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US Foods Builds Digital-First Ecommerce Platform with Data Streaming

Confluent

Learn how US Foods built a digital-first ecommerce platform—using data streaming to future-proof its infrastructure and implement data mesh principles.

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Building Your Data Product Machine: Less Tech, More Strategy

The Modern Data Company

With this in mind, let’s explore how to demystify the process of building your data-driven strategy, making it accessible and actionable. Design and Build Plan : Planning the production line with an eye for both current needs and future adaptability reflects the strategic approach needed for data architecture and processes.

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Snowflake Startup Challenge 2024: Announcing the 10 Semi-Finalists

Snowflake

In 2020, Snowflake announced a new global competition to recognize the work of early-stage startups building their apps — and their businesses — on Snowflake, offering up to $250,000 in investment as the top prize. This year’s entries presented an impressively diverse set of use cases. SignalFlare.ai

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New Year’s Resolutions and Gym Deals: A Catalyst for Changing Consumer Behavior

Precisely

Consumers kick-started the year by building more health-focused habits, with nearly a 5% increase in visits to gyms and grocery stores, while interest in less healthy options like convenience stores and fast-food chains dropped significantly. Meanwhile, visitation to fast food restaurants and convenience stores decreased by nearly 10%.

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Lifecycle of a Successful ML Product: Reducing Dasher Wait Times

DoorDash Engineering

Building an ML-powered delivery platform like DoorDash is a complex undertaking. Once we identify an opportunity, we usually start small by testing the ML hypothesis using a heuristic before deciding to invest into building out the ML models. If the initial heuristic works, we build out and replace the heuristic with the ML models.

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How to Build a Flexible Customer Support Platform with Kotlin

DoorDash Engineering

The legacy support application that DoorDash had built to issue credits and refunds was created only to address the original food delivery service. Instead, we pursued a complete redesign to upgrade our system, building a no-code platform and migrating the service to Kotlin, our new backend framework.

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Top Backend Project Ideas for Your Portfolio

Knowledge Hut

This article is mainly focused on explaining different backend projects for beginners or students, intermediate learners, or those who have mid enough software development experience building large scalable projects. can be helpful for building a few awesome backend projects. What are Backend Development Projects?