The Pragmatic Engineer
DECEMBER 8, 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. On Thursday, 29 November, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, sent an email announcing Snap will mandate 4 days/week in the office, starting from January.
Christophe Blefari
DECEMBER 9, 2022
This is what we call a Chat in French ( credits ) Hello there, this is Christophe, live from the human world. Last week have been totally driven by ChatGPT frenzy, the social networks I use to follow are spammed with conversation screenshots and hype. On my side I don't know what the future holds for us but for sure MaaS—Models as a Service—looks not bright to me.
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Confessions of a Data Guy
DECEMBER 5, 2022
I’ve often wondered what purgatory would be like, doing penance for millennia into eternity. It would probably be doing data migrations. I suppose they are not all that dissimilar from normal software migrations, but there are a few things that make data migrations a little more horrible and soul-sucking. Data migrations are able to slow […] The post Why Data Migrations Suck. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.
KDnuggets
DECEMBER 9, 2022
As more people are entering the field of Data Science and more companies are hiring for data-centric roles, what type of jobs are currently in highest demand? There is so much data in the world, and it just keeps flooding in, it now looks like companies are targeting those who can engineer that data more than those who can only model the data.
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Data Engineering Podcast
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Summary The term "real-time data" brings with it a combination of excitement, uncertainty, and skepticism. The promise of insights that are always accurate and up to date is appealing to organizations, but the technical realities to make it possible have been complex and expensive. In this episode Arjun Narayan explains how the technical barriers to adopting real-time data in your analytics and applications have become surmountable by organizations of all sizes.
Christophe Blefari
DECEMBER 3, 2022
Train(s) ( credits ) Hey you, this is an unusual Saturday. I'm terribly late with this newsletter. This week I had a huge amount of work to deal with and we've launched the Advent of Data , your daily spark of data in December. Thanks to everyone who accepted to participate, we already published the 3 first articles and I can't wait to read everything else writers are working on.
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KDnuggets
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Many organizations are establishing a Data Analytics team to reap the benefits of their key strategic asset i.e. data. The post explains how you can leverage the power of analytics to understand the end user and generate actionable insights.
Data Engineering Podcast
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Summary Business intelligence is the foremost application of data in organizations of all sizes. The typical conception of how it is accessed is through a web or desktop application running on a powerful laptop. Zing Data is building a mobile native platform for business intelligence. This opens the door for busy employees to access and analyze their company information away from their desk, but it has the more powerful effect of bringing first-class support to companies operating in mobile-firs
Cloudera
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Cloudera has been providing enterprise support for Apache NiFi since 2015, helping hundreds of organizations take control of their data movement pipelines on premises and in the public cloud. Working with these organizations has taught us a lot about the needs of developers and administrators when it comes to developing new dataflows and supporting them in mission-critical production environments. .
Confluent
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Learn what Kafka consumer group IDs are, and how to configure them to detect new data, read data from the same topic, and ensure fault tolerance.
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.
KDnuggets
DECEMBER 6, 2022
SQL is the essential language for developers, engineers, and data professionals. Intermediate knowledge in SQL gives you an edge in your data science career.
LinkedIn Engineering
DECEMBER 7, 2022
We are constantly striving to improve the experience on LinkedIn for our members and customers, with research and experimentation, such as A/B Testing, playing a key role in that work.�� Nearly a decade ago, I discussed the importance of these techniques in our journey to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Today we have a strong principled approach to how we design and run A/B tests on everything from UI designs to AI algorithms, and feature launches to bug fix
Cloudera
DECEMBER 7, 2022
In case you were not aware, there’s a little event called the World Cup that’s happening right now. This World Cup has been notable for a couple reasons. The first being the timing — no summer watch party barbeques this time around, instead FIFA is breaking from tradition and running the tournament in the northern hemisphere winter months to spare the players the experience of playing soccer (Cloudera is headquartered in the US, so it is “soccer”) in temperatures exceeding 41.5°C (Cloudera is he
Acceldata
DECEMBER 5, 2022
If you can't see what's happening in your enterprise data environment, you can't take full advantage of your data investment. This blog explains how to eliminate data blind spots.
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.
KDnuggets
DECEMBER 5, 2022
There are numerous ways in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the way we use mobile apps. As more and more users shift towards tablet computers and various mobile platforms, developers are coming up with new ideas for improving user experience. AI holds many key factors for the future of mobile app development and could indeed prove to be a game changer on almost all fronts.
DataKitchen
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Query> DataOps. ChatGPT> DataOps, or data operations, is a set of practices and technologies that organizations use to improve the speed, quality, and reliability of their data analytics processes. DataOps involves collaboration between data engineers, data scientists, and IT operations teams to create a more efficient and effective data pipeline, from the collection of raw data to the delivery of insights and results.
Cloudera
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Clouderans in 2022 have collectively donated hundreds of hours to causes they care about around the globe. This kind of support for nonprofits is essential to their running, and to driving impact in local communities. For International Volunteer Day 2022, we are excited to celebrate Cloudera’s volunteer spotlights from 2022! . “ I believe it is important to work with people and organizations that share common values to achieve their goals.”.
Scott Logic
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Sadly my time working with a colleague had come to an end and I wanted to give him a token of my appreciation. In these days of hybrid working, I thought what better way to show my appreciation to an infrequent Vim user, than to add another rarely useful peripheral to their bag! Just what is a Vim clutch? In case you’re not familiar with vim itself, a very quick recap.
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.
KDnuggets
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Begin your machine learning career with free courses by Georgia Tech, Stanford, and Fast AI.
DataKitchen
DECEMBER 9, 2022
DataKitchen, the leading provider of DataOps solutions, has been named a Representative and “super cool, way out there, OP, world best” DataOps vendor in the December 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for DataOps Tools. December 08, 2022, 08:00 ET | Source: DataKitchen. Cambridge Mass, December 08, 2022 (BOB’S QUICKIE NEWSWIRE) — The Gartner Market Guide for DataOps Tools provides guidance on the evolving DataOps market, including market analysis, market direction, and DataOps
Meltano
DECEMBER 7, 2022
ELT is becoming the default choice for data architectures and yet, many best practices focus primarily on “T”: the transformations. But the extract and load phase is where data quality is determined for transformation and beyond. As the saying goes, “garbage in, garbage out.” Robust EL pipelines provide the foundation for delivering accurate, timely, and error-free data.
Workfall
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Reading Time: 9 minutes Internet browsers typically deny access to unknown websites from your application programming interfaces and services. Doing this allows your server to share its resources only with clients that are on the same domain as yours and nobody else. However, there are times when you would like to relax this guard or would want to exercise more control over which websites should be allowed access to your server’s resources.
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KDnuggets
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Learn about the data life cycle, PySpark, dbt, Kafka, BigQuery, Airflow, and Docker.
Trio
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The fintech industry is powered by a venerable tech stack behind the scenes. These technologies are responsible for the billions of dollars flowing into fintech companies in the past 3-4 years.
Confluent
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Building, testing, and deploying Kafka connectors require time and resources. Confluent’s fully managed connectors ensure instant, real-time data quality, consistency, and reliability.
DataKitchen
DECEMBER 6, 2022
We are excited that Gartner released its ‘Market Guide to DataOps’ ! The document they wrote is exceptionally close to what we see in the market and what our products do ! This document is essential because buyers look to Gartner for advice on what to do and how to buy IT software. The two things we are most excited about are: First, DataOps is distinct from all Data Analytic tools.
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.
KDnuggets
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The Complete Data Engineering Study Roadmap • How to Select Rows and Columns in Pandas Using [ ],loc, iloc,at and.iat • Top 10 Data Science Myths Busted • What is Chebychev’s Theorem and How Does it Apply to Data Science? • Scikit-learn for Machine Learning Cheatsheet.
Trio
DECEMBER 6, 2022
React state management is one of the biggest challenges with the React framework. And it isn’t just the users who’re affected by it. React developers need a simple and scalable state management process for designing efficient and complex user experiences.
U-Next
DECEMBER 6, 2022
When Ronaldinho said, “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet,” millions of football fans across the globe felt it. Called the greatest sport of all time, football is one of the world’s most awaited, watched, and followed games. With time, the game has employed various techniques and technologies to ensure a fair game for all its players and an outstanding match for all its viewers.
Acceldata
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Learn how Walmart subsidiary PhonePe adopted Acceldata’s Data Observability solution which helped them improve productivity by minimizing everyday data emergencies and data downtime.
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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