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The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008, but better than 2002

The Pragmatic Engineer

In 2021, an impressive 67% of graduates got a software engineering job within 8 weeks, and in 2022 this number was 74% and close to 100% after 6 months, with a $124K average base salary. Here’s his take: 'This 2023 downturn now is far worse than 2008 but not nearly as bad as 2002, which felt apocalyptic.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

  To succeed as a software engineer, you needed to be a jack-of-all-trades. We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. Our deployments were initially manual. Avoiding downtime was nerve-wracking, and the notion of a 'rollback' was as much a relief as a technical process. 

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The Chaos Data Engineering Manifesto

Towards Data Science

The Chaos Data-Engineering Manifesto Another lesson we can learn from software engineers: break stuff to make it more reliable. Of course, you can’t just copy and paste software engineering concepts straight into data engineering playbooks. A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. Data is different.

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Detailed Guide on How to Become a.Net Developer

Knowledge Hut

Launched by Microsoft in 2002,NET is a developmental ecosystem used for engineering interfaces. General job responsibilities for a cloud developer are: Testing, designing, and building cloud-native applications on Azure Cloud Platform Proficiency in Business Analysis, Software Engineering Leadership, c. What Is.NET?

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The Chaos Data Engineering Manifesto: Spare The Rod, Spoil Prod

Monte Carlo

Of course, you can’t just copy and paste software engineering concepts straight into data engineering playbooks. Consider this manifesto then a proposal for how to take the proven concepts of chaos engineering and apply them to the eccentric world of data. Data is different. Is it well documented?

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Top 10 Successful Data Analytics Company in 2023

Edureka

5) Vention Vention is a data analytics and consulting firm that was founded in 2002. Oxagile specializes in custom software development, with a focus on multi-platform video streaming, AdTech, EdTech, and big data solutions. The company is headquartered in New York City, and it has offices in London, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

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What Is AWS Cloud Computing?

U-Next

The internal infrastructure that Amazon.com constructed to conduct its online retail activities served as the foundation for the initial web services that Amazon.com Web Services offered in 2002. The business was rapidly expanding and they were hiring new software engineers simultaneously.