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The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008, but better than 2002

The Pragmatic Engineer

In what might be helpful, Chris started his career as a software engineer in the middle of the big downturn back in 2002 – known as the Dotcom Bust – and worked through the financial crisis in 2008. Here’s his take: 'This 2023 downturn now is far worse than 2008 but not nearly as bad as 2002, which felt apocalyptic.

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Cloudera was started in 2008, and HortonWorks started in 2011. Apache Pig in 2008 came too, but it didn’t ever see as much adoption. Apache Pig in 2008 came too, but it didn’t ever see as much adoption. Apache HBase came in 2007, and Apache Cassandra came in 2008. DJ Patil coined the term Data Scientist in 2008.

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Regulation: Hurdle or Driver for Data Analytics in Financial Services

Teradata

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, service providers have been subject to increasing rules & requirements. To what extent has this climate held back advances in data analytics?

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Big Tech job-switching stats

The Pragmatic Engineer

The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008. Observations from the Pragmatic Engineer Talent Collective. Software engineers with experience that used to be rare to see as available to hire are now on the market. More “traditional” companies going against the tide of cuts.

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Happy Leap Day!

The Pragmatic Engineer

” In 2008, Zune (Microsoft’s 30GB music player) stopped working on 31 December because of a leap year bug, which sent devices into an infinite loop. Without the computers to regulate temperatures inside the pot cells, five cells overheated and were damaged beyond repair.

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Data Council 2023

Christophe Blefari

He coined the "data scientist" term back in 2008. Writing unit test for data science — Pragmatic guide about unit tests. Retro on data science by DJ Patil — DJ Patil has been US Chief Data Scientist. He does a great retro.

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Top 18 Famous Ethical Hackers: The World Has Ever Known

Knowledge Hut

The company became a member of the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance in 2008. Dan Kaminsky Dan Kaminsky is a well-known security researcher who rose to prominence in 2008. Hoglund has patented fault injection methods utilised in software testing, making him a significant white hat asset.