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Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem

The Pragmatic Engineer

The dilemma is this: a large, market-leading company has some motivation to innovate, but also a strong disincentive as well, because innovation risks undermining its existing products. In 2009, it was revolutionary and the majority of the JavaScript backend development community moved to this ecosystem.

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BazelDay Amsterdam 2024 at Booking.com

Booking.com Engineering

On 25 March, Booking.com joined forces with Engflow Inc to organize and host Amsterdam’s first ever first Bazel Community Day. Booking.com’s brand new headquarters welcomed over 70 attendees from different companies and backgrounds, for an afternoon of connection, talks, and an unconference in which 3 topics were discussed.

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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

The Pragmatic Engineer

A year ago, I spent months doing an investigative report on how UK events tech company Pollen had its staff work for free, as it had run out of money but still kept operating. The company kept promising that missing wages would arrive – but they never did. The company went bankrupt, and the details I uncovered were troubling.

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#ClouderaLife Allyship April Q&A with Antoine Burrell

Cloudera

Allyship isn’t merely a buzzword; it’s a fundamental commitment to actively support and advocate for marginalized individuals and communities within our organization. It’s eye-opening to see how different the world is for them compared to my upbringing. How does Cloudera support allyship across the company?

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Moving Beyond MTEB and BEIR: Snowflake AI Research Joins Forces with the University of Waterloo to Evolve RAG and Retrieval Benchmarks

Snowflake

To accurately answer business questions using LLMs, companies must augment models with their data. While the adoption of RAG has increased, an open question remains: How do enterprises know how effective their system is? It’s about creating novel open-source data sets and tasks to revolutionize the field.

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to go from a developer, to eventually become the CEO of a large and growing company. The company supports billions of active time series across its customer fleet. Then, I joined a startup that tried to beat Facebook, and become the #1 social media company in Australia, around 2007.

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Data News — Week 24.08

Christophe Blefari

JVM vs. SQL data engineer — There's a big discussion in the community about what real data engineering is. Google releases Gemma — Gemma is a family of open models. Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow — Go deeper into memory management and how you can create open standards across the different librairies.

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