The Pragmatic Engineer
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here. This article was updated in December 2022. In the midst of gloomy news about hiring freezes and layoffs, let's highlight companies which are growing and hiring.
Netflix Tech
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
by Christos G. Bampis , Li-Heng Chen and Zhi Li When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes. To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. For example, we invest in next-generation, royalty-free codecs and sophisticated video encoding optimizations.
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Teradata
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
"Doing more with less” is a familiar refrain echoing through the halls of many organizations. To answer this call, businesses are searching for efficiency gains & turning to data to unlock savings.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Python is the most popular general-purpose language and you can learn it for free.
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.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Cloudera’s November Volunteer Spotlight is Glaucia Esppenchutz , staff data engineer, based in Lisbon, Portugal. . Glaucia volunteers with Free Code Camp , an organization founded in 2014 that helps aspiring technicians learn to code for free. . Through the creation and publication of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons — all freely available to the public — Free Code Camp is able to reach and train millions of people annually.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Learn three simple steps to install Julia for Jupyter Notebook and write your first data visualization code.
Data Engineering Digest brings together the best content for data engineering professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
A step-by-step tutorial on geocoding with Python.
U-Next
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Introduction . AWK is a scripting language for text processing that allows the user to perform operations on text files based on a set of conditions. The user can select which lines of text to process based on a set of criteria and can perform various operations on the text, such as printing, editing, or deleting. AWK is often used to extract data from text files or perform operations on files too large to be processed by other tools. .
Elder Research
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The post How Often Does the Best Team Win the Title? appeared first on Elder Research.
U-Next
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
If the winners write history, then we are confident every one of our learners is here to make history. With the most robust industry-relevant curriculum delivered by expert faculty and a pedagogy lined by workshops and case studies for a comprehensive hands-on learning experience, our program is the best shot at owning a successful sales career for aspiring sales professionals. .
Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee
As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
As the leading financial institution of Pakistan, Habib Bank Limited (HBL) is at the forefront of all development initiatives which includes growth of priority sectors and targeting the unbanked population in the country. HBL remains committed to its objective of client centric innovation and financial inclusion for all segments of society. . HBL was the first Pakistani commercial bank to be established in Pakistan in 1947.
Lyft Engineering
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Vulnerability Management at Lyft: Enforcing the Cascade - Part 1 Converting container scan data into tickets, linked with automated pull requests Abstract Over the past 2 years, we’ve built a comprehensive vulnerability management program at Lyft. This blog post will focus on the systems we’ve built to address OS and OS-package level vulnerabilities in a timely manner across hundreds of services run on Kubernetes.
Cloudyard
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Read Time: 3 Minute, 0 Second SSO Login with Azure Active Directory: During this post we will discuss configure SSO (single sign-on) to connect with Snowflake via Azure Active Directory. With SSO enabled, your users authenticate through an external, SAML 2.0-compliant identity provider (IdP). Once authenticated by this IdP, users can securely initiate one or more sessions in Snowflake for the duration of their IdP session without having to log into Snowflake.
U-Next
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Introduction . A hypothesis test is a statistical test used to determine whether or not there is evidence to support a certain hypothesis. The null hypothesis is the hypothesis that there is no difference between the two groups being compared, while the alternative hypothesis says there is a difference between the two groups. . To conduct a hypothesis test, a researcher must first collect data from a sample of individuals.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
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