The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 19, 2024

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover one out of three topics from last week’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. Today, full subscribers got access to a comprehensive Senior-and-above tech compensation research.

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Confluent

MARCH 19, 2024

Seamlessly integrate Apache Kafka data into your lakehouse as Apache Iceberg tables, bridging the operational and analytical divide, with Tableflow. Read more in our blog post.

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databricks

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Lilac is joining Databricks. Lilac is a scalable, user-friendly tool for data scientists to search, cluster.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 19, 2024

Statistics is a must-have skill for data science. And here are 5 free books that’ll help you learn all the statistics you need as a data professional.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Logical thinking skills play a significant role in developing careers because they help you reason through vital decisions, generate creative ideas, set goals, and solve problems. You may encounter multiple challenges in your life when you enter the job industry or advance your career. Therefore, need strong logical reasoning skills to solve your problems.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 19, 2024

Check out this beginner’s guide to understanding the role of Large Language Model Operations for seamless user experiences.

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Confluent

MARCH 19, 2024

Confluent Cloud's serverless Flink offering is now available on all major clouds, offering a unified, managed platform for real-time data processing.

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Precisely

MARCH 19, 2024

Face à des bouleversements économiques sans précédent, de plus en plus d’entreprises se tournent vers l’automatisation pour assurer la réussite de leur transformation numérique, obtenir des résultats opérationnels tangibles et garantir l’intégrité des données, c’est-à-dire des données avec un niveau optimal de précision, de cohérence et de contexte.

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Confluent

MARCH 19, 2024

Check out the latest features on Confluent Cloud including improvements to 80+ connectors, stream governance updates, enterprise cluster savings, and much more.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Your resume is one of the most important documents you will ever create. It is your first opportunity to make a good impression on a potential employer, and it can determine whether or not you get an interview. If you're an experienced job seeker, you know that your resume needs to be tailored to the position you're applying for. But what about your career objective ?

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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RandomTrees

MARCH 19, 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has turned into a progressive power, reshaping innovation and inventiveness. From creating text and pictures to making music, generative artificial intelligence has opened extraordinary potential outcomes. Nonetheless, alongside its capacities, generative Artificial Intelligence delivers a large group of moral contemplations that request cautious consideration.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Despite attending similar interviews multiple times, many individuals still experience anxiety. The question "Tell me about yourself" often induces nervousness, irrespective of whether one is a seasoned professional or a newcomer entering the field. Introducing oneself at the start of a discussion is a common scenario that often causes candidates to stumble.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 19, 2024

How to Craft Remarkable Code that Safeguards Machine Learning Pipelines and Your Sanity Alike!

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

There are a lot of opportunities waiting for UX design enthusiasts, provided they consider moving to Germany. The country’s capital, Berlin, is a well-established tech hub that boasts a multicultural environment. Upon moving here, you will experience a diversified pool of opportunities in digital product companies, design agencies, startups, etc. Even while talking about the average, the UX designer’s salary in Berlin, Germany is always on the higher side.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Snowflake

MARCH 19, 2024

A company’s data strategy is always in motion. Since the explosion of interest in generative AI and large language models (LLMs), that is more true than ever, with business leaders discussing how quickly they should adopt these technologies to stay competitive. Some emerging approaches may be seen in our newly released Snowflake Data Trends 2024 , looking at how users in the Data Cloud are working with their data.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

In today's digital transformation era, machine learning has emerged as a transformative technology driving innovation across industries. Machine Learning Software Engineers are at the forefront of this revolution, applying their expertise to develop intelligent systems and algorithms. In this blog, I will describe the role of a Machine Learning Software Engineer, their responsibilities, required skills, and the path to becoming one.

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Snowflake

MARCH 19, 2024

Executives across various industries are under pressure to reach insights and make decisions quickly. This is driving the importance of streaming data and analytics, which play a crucial role in making better-informed decisions that likely lead to faster, better outcomes. While traditional systems store and process data in batches, streaming data refers to data that is continuously generated from a variety of sources.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

The world of cloud computing sure has abundant knowledge to offer. Most importantly, as someone who has been knee-deep in this domain, I can tell you how crucial Azure administrators these days are. I have spent a lot of time working with Microsoft Azure and can ascertain that being an Azure admin is in high demand! Having worked with a handful of big-shot companies in my career, I can confidently tell you that Azure can work wonders for them.

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Software Engineering is an exciting and rewarding field, continually developing, and offering a wide variety of career choices. A day in the life of a software engineer can differ depending on the role they are playing, their industry, and how big their workplace is. In this article, we are going to uncover what is typical day for a software engineer and pay attention to their tasks, workplace, what you can do for software engineers and the technology they are using.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

The exciting world of cloud computing requires a good hands-on experience with its basic principles. In this journey, I'll break down key ideas shaping cloud technology. Cloud computing fundamentally changes how we access computing power, ditching the need for physical setups. It offers services on-demand, making things flexible and cost-friendly. With broad network access, you can connect from anywhere.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

In today's world, where quality development and efficiency are essential for organizations across all industries, Six Sigma is seen as a way to make operations seamless. It started as a set of methods and tools to enhance processes across organizations, but now it's a big idea that companies all over the world have started adapting. In this post, I will give you a look into the future of Six Sigma and talk about how it's growing and what's happening in the market now.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Application software engineers are essential for the development and maintenance of software programs that power modern technology. The software systems that run our everyday lives, from workplace solutions to smartphone apps, are designed by these talented people. It's critical to understand the position, its prerequisites, and the next steps to pursue a career in software application engineering if you've ever had a passion to work in that field.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Have you ever wondered how all those services and apps operate so smoothly together to improve our digital lives? All of this is possible because of cloud computing, the unsung hero of the computer industry. Imagine a business that is trying to innovate and improve its processes as it faces obstacles. Come into the cloud and intervene to rescue the day.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

WordPress has become a leader as it maintains the leading positions, with over a million sites being run on the platform across the world. If you’re looking forward to taking your WordPress website to the next level by fixing its performance, scalability, and security issues, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is your perfect buddy. WordPress powers a whopping 43% (Source: themeisle) of the world’s online presence, having its robust and versatile platform that is widely used on the net.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

A software development environment (SDE) is an operating setup or system framework applied in easing, writing, testing, and deployment of applications in a quick manner. Basically, it contains a code editor, a compiler or interpreter, a debugger, and other essential tools aiding in the smoothing of the development process. The environment in software development guarantees that the developer will work with an integrated set of tools that are consistent and cohesive in order to produce, in the be

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Think of waiting in line at a coffee shop, people usually form a queue at the order counter and the first person in queue places their order, once done they exit the queue for the next person in line to go ahead with their order process. Now, imagine a digital line where tasks wait for a computer's attention. This digital line is called a queue, a crucial concept in computer science.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

AWS is the gold standard of Cloud Computing and has some reasons for it. It offers more than 170 AWS services to the developers so they can use them from anywhere when required. AWS Applications provide many services, from storage to serverless computing, and can be tailored to meet diverse business requirements. Certainly, AWS is the market leader since it has a 41.5% market share, while all of its rivals combined, Microsoft Azure (29.4%), Google Cloud (3.0%), and IBM (2.6%), do not even reach

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Whether tackling a technical issue at work or finding our way around a roadblock unnoticed by Google Maps, problem-solving is a daily occurrence for most people. But how prepared are you to overcome life's challenges? Do you rely on a structured process to ensure successful outcomes, or do you navigate through problems impulsively? Here's the crux: the strength of your problem-solving skills significantly impacts the ease and success of your life, both professionally and personally.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

After completing computer science studies, data science has become a popular career choice for graduates. However, some people in the sector may wonder how to get from data science to software engineering. It's feasible to go from a data scientist to a software engineer, and there are occupations that can help you move into a more successful career change.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

In project management , keeping track of how your project is progressing can be a nightmare. But don’t worry; Planned Value offers a solution to alleviate this concern. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge by PMI, planned Value is a fundamental concept in project management. In this blog, we’ll break down Planned Value for your better understanding.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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