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11 Dec 2023

Marina Lyan 4 min read

Photo by fabio on Unsplash PayPal supports over 400 million active consumers and merchants worldwide. Every minute there are several thousand payment transactions. To prevent fraud in real-time at such a scale, we need to streamline our ML workflow and feature engineering processes to build strong predictors of behaviors and risk indicators. On top of that, it must be done…

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20 Dec 2016

lukaseder 1 min read

Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective. This includes people who work with SQL, Java, Open Source, and a variety of other related topics. I’m very excited to … Continue reading jOOQ Tuesdays:…

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14 Dec 2016

lukaseder 1 min read

Recently, at Devoxx, I’ve seen this beautiful slide in a talk by Kevlin Henney In his talk, he was displaying a variety of approaches to solve the FizzBuzz “problem”, including a couple of very elegant solutions in completely declarative approaches and languages. In this particular slide, Kevlin used a notation that is derived from maths. … Continue reading SQL, Streams,…

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17 Mar 2016

lukaseder 1 min read

Too many programmers think SQL is a bit of a beast. It is one of the few declarative languages out there, and as such, behaves in an entirely different way from imperative, object-oriented, or even functional languages (although, some say that SQL is also somewhat functional). As a SQL trainer (do visit our training, it’s … Continue reading 10 Easy…

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