Christophe Blefari
MARCH 15, 2024
Mountains I hope this e-mail finds you well, wherever you are. I'd like to thank you for the excellent comments you sent me last week after the publication of the first version of the Recommendations. This is just the beginning! This week I've added a subscribe button in the Recommendations page in order for you to opt-in for the weekly recommendation email—every Tuesday.
The Pragmatic Engineer
MARCH 12, 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 five topics from today’s subscriber-only article What Changed in 50 Years of Computing.
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Data Engineering Podcast
MARCH 10, 2024
Summary Data lakehouse architectures are gaining popularity due to the flexibility and cost effectiveness that they offer. The link that bridges the gap between data lake and warehouse capabilities is the catalog. The primary purpose of the catalog is to inform the query engine of what data exists and where, but the Nessie project aims to go beyond that simple utility.
Waitingforcode
MARCH 12, 2024
That's the question. The lack of the processing time trigger means more a reactive micro-batch triggering but it cannot be considered as the single true best practice. Let's see why.
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Seattle Data Guy
MARCH 11, 2024
Recently, I wrote an article diving into what Druid is and which companies are using it. Now I wanted to do a deeper dive into Apache Druid’s architecture. Apache Druid has several unique features that allow it to be used as a real-time OLAP. Everything from its various nodes and processes that each have unique… Read more The post Apache Druid’s Architecture – How Druid Processes Data In Real Time At Scale appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Sharing a belief that open source solutions will foster innovation and transparency in generative AI development, Databricks has announced a partnership and participation.
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Confessions of a Data Guy
MARCH 14, 2024
Most Software Engineers think of themselves as too smart. They think they are the best and brightest coder alive or that has ever lived. Doing so, they stunt themselves from becoming Senior Engineers and become hard to work with, the nightmare of the PR process. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the […] The post Don’t Be So Smart appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.
ArcGIS
MARCH 11, 2024
A new R package created by the R-ArcGIS Bridge team enables integration with ArcGIS location services, enhancing their combined powers.
Yelp Engineering
MARCH 12, 2024
What is Engineering Effectiveness Metrics (EE Metrics)? EE Metrics was envisioned as a hub that helps teams manage their technical debt. EE Metrics provides every team with a detailed web page that contains information about technical debt that needs to be addressed. It also serves as a platform to highlight top engineering initiatives at the organization level.
KDnuggets
MARCH 15, 2024
Run large language models on your local PC for customized AI capabilities with more control, privacy, and personalization.
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.
Confessions of a Data Guy
MARCH 14, 2024
When you’ve been data modeling as long as I have, it gets to be the same old … same old. People make data modeling harder than it has to be. There is a lot of jargon that gets thrown around … third-normal-form, OLAP, OLTP … I give you the 3-4 basics that are at the […] The post Data Modeling Is Easy appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Policymakers around the world are paying increased attention to artificial intelligence. The world’s most comprehensive AI regulation to date was just passed by.
Knowledge Hut
MARCH 12, 2024
Project managers are in high demand, and companies are willing to pay top dollar for qualified individuals. In today's fast-paced business world, having a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can give you a significant advantage over other job candidates. As per the PMI statistics, a certified PMP is entitled to a pay increase of 20%.
KDnuggets
MARCH 13, 2024
If you are a data scientist who works with large amounts of data and hasn’t learned SQL yet - now might be the time.
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.
Confessions of a Data Guy
MARCH 13, 2024
Unless you’ve been hiding a rock you’ve probably heard the hubbub over Devin the new AI Software Engineer that is going to take your job. While this is a genius piece of marketing … it’s a bunch of crud. Never fear, you are in no more danger of losing your job in Software than when […] The post Is Devin Going To Take My Software Engineering Job?
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Introduction Let’s explore a common scenario – your team is eager to leverage open source LLMs to build chatbots for customer support interactions.
Snowflake
MARCH 12, 2024
Geospatial data can give a business a competitive edge — especially when it’s combined with the company’s own data resources. Considering a new store location? You’ll want to analyze not just where your nearest competitors and potential customers are, but also retail footfall numbers, historical traffic patterns, distance from distribution centers, environmental factors, potential delivery times to customers and more.
KDnuggets
MARCH 14, 2024
Explore the fundamental steps for creating a successful AI Application with Python and other tools.
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.
DoorDash Engineering
MARCH 12, 2024
The DoorDash ETA team is committed to providing an accurate and reliable estimated time of arrival (ETA) as a cornerstone DoorDash consumer experience. We want to ensure that every customer can trust our ETAs, ensuring a high-quality experience in which their food arrives on time every time. With more than 2 billion orders annually, our dynamic engineering challenge is to improve and maintain accuracy at scale while managing a variety of conditions within diverse delivery and merchant scenarios.
databricks
MARCH 11, 2024
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Feature Serving. Features play a pivotal role in AI Applications, typically requiring considerable.
Snowflake
MARCH 14, 2024
As a cohesive ERP solution, SAP is often one of the largest data resources in an organization, containing everything from financial and transactional data to master information about customers, vendors, materials, facilities, planning and even HR. But SAP has limited analytics capabilities, and directly ingesting SAP data into Snowflake can present a challenge.
KDnuggets
MARCH 13, 2024
Want to move into the data science field? Or advance your career in the data? Don’t miss these must-have skills.
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ArcGIS
MARCH 11, 2024
The ArcGIS Well-Architected Framework and ArcGIS Architecture Center provides guidance for implementing systems with ArcGIS.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence is top-of-mind with every C-suite in Retail & Consumer Goods. Companies see the potential to deliver better customer service, derive faster.
Snowflake
MARCH 11, 2024
Last year, we held our first Accelerate event , to explore industry trends, data and technology innovations, and data strategy case studies in financial services. This year, we are expanding to five industry events, featuring leaders in financial services; retail and consumer goods; manufacturing; media, advertising and entertainment; and healthcare and life sciences.
KDnuggets
MARCH 12, 2024
Want to switch to a tech career? Make it happen with these free computer science courses.
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.
ThoughtSpot
MARCH 15, 2024
This is part of our ongoing spotlight series which highlights ThougthSpot’s quarterly Selfless Excellence champion. ThoughtSpot's culture is rooted in our core value of Selfless Excellence. This means we consider our teammates, customers, and society at large ahead of our own personal wins without the distraction of office politics. Our common ground ensures that we are moving together with intention and integrity in everything we do—when we run the business, plan our go-to-market strategy,
Lyft Engineering
MARCH 11, 2024
Photo by Frank Olsen UNDER CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED Introduction Our payment platform team had the unique challenge to upgrade our Aurora Postgres DB from v10 to v13. This DB was responsible for storing transactions within Lyft and contains ~400 tables (with partitions) and ~30TB of data. Upgrading the database in-place would have resulted in ~30 mins of downtime.
Yelp Engineering
MARCH 11, 2024
Yelp’s mission is to connect consumers with great local businesses by giving them access to reliable and useful information. Consumer trust is one of our top priorities, which is why we make significant investments in technology and human moderation to protect the integrity and quality of content on Yelp. As a platform for user-generated content, we rely on our community of users and business owners to help report reviews that they believe may violate our Terms of Service and Content Guidelines.
KDnuggets
MARCH 14, 2024
Learn how to perform data analysis, data visualization, and model training in GoLang, just like Python.
Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig
Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating
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