, with the last major upgrade in 2010 to Stackless Python 2.7. While the announcement does not detail how Stackless will be replaced, the team previously showcased a shift away from Stackless in their Carbon engine for EVE Frontier, leveraging the open‑source carbonengine/scheduler library.

Towards Data Science
Aug 25

I Deployed My Data Pipeline to AWS. Then Everything That Was “Local” Broke.

The article recounts the author's experience of moving a Dockerized data pipeline from a local laptop to AWS, highlighting the challenges that arose when the environment changed. It explores lessons learned about container behavior, networking intricacies, and hidden assumptions that were previously taken for granted in a local setup. The post serves as a practical guide for developers facing similar transitions to cloud infrastructure.

By Ibrahim Salami