The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I was still recovering from this failure in 2015, when a friend who designed the first version of Uber– Jelle Prins – pinged me, and said Uber was kickstarting an engineering office in Amsterdam. In 2015 when I joined, we had 6 engineers in the Amsterdam office. My time at Uber was hypergrowth as its finest.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Reviews from ProjectPro Online Hadoop Training Class of Mar 1 2015 To understand what happens in these sessions, let’s take a look at what happened at ProjectPro’s Online Hadoop Training Class of Mar 1 2014. “I like the session today.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 22, 2023

Google Domains was a breath of fresh air when launched in 2015. Data source: Domain Name Stat Google Domains was in beta from 2015 to 2022, which is Google’s way of marking in-development services not yet ready for “prime time” due to potential bugs. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 21, 2024

OpenAI itself was founded in 2015 and at the company’s core today is still a research lab with the  goal  of creating a safe and aligned artificial general intelligence (AGI.) It’s broadly chartered with safely bringing OpenAI's research to the world.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

billion in 2010 to $17 billion in 2015 with estimates that the Big Data Analytics services market is growing 6 times faster than the entire IT sector. IDC estimates that cloud based big data analytics is expected to grow 3 times faster than the on-premise solutions in 2015.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

AWS launched in 2006, Azure in 2010, and GCP launched its first region in 2015. The Cloud is spreading and offering more capabilities. Since around 2010, there’s been a boom in Cloud computing. Low-latency networking is cheaper and more common.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

We have created this list of “10 Hadoop articles from 2015 Everyone Must Read” - by choosing articles that contain up-to-date information and are in line with big data trends. Disclaimer : The 10 hadoop-related articles from 2015 listed below are not ranked in order of importance or quality.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 12, 2023

Pollen was an events tech startup founded in 2015, which raised more than $200M in funding and employed about 600 people by 2022. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you also missed this week’s deep-dive on Becoming a Fractional CTO. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

Source: Dealroom In 2022, Angel rounds were at the lowest by cumulative value since 2015, which is even worse than we’ve seen in the US. I turned to Dealroom for a sense of the funding round there. Here’s how Angel rounds in Europe are doing: Angel investments in Europe. Seed investments in Europe.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Recommended Reading: Data Engineer vs. Data Scientist- The Differences You Must Know As per the report by DICE in 2020, Data Engineer emerged as the fastest-growing job in 2015, with a growth rate of 50% year-on-year (image below). Yes, Data engineering is one of the hottest careers right now. How can I start a career in data engineering?

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Going into 2015, the app’s success would trigger what we refer to as a feature explosion. 2015: An architectural inflection point By 2015, Meta had doubled down on its “Mobile First” mantra , and the FBiOS codebase saw a meteoric rise in the number of daily contributors. And that presented its own set of unique challenges.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Tensorflow, based on Theano is Google’s brainchild born in 2015 while PyTorch, is a close cousin of Lua-based Torch framework born out of Facebook’s AI research lab in 2017. You can read about the development of Tensorflow in the paper “TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems.”

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Netflix Tech

MAY 21, 2025

We also thank our partner teams for getting this up and running in production. References [1] Amatriain, X., & Basilico, J. Recommender systems in industry: A netflix case study. In Recommender systems handbook (pp. Springer. [2] 2] Gomez-Uribe, C. A., & Hunt, N. The netflix recommender system: Algorithms, business value, and innovation.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 29, 2023

Google Domains grew to be something like the 4th largest registrar in the world, with much higher margins, and yet we’re the ones still committed to this work and our customers for the long run.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Professionals aspiring to earn high-paid big data jobs must have a look at these top 6 big data companies to work for in 2015: 1) InsightSquared, Cambridge, MA InsightSquared a big data analytics company experiencing triple digit annual growth in revenues, employees and customers.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I joined in 2015, when there were a couple hundred engineers at Uber, and the infra team was made up of about 50 people. ” It was a pitch that was hard to say no to! Rob was right that Uber would be crazy. It was at Uber where we ended up building M3 : Uber’s open source, large-scale metrics platform.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 20, 2023

I started an accelerator with my friend at Highland Capital in 2015. Raising funding How did you get the funding, and how much was it? I feel that I got lucky raising the first round of funding: it was surprisingly smooth. So I did: in the summer of 2018, I took leave from Carnegie Mellon, where I was a professor by then.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 9, 2023

In 2015, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a rule which mandates publicly traded US companies to disclose their compensation details. We cover two out of seven topics from today’s subscriber-only deep-dive on Compensation at publicly traded tech companies. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 25, 2023

Both Llama2-7b-chat and Code Llama-7b-instruct get it wrong in a silly way—it’s impossible for a row in the concert table to have both year = 2014 and year = 2015 at the same time, so their proposed queries will incorrectly produce no results. This query is more difficult because there are many ways to get it wrong.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

6 th May, 2015, Yahoo News - IBM announces partnership with Facebook. 7 th May 2015, InformationWeek - Cuba turns to big data analytics for improving tourism. 2015 will witness various phases of big data changing lives to make world a better place by helping businesses make big decisions and solve real world problems.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

With Java 7 attaining end of life in 2015, there was a need to revise the minimum runtime version to Java 8 with a new Hadoop release so that the new release is supported by Oracle with security fixes and also will allow hadoop to upgrade its dependencies to modern versions. x Features Hadoop 2.x x Hadoop 3.x What’s New in Hadoop 3.0?

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Scott Logic

MARCH 19, 2025

A study by Nordea Equity Research reports that between 2012 and 2015, organisations with high ESG ratings outperform the lowest rated organisations by as much as 40%. They rely on this insight to satisfy their investors and stakeholders by ensuring that they provide good investment opportunities, with low risk.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Write an SQL query to estimate the full revenue generated by each customer in 2015. How will you support the marketing team in bringing back the customers that churned out? Write an SQL query to deduce the list of customers that churned out. Amazon Data Engineer Data Management Questions Q9. What do you mean by a chasm trap?

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Omer Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Quora 'Most Viewed Writer in 'Data Mining' Dezyre Hadoop Training Review for the Batch May 10th, 2015 Karan is a good instructor, knowledgeable and very polite. Going a step further explaining core concepts Dezyre Hadoop Training Review for the Batch March 29th, 2015 Karan did a great job.

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Knowledge Hut

JUNE 25, 2024

The first edition was launched on February 25, 2015, and the second edition was issued on May 3, 2019. The first version was launched in August 2012, and the second edition was updated in December 2015 for Python 3. This book was released on 14 April 2015. Readers gave this book a rating of 4.36 This book is rated 3.91

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 10, 2019

By Adam Wang , Andy Swan , Raja Senapati , Shilpa Jois , Anjali Chablani , Deepa Krishnan , Vidya Sundaram , and Casey Wilms You can also check out highlights from our past events: May 2019 , November 2018 , March 2018 , August 2017 , January 2017 , May 2016 , November 2015 , March 2015 , February 2014 & August 2014.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In 2015, Spring Cloud Netflix reached 1.0. Governator for dependency injection with lifecycle management and Archaius for configuration. All of these Netflix libraries and systems were open-sourced around 2012 and are still used by the community to this day.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 13, 2023

Image source: Bicycling magazine This change made a major difference : “In 2015 we began shipping our bikes to the USA. To avoid rough handling during delivery, the company came up with an innovative idea: package the bike like a TV box : This is not a TV, but a VanMoof bike. Just don’t tell the carriers!

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And the last time we did something meaningful together was during the Nepal Earthquake in 2015. I did the Everest Base Camp trek in 2015 and fortunately for me, I left Nepal 5 days before the major earthquake. This is such a momentous experience, what motivated you to sign up for such an intense physical challenge?

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

300+ big data conferences were organized in 2015 across the globe. If you have missed attending some of the best big data conferences that happened in 2015 - like the Predictive Analytics World, Strata+ Hadoop World, useR, IBM Insights and Joint Statistical meetings -try not to miss out an opportunity to attend a big data conference in 2016.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 20, 2019

By Abi Seshadri and Rachel Rivera You can also check out highlights from our past events: November 2018 , March 2018 , August 2017 , January 2017 , May 2016 , November 2015 , March 2015 , February 2014 & August 2014. Thanks to all the teams who put together a great round of hacks in 24 hours. Netflix Studio Hack Day?—?May

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I talked with Sketch employees to find out what happened to the company which enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity in around 2015. Just weeks after Figma was sold for $20B to Adobe, the design platform Sketch laid off 30% of its staff. Why did Sketch change its approach from sustainable growth to hyper-growth?

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

professionals taking Hadoop certification are exponentially increasing as Hadoop is anticipated to be the most sought after skill in IT for 2015. 80% of IT respondents said they are targeting to complete some kind of training and certification this year.IT

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

2015 – 2021) What are your thoughts on the ongoing utility/benefits of projects such as ScyllaDB, particularly in light of the most recent release? 2015 – 2021) What are your thoughts on the ongoing utility/benefits of projects such as ScyllaDB, particularly in light of the most recent release?

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ThoughtSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I like to use a surfing analogy that I first heard from a VC in 2015. There are really three core things for me when it comes to evaluating career opportunities: People, culture and technology. First, you need an incredible product, which is the surfboard.

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 10, 2024

PharmEasy Founded by Dharmil Sheth, Dhaval Shah, and Mikhil Innani in the year 2015, PharmEasy is a Mumbai-based startup focusing on the health care, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical industries. As the field of artificial intelligence is a widely developing subject in the future, Skit.ai is also expected to grow just as fast. billion.

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Scott Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While Swift and Rust are both quite new languages (2014 and 2015 respectively), Zig is even younger, having emerged in 2016, which makes it one year older than WebAssembly (which had its first MVP release in 2017). However, despite having numerous commits over many years, this PR hasn’t been merged.

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