The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 22, 2023

In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. I’d love to get a glimpse into the game development world, and how it compares to the software engineering approaches at tech companies.” To get the full issues, twice a week, subscribe here.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 12, 2023

Pollen was an events tech startup founded in 2015, which raised more than $200M in funding and employed about 600 people by 2022. Much of Big Tech and some well-funded startups belong in this tier. My take is that Pollen generally paid well for tech, but did not target the very top of their respective markets.

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Engineering at Meta

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast , Meta engineer Pascal Hartig ( @passy ) is joined by Amethyst Reese, a production engineer at Meta, to discuss all things Python at Meta. It powers Instagram’s backend and plays an important role in our configuration systems, as well as much of our AI work.

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In this episode Eric Sammer discusses why more companies are including real-time capabilities in their products and the ways that Decodable makes it faster and easier. It’s the only true SQL streaming database built from the ground up to meet the needs of modern data products. With Materialize, you can!

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This has led to the broad adoption of data products being the delivery mechanism for information. In this episode Ranjith Raghunath shares his thoughts on how to build a strategy for the development, delivery, and evolution of data products. Can you describe what is encompassed by the idea of a data product strategy?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 12, 2024

In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. This is how Brooks put it: “Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. (.) Progress does not. ” The administrator. The editor.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 30, 2023

The company is under big financial pressure and its cash reserves could run out in 12-18 months at the current burn rate Stock is down by close to 90% in 18 months Founders who put company culture first seem to be withdrawing We covered more on the difference between “peacetime” and “wartime” at tech companies.

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Get all of the details and try the new product today at dataengineeringpodcast.com/rudderstack This episode is brought to you by Datafold – a testing automation platform for data engineers that finds data quality issues before the code and data are deployed to production. Check out the agenda and register today at Neo4j.com/NODES.

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Get all of the details and try the new product today at dataengineeringpodcast.com/rudderstack This episode is brought to you by Datafold – a testing automation platform for data engineers that finds data quality issues before the code and data are deployed to production. With Materialize, you can!

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 6, 2023

This regulation impacts tech companies with a sizable presence in these regions, and is especially relevant for Big Tech. Today, the site tracker 2,000 tech companies and startups. work and what is the tech stack behind it? Companies have started to comply by listing expected pay upfront. ” How does Comprehensive.io

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The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Bun showcases how the ‘innovator’s dilemma’ manifests in a tech ecosystem. The dilemma is this: a large, market-leading company has some motivation to innovate, but also a strong disincentive as well, because innovation risks undermining its existing products.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In their datasets product when looking at a dataset you can full text search or see distributions (with bars at the top of columns) and this is powered with DuckDB. Actually this might be the final tool that will break the wall between tech teams and data teams. Lastly they pre-compute statistics on datasets with DuckDB.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 3, 2023

If you’re not yet a full subscriber, you missed this week’s deepdive: The 2023 tech market, as seen by hiring managers. Use cases for Firebase Dynamic Links This product is powerful and has many uses. Since Google launched the product in 2016 , it’s been viewed as a stable product within the Firebase product suite.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Splunk has been here for a while providing a all-in-one platform for tech observability by ingesting logs and events to provide insights on a tech stack. Fresh money will help them to add AI capabilities to the product and increasing monitoring capabilities. Secoda raises a $14m Series A. Motherduck raises $52.5m

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Splunk has been here for a while providing a all-in-one platform for tech observability by ingesting logs and events to provide insights on a tech stack. Fresh money will help them to add AI capabilities to the product and increasing monitoring capabilities. Secoda raises a $14m Series A. Motherduck raises $52.5m

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The Pragmatic Engineer

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Apple was the first Big Tech giant to mandate a proper return to the office and back in September 2022, this initiative was in full swing, being rolled out in the US and with 3 days per week in the office mandated in the UK. ” Apple has started to check badge access to verify if people are in the office enough.

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Snowflake

APRIL 8, 2024

The list of Top 10 semi-finalists is a perfect example: we have use cases for cybersecurity, gen AI, food safety, restaurant chain pricing, quantitative trading analytics, geospatial data, sales pipeline measurement, marketing tech and healthcare. SignalFlare.ai

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

These rounds are often invested in an idea, without the validation of a product-market fit. And venture capital investment in tech also soared from that point. Could this controversy be an opening for smaller companies to poach Big Tech engineers? While less startup funding – and fewer job openings!

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

is relating to the present — not all companies are in the same present as opposed — the term creates an opposition between 2 worlds, creating something we always like in tech: a debate between 2 kind of technologies. Especially if you want to enter the Fortune 500 where they actually use old tech?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 11, 2023

Prometheus can be self-hosted, but several cloud providers also offer managed Prometheus services: both Google Cloud and AWS have this service in production, while Azure has it in preview. If you need to display or dive into metrics or alerts, it’s the go-to tool, and widely used across tech companies.

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Pinterest Engineering

MAY 13, 2024

Since then, it has served as a foundational infrastructure building block in our tech stack, powering a number of in-house and open-source systems including our graph service (Zen), wide column store (UMS), monitoring storage (OpenTSDB), metrics reporting (Pinalytics), transactional DB (Omid/Sparrow), indexed datastore ( Ixia ), etc.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. Production in all the smelting potlines ground to a halt at the stroke of midnight when the computers shut down simultaneously and without warning.  However, by then, the damage had been done.

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Snowflake

MAY 1, 2024

Gaining insight into the needs and perspectives of these NYSE-listed companies would offer great value to the SFS team on multiple levels, from product roadmap considerations, technology implications for AI and NLP, operational implications and more. SignalFlare.ai SignalFlare.ai

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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 two out of seven topics from today’s full issue on The Man Behind the Big Tech Comics. The topic will also be more lighthearted: Big Tech, Twitter, and comics.

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LinkedIn Engineering

JANUARY 11, 2024

For engineering leaders, the focus in 2024 will be on how to best harness the potential of this technology and navigate its associated challenges - from rewriting their playbooks and establishing the right technical building blocks, to identifying the talent needed to fully leverage AI in their products and processes.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 10, 2023

In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. Learnerbly is an L&D platform hundreds of tech companies use, as it makes administering these budgets much simpler — and it’s also a lot easier for people to request books, courses, or newsletters.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The observations on how Big Tech hiring will slow down have since been validated, with Meta not only laying off in November, but also rescinding offers in January 2023, and Amazon doing the same. I collated the total number of reported layoffs across tech companies through 2022 to date, using the layoffs tracker site, Layoffs.fyi.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A BCA is the minimum certification or degree requirement you must have to break into the tech world. This is the best course for people who still want to work in the tech sector but do not strictly want a tech job. Learn Product Management Product managers are individuals in charge of a product for its entire product life cycle.

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Cloudera

MARCH 25, 2024

Get to Know Jess: A Seasoned Leader in Tech Communications and Branding Coming to Cloudera with nearly three decades of experience in tech communications and branding, Jess is a leader and a visionary on all things storytelling. Why have you been drawn toward tech companies throughout your career?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The VP of Product, Directors, Head of Data Science all let go. Babylon Health (healthcare tech: schedule doctors from your device): let go of ~100 people from a staff of around 1,500. Productboard (SaaS for creating product roadmaps): 20% of people let go, about 100 people. November 2022 16 November Hopin.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

French public market salary grid in data (compared to software engineer) ( source ) The public sector released their salary grid for all tech workers — this is in French but scroll to the last page of the PDF to have the table We have 4 experiences buckets <5, <10, >10 and >20 years.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 19, 2023

Jargon masks partial understanding I can answer why I felt uneasy about asking what a term like idempotency means: it's because I was admitting that I don't understand a part of tech jargon. Or does it? If so: gather alternatives, and compare them. Avoid following the crowd, when you have not cleared #1, #2, and #3.

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Knowledge Hut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As a seasoned software developer with almost a decade of experience in the tech industry, I vividly remember the excitement of taking my first web development course. Your tech adventure awaits – let's get started! We can learn from home at our own pace, making it accessible to tech enthusiasts worldwide.

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LinkedIn Engineering

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Before joining LinkedIn full-time, I worked with Adobe as a Product Intern for six months, where my projects revolved around the core libraries in the C++ language. When I started my role here, I had to shift to using a different tech stack: Java for the backend and JavaScript framework for the frontend. EngCareers.

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 17, 2024

It is related to lean and just-in-time JIT production, where it is used as a scheduling system to indicate what to produce, when, and how much. The beauty of Kanban is, it can even be used at a personal level to enhance your personal productivity by managing work and personal responsibilities efficiently. How does Kanban System work?

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Lyft Engineering

APRIL 24, 2024

Business acumen and domain knowledge on specific product areas is critical as well. Some recent examples can be found in our tech blog: reinforcement learning and structural causal modeling. An oddball in the past offerings by Tech Learning is the series titled “How to Build a Rideshare Company.” production-level code.

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