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Shutting Down My Job Board for Software Engineering Positions After 2.5 Years

The Pragmatic Engineer

I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down permanently, despite a reasonable success in traction. The shutdown was triggered by my vendor – Pallet – discontinuing their job board and talent collective approach. However, I might have eventually come to the same decision myself, even without Pallet making this call.

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Establish A Single Source Of Truth For Your Data Consumers With A Semantic Layer

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Maintaining a single source of truth for your data is the biggest challenge in data engineering. Different roles and tasks in the business need their own ways to access and analyze the data in the organization. In order to enable this use case, while maintaining a single point of access, the semantic layer has evolved as a technological solution to the problem.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Python

KDnuggets

Learn Python through tutorials, blogs, books, project work, and exercises. Access all of it on GitHub for free and join a supportive open-source community.

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Export Symbols and Style Items from ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS

Starting with ArcGIS Pro 3.2, you can export all symbols in the map as style items and save them to a style in a single process.

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Apache Airflow® 101 Essential Tips for Beginners

Apache Airflow® is the open-source standard to manage workflows as code. It is a versatile tool used in companies across the world from agile startups to tech giants to flagship enterprises across all industries. Due to its widespread adoption, Airflow knowledge is paramount to success in the field of data engineering.

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Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days

The Pragmatic Engineer

👋 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 four topics from today’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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7 Steps to Mastering Data Engineering

KDnuggets

The only data engineering roadmap you need for an introduction to concepts, tools, and techniques to collect, store, transform, analyze, and model data.

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Multi-Scale Contour Styling in ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS

How to configure scale-appropriate contour lines and their labels.

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Snowflake Startup Challenge 2024: Announcing the 10 Semi-Finalists

Snowflake

In 2020, Snowflake announced a new global competition to recognize the work of early-stage startups building their apps — and their businesses — on Snowflake, offering up to $250,000 in investment as the top prize. Four years later, the Snowflake Startup Challenge has grown into a premiere showcase for emerging startups, garnering interest from companies in over 100 countries and offering a prize package featuring a portion of up to $1 million in potential investment opportunities and exclusive

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Databricks Doubles Cost. Reddit Explodes. I’m in Trouble!

Confessions of a Data Guy

I recently did a post on Linkedin and Reddit about Databricks removing Standard Tier and forcing folks into Unity Catalog. The post got big traction and blew up, more than I thought. Enough for the Databricks folk to hunt me down at work and tell me I’m naughty. I will be writing a more in-depth […] The post Databricks Doubles Cost. Reddit Explodes.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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The AI Transformation Strategy in the GenAI Era

KDnuggets

Similar to the iterative nature of AI projects, AI strategy also requires continuous adjustments to bring successful AI transformation.

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May I Borrow That Idea? – Pasting Feature Layer Properties

ArcGIS

Starting with ArcGIS Pro 3.2, you can copy layer properties from one feature layer and paste them to another.

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Data enrichment strategies in Apache Flink

Waitingforcode

Data enrichment is a crucial step in making data more usable by the business users. Doing that with a batch is relatively easy due to the static nature of the dataset. When it comes to streaming, the task is more challenging.

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Coda to Turn Data into Action for Business Users

Snowflake

One of our key objectives at Snowflake is to help enterprises fully unlock the value of their data, and an important aspect of that is making data both accessible and actionable to as many people as possible, regardless of their role or technical skill set. We’re announcing a new investment today that will transform how teams across the business work with data in the future.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Exploring the OpenAI API with Python

KDnuggets

Let’s learn all the useful services from the OpenAI.

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Databricks Wins 2024 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award

databricks

We're excited to announce that Databricks has been honored with the 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year award for Data -.

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Combine, Visualize, and Analyze Responses from Participatory Mapping

ArcGIS

Answering regional geographers' favorite question: Where is the Midwest to you?

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How to JOIN datasets in Polars … compared to Pandas.

Confessions of a Data Guy

It’s been a while since I wrote about Polars on this blog, I’ve been remiss. Some time ago I wrote a very simple comparison of switching from Pandas to Polars, I didn’t put much real effort into it, yet it was popular, so this is my attempt at trying to expand on that topic a […] The post How to JOIN datasets in Polars … compared to Pandas. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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5 Free Resources to Master Your Data Science Job Search

KDnuggets

Learn how to use various data science platforms to secure your first job.

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DSPy on Databricks

databricks

Large language models (LLMs) have generated interest in effective human-AI interaction through optimizing prompting techniques. “Prompt engineering” is a growing methodology for tailoring.

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High resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (April 2024)

ArcGIS

In April 2024, elevation layers have been updated with high-res datasets of Wales, New Zealand & German states of Bavaria, Saxony and Brandenburg

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Snowflake Achieves C5 and TISAX Certifications, Expanding Compliance Scope in Germany

Snowflake

As Snowflake continues to expand our commitment to compliance, we are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed both C5 and TISAX attestations in Germany. Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) C5 is an audited standard establishing baselines for cloud security. It was initially created for government agencies and organizations that work with the government to ensure security baselines are met by their cloud service providers (CSPs).

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Apache Airflow® Crash Course: From 0 to Running your Pipeline in the Cloud

With over 30 million monthly downloads, Apache Airflow is the tool of choice for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. Airflow enables you to define workflows as Python code, allowing for dynamic and scalable pipelines suitable to any use case from ETL/ELT to running ML/AI operations in production. This introductory tutorial provides a crash course for writing and deploying your first Airflow pipeline.

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5 Free SQL Courses for Data Science Beginners

KDnuggets

Are you looking to make a career in data science? Start by learning SQL with these free courses.

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Common Pitfalls of Data Analytics Projects

Seattle Data Guy

Have you ever been part of a data or software project that seems stuck in a loop? Three weeks have passed, and although you arrive at work daily, exhausted, having tackled numerous issues, the project remains stagnant. Why? Then, suddenly, a new engineer or project manager steps in, reorganizes and prioritizes tasks, and just like… Read more The post Common Pitfalls of Data Analytics Projects appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Unapologetically Technical Episode 10 – Michael Drogalis

Jesse Anderson

And just like that, we’re down to the 10th episode of Unapologetically Technical! In this episode, I interview Michael Drogalis, the founder and CEO of ShadowTraffic where we talked about the early Hadoop era and how he saw the need for Kafka in the industry. He shared his journey of starting a new company in his 20s and being acquired by Confluent.

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Writing Apache Spark with Rust! Spark Connect Introduced.

Confessions of a Data Guy

I never thought I would live to see the day, it’s crazy. I’m not sure who’s idea it was to make it possible to write Apache Spark with Rust, Golang, or Python … but they are all genius. As of Apache Spark 3.4 it is now possible to use Spark Connect … a thin API […] The post Writing Apache Spark with Rust! Spark Connect Introduced. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Popular Google Certification for All Areas in the Tech Industry

KDnuggets

Want to get into the tech industry but don’t want to learn how to code?

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Project Management Organizational Structure: Types & Examples

Knowledge Hut

Project management plays a significant role in the success of every organization. It ensures that the project is on track, aids in efficient management of resources, and also keeps the stakeholders know what is project and what's happening in it. In this blog, we will look at three different project organizational structures: functional, matrix, and process.

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Introducing the Data Intelligence Platform for Energy

databricks

Fostering a paradigm shift towards a smarter, cleaner & reliable energy system Electricity is the new oil. Sources of energy are becoming more.

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