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Automating dead code cleanup

Engineering at Meta

Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from both a business and programming language perspective. These are combined and form an augmented dependency graph.

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Fine-Tuning Improves the Performance of Meta’s Code Llama on SQL Code Generation 

Snowflake

Based on Snowflake’s testing, Meta’s newly released Code Llama models perform very well out-of-the-box. Code Llama models outperform Llama2 models by 11-30 percent-accuracy points on text-to-SQL tasks and come very close to GPT4 performance. We tested the out-of-the-box SQL performance of Code Llama before fine-tuning our own version.

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Introducing Cloudera DataFlow Designer: Self-service, No-Code Dataflow Design

Cloudera

Cloudera has been providing enterprise support for Apache NiFi since 2015, helping hundreds of organizations take control of their data movement pipelines on premises and in the public cloud. The post Introducing Cloudera DataFlow Designer: Self-service, No-Code Dataflow Design appeared first on Cloudera Blog.

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Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

The Pragmatic Engineer

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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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Every day, there’s more code at a tech company, not less. However, monorepos result in codebases growing large, so that even checking out the code or updating to the head can be time consuming. AWS launched in 2006, Azure in 2010, and GCP launched its first region in 2015. Concern about code leaks.

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The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture

Engineering at Meta

The app makes heavy use of code generation, spurred by Buck , our custom build system. Ultimately, this design exacerbated the creation of nondeterministic code that was very difficult to debug or reproduce bugs. Going into 2015, the app’s success would trigger what we refer to as a feature explosion. There was only one problem.

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15 Tableau Projects for Beginners to Practice with Source Code

ProjectPro

Upskill yourself for your dream job with industry-level big data projects with source code 4) Product Availability Dashboard This project is from the Product domain of the technology industry. A sample of the dataset is given below for reference:- City Date NO NO2 NOx NH3 CO SO2 O3 Benzene Toluene Xylene Ahmedabad 2015-01-01 0.92

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