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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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 22, 2024

Friday routine ( credits ) It's Friday and it's Data News. I don't go into too much detail about the magic of Data News, but every Friday is the same. At first, I'm: oh s**t, here we go again and 10 minutes later I'm lost in reading the content and picking too many articles to fit into a thousand word edition. Usually all the process takes me a whole Friday.

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Waitingforcode

MARCH 22, 2024

Apache Spark leverages the observer design pattern for the framework-to-code communication. One of the consumers' implementations is StreamingQueryListener.

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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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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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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 20, 2024

Are you curious about what it takes to become a professional data scientist? Look no further! By following these guides, you can transform yourself into a skilled data scientist and unlock endless career opportunities.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

MARCH 18, 2024

Want to know how to grow to the Senior Engineering position? Take a look. The post The Path To Senior Engineer appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Cloudera

MARCH 22, 2024

As enterprise AI technologies rapidly reshape our digital environment, the foundation of your cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. That’s why Cloudera and Red Hat , renowned for their open-source solutions, have teamed up to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) to Cloudera on public cloud as the operating system for all of our public cloud platform images.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 22, 2024

GenAI has enabled new search engine platforms with unique features and advantages, challenging Google's dominance.

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Engineering 132

Confluent

MARCH 21, 2024

Learn the best practices for using Confluent Schema Registry, including using schema IDs, understanding subjects and versions, using data contracts, pre-registering schemas, and more.

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Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 22, 2024

When I worked in the hospitality industry, the electricity abruptly went out while we were establishing the network and door locks. To my surprise, the door lock opened like any other door. This was the first time in my life that I had ever seen a fail-safe door lock. I have comprehensively analyzed the area of physical security, particularly the ongoing discussion surrounding fail safe vs fail-safe secure electric strike locking systems.

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databricks

MARCH 21, 2024

We are excited to announce the release of the Databricks AI Security Framework (DASF) version 1.0 whitepaper! The framework is designed to improve.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 20, 2024

Learn data science according to your expertise with these 4 different learning roadmaps.

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WeCloudData

MARCH 20, 2024

Machine learning is revolutionizing traffic prediction, enhancing route planning and reducing congestion in urban commuting. Explore advanced algorithms like Uni-LSTM and BiLSTM for accurate forecasts, along with Google Maps' integration of deep learning for improved ETA accuracy. Discover the practical utility of machine learning in everyday life. The post Navigating your way: Traffic Prediction with Machine Learning appeared first on WeCloudData.

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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 20, 2024

Employees who are in the profession today will change occupations considerably more much of the time than in past time. Thus, you should be aware and proactive in dealing with your profession. Yet, does this mean you need to yield in different parts of your life that are important to you? Our lives are sufficiently occupied balancing work and family without finding time for making out significant profession improvements also.

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databricks

MARCH 21, 2024

Benchmarking for training (dense) models at scale. We demonstrate great performance (very high MFU) and highlight our use of NVIDIA's Transformer Engine, along with PyTorch FSDP and DTensor.

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Engineering 95

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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Robinhood

MARCH 18, 2024

The largest UK brokers typically charge UK investors, with a £10,000 portfolio, an average of £240 per year to invest in US stocks*–Robinhood offers no commission fees and no foreign exchange (FX) fees on trades.** Today, we’ve rolled all eligible customers off our waitlist and Robinhood is now officially available throughout the United Kingdom. With Robinhood, customers simply get more for their money, with no commission fees and no foreign exchange (FX) fees on trades, access to more than 6,00

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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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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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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 20, 2024

At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We’ve seen significant benefits by adopting the AV1 codec for RTC. Here’s how we are improving the RTC video quality for our apps with tools like the AV1 codec, the challenges we face, and how we mitigate those challenges.

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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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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.

Data Science

Knowledge Hut

MARCH 20, 2024

Today, in the growing dynamic environment, definitely the only non-changed thing is changing itself, whatever the driver is from, opportunity or threats from outside or inside your organization… Believing some of you already realized that more and more talents were being required in the market, since most of the developed organizations were investing more and more for building up or upgrading of the organization capability, for catering to the growing dynamic environment, that just is the capabi

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Cloudera

MARCH 22, 2024

We’re excited to announce that Cloudera has been named the Best Medium Workplace in Ireland , one of the Best Workplaces in Costa Rica , and one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces for Women for 2024. These recognitions underscore Cloudera’s ongoing efforts to prioritize employee well-being, professional development, and collaborative work environments.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 21, 2024

MetaGPT's newest agent addition makes running data interpretation and analysis tasks a breeze. Find out more and give it a try for yourself.

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Snowflake

MARCH 21, 2024

Snowflake is committed to helping our customers unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive better decisions, improve productivity and reach more customers using all types of data. Large Language Models ( LLMs ) are a critical component of generative AI applications, and multimodal models are an exciting category that allows users to go beyond text and incorporate images and video into their prompts to get a better understanding of the context and meaning of the data.

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Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 19, 2024

Choosing a good career after the 12th grade is a stressful process for students. The first question that comes to mind is “what should I do after 12th science?” Students seek their 12th standard in science as these are the prospective disciplines that most appeal to them. However, it is critical to conduct extensive studies on the various job opportunities in the science domain after 12th grade that match their preferences.

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Pinterest Engineering

MARCH 20, 2024

Adopted by Pinterest multiple user facing surfaces, Ads, and Board. Jianjin Dong | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality; Qinglong Zeng | Senior Engineering Manager, Content Quality; Andrey Gusev | Director, Content Quality; Yangyi Lu | Machine Learning Engineer, Home Feed; Han Sun | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Conversion Modeling; William Zhao | Software Engineer, Boards Foundation, Jay Ma | Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Lightweight Ranking LinkSage: Graph Neural Network ba

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KDnuggets

MARCH 18, 2024

Learn how to automate machine learning training and evaluation using scikit-learn pipelines, GitHub Actions, and CML.

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databricks

MARCH 20, 2024

Next-generation customer experiences are built upon data and insights derived from various touchpoints. Through these, marketers can detect subtle differences in customer needs.

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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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