The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

Source: Dealroom Seed investments have dropped since 2021, but in 2022 were around the same level as in 2020 – and well above 2019. But what about seed rounds in Europe, typically of $1-4M by check size? Seed investments in Europe. Zooming out, how have all investment rounds stacked up against previous years?

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 16, 2020

Following the blueprint of science and technology advancements in 2019, we predict 10 trends we expect to see in 2020 and beyond. With integrations of multiple emerging technologies just in the past year, AI development continues at a fast pace.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 23, 2019

What is the Salary of a Data Scientist in 2019? Let's have a look at some data to see how we can answer that question.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 19, 2024

When we looked at GitHub Copilot alternatives , all were launched at least a year after GitHub Copilot’s 2021 launch except Tabnine, launched in 2019. However, Microsoft was one of the first to launch an AI coding assistant, years ahead of most other startups. AI dev tool startups need outlandish claims to grab attention.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 22, 2023

In 2019, Sundar Pichai wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times, where he recorded a powerful commitment (emphasis mine) “To make privacy real, we give you clear, meaningful choices around your data. Obviously, there are plenty of questions. Does this count as selling personal information to a third party?

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Confluent

JANUARY 21, 2020

Netflix spent an estimated $15 billion to produce world-class original content in 2019. When stakes are so high, it is paramount to enable our business with critical insights that help […].

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 11, 2023

Datadog is a leading observability tooling provider which went public in 2019, with a current market cap of $28B. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. The company made $1.67B revenue in 2022, circa $140M per month.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 16, 2019

Check out these current trends in skills most desired by employers in 2019. As a data scientist, you are in high demand. So, how can you increase your marketability even more?

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With digital transformations occurring in organizations around the world, 2019 included trends of more companies leveraging more data to make better decisions. The field of Data Science is growing with new capabilities and reach into every industry. Check out these next trends in Data Science expected to take off in 2020.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 6, 2023

I share my first-hand experience of Uber’s 2019 and 2020 layoffs in the Netherlands, and what employee protection might mean for Big Tech and hiring in Europe. Meta and Amazon are realizing what companies like Microsoft and Uber learned the hard way: that in Europe you cannot hire fast, then fire fast.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Since 5G networks began rolling out commercially in 2019, telecom carriers have faced a wide range of new challenges: managing high-velocity workloads, reducing infrastructure costs, and adopting AI and automation.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The full article additionally covers: The struggle for scale at Amazon and the birth of SOA (late 1990s) Virtualization: the new frontier (1999-2002) Cloud computing: A paradigm shift (2006-2009) Containers and Kubernetes: reshaping the backend landscape (2013-2019) Today’s backend ecosystem: defining “modern” Envisioning the future (..)

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Zhamak Dehghani introduced the concepts behind this architectural patterns in 2019, and since then it has been gaining popularity with many companies adopting some version of it in their systems. How has your view of the principles of the data mesh changed since our conversation in July of 2019?

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics states that computer and information research scientists would experience a job growth rate of 15% from 2019 to 2029. TensorFlow was cited by almost 55% of respondents in both 2019 and 2020 surveys. This increase in salary corresponds to an annual increase of 2.25%.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 3, 2023

For example, in 2019, the online round featured a challenge relating to a problem with Google Photos : “ Introduction : As the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words." More details about this conference on its website. " We agree – photos are an important part of contemporary digital and cultural life.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

As per a 2020 report by DICE, data engineer is the fastest-growing job role and witnessed 50% annual growth in 2019. Years after that, we find a shortage in the number of skilled data engineers and an increase in the number of jobs.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 1, 2024

When we looked at GitHub Copilot alternatives , all were launched at least a year after GitHub Copilot’s 2021 launch except Tabnine, launched in 2019. However, Microsoft was one of the first to launch an AI coding assistant, years ahead of most other startups. AI dev tool startups need outlandish claims to grab attention.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2019, the company embarked on a mission to modernize and simplify its data platform. Prior to 2019, Marriott was an early adopter of Netezza and Hadoop, leveraging the IBM BigInsights platform. As Marriott’s business has grown over the past century, its data infrastructure has become more complex.

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Yelp Engineering

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In 2019, Yelp’s Core Android team led an effort to boost navigation performance in Yelp’s Consumer app. We switched from building screens with multiple separate activities to using fragments inside a single activity.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

BERT4Rec: Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer, Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 19) , Beijing, China, 2019, pp. 14411450, doi: 10.1145/3357384.3357895. Zhai et al.,

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Between 2019-02-01 and 2019-05-01, find the customer with the highest overall order cost. If a consumer placed multiple orders on the same day, calculate the order expenses daily. The output must include their initial name, the total cost of the items, and the date.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 20, 2023

In 2019, we were on our way to signing our first major customer contract for API fuzzing. People loved our fuzzer demos. But then we couldn’t deploy our fuzzer because most teams were lacking specs for their APIs! So we started to build API specs on top of our API security product.

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Robinhood

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2019, KLUTCH partnered with UTA, and in 2021, KLUTCH was recognized on TIME Magazine’s first-ever list of TIME100 Most Influential Companies. With proven expertise in the intersections of sports, entertainment, and culture, KLUTCH connects top teams, major leagues, and properties with global brands.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Between 2019-02-01 and 2019-05-01, find the customer with the highest overall order cost. In this section, you’ll explore coding-style SQL questions similar to those asked by companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta, helping you practice logical thinking and query optimization.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 12, 2021

A 2020 retention report by the Work Institute revealed that over 42 million employees in the US left their jobs voluntarily in 2019, and this trend appeared to be increasing. A 2019 HBR article mentioned how organizational decisions backed by data have instilled more confidence and reduced risk. Risk Management.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

2019: Users can view their activity off Meta-technologies and clear their history. feature on Facebook. 2018: Users have a curated experience to find information about them through Access Your Information. 2020: Users continue to receive more information in DYI such as additional information about their interactions on Facebook and Instagram.

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Robinhood

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Since 2019, we’ve completed an annual greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, and this year, we’ve included reporting our Scope 3 emissions, along with Scope 1 and 2. This year’s report describes our progress with ESG priorities for fiscal year 2023: Robinhood is dedicated to managing our environmental impact, including carbon emissions.

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Lyft Engineering

JUNE 8, 2023

Lyft was founded in 2012 and went public in 2019, with the mission to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. We’re looking for driven engineers to fortify our European operations and solve some of the hardest problems in building large distributed systems to support rideshare, mapping, and more.

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Jesse Anderson

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Alibaba bought Ververica. That’s because it was recently founded, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t formidable. The story starts with Data Artisans (later renamed to Ververica). It employed some of the top people in the Apache Flink project. Let’s just say this wasn’t the smoothest working relationship.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

To revamp the technologies and processes of their data pipelines , Airbnb started a data quality effort in 2019. Companies can reduce expenses while enhancing the quality of the data distributed throughout the organization by implementing DataOps practices.

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Cloudera

MAY 27, 2021

At least 75 out of 176 countries globally are actively using AI technologies for surveillance purposes,” the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed in its 2019 report, “ The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance.”. Apple and Goldman Sachs found that out the hard way in 2019.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 13, 2023

Until 2019, the company had only 8 locations, which limited their customer base. That small tweak had an outsized impact. Overnight, our shipping damages dropped by 70-80%.” ” One limitation of VanMoof bikes is that they can be serviced only in dedicated shops.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

In fact, as per a report by Dice Insights in 2019, companies are hungry for data engineers as the job role ranked at the top of the list of trending jobs. That has led to a huge demand for engineers who can assist in handling large reserves of data; in short, huge demand for data engineers.

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Netflix Tech

MAY 21, 2025

The netflix recommender system: Algorithms, business value, and innovation. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 6(4),119. [3] 3] Jannach, D., & Jugovac, M. Measuring the business value of recommender systems. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 10(4),123. [4] 4] Bhattacharya, M., & Lamkhede, S.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Let’s add the readings from 2019. READING THE 2019 DATA df_acidentes_2019 = ( spark.read.format("csv").option("delimiter", count() >> Output: 63576 The counts dropped because we’re reading from version 0, before the 2019’s data was inserted. option("delimiter", ";").option("header",

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

from 2019 to 2027, rising to $19.20 The ability to rapidly and efficiently analyze data and transform databases into meaningful insights is crucial in today's business-centric world. The global market for data visualization will likely increase at a CAGR of 10.2%

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Snowflake

DECEMBER 7, 2023

in 2018 , Firefox blocked third-party cookies by default with Firefox ETP in 2019 , and Google first announced blocking of third-party cookies on Chrome in 2019. Consumer privacy became the focus, and browser vendors responded: Apple began blocking third-party cookies with Apple Safari ITP 2.0

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