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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

The Pragmatic Engineer

In 2004, I was hired by ISO-NE, a non-profit that manages the electric grid in New England. Sometimes it’s impossible to do this work in a way that delivers value until it’s done, so lots of commitment is required.

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Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Two decades ago – when Google was still a smaller company, employing only 3,000 people in 2004: 60x fewer than today’s headcount of 186,000. Looking at it in a hard-headed way: Google won’t lose so much because its brand is so high-profile in the tech community.

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How to Use Apache Iceberg in CDP’s Open Lakehouse

Cloudera

5 2004 7129270. Our imported flights table now contains the same data as the existing external hive table and we can quickly check the row counts by year to confirm: year _c1. 1 2008 7009728. 2 2007 7453215. 3 2006 7141922. 4 2005 7140596. 6 2003 6488540. 7 2002 5271359. 8 2001 5967780. 9 2000 5683047. …. In-place partition evolution .

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A Prequel to Data Mesh

Towards Data Science

Image by the author 2004 to 2010 — The elephant enters the room New wave of applications emerged — Social Media, Software observability, etc. Business units required data relevant to their analysis. Result: Companies started to sell pre-configured data warehouses as products. The concept of `Data Marts` was introduced.

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Is Aws Certification Worth It?

Knowledge Hut

Since its launch in 2004, AWS has helped businesses replace high infrastructure cost with low variable expenses. Amazon started offering web services, also known as cloud computing, in the form of IT infrastructure services for public use in 2004. To progress your career in Cloud Computing, enroll in certification Cloud Computing.

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How to design a dbt model from scratch

Towards Data Science

These things have to be constantly iterated after all… Resources [1] Agile Manifesto. Principles behind the Agile Manifesto. Retrieved July 1, 2023, from [link] [2] Design Council. Framework for Innovation. Retrieved July 1, 2023, from [link] [3] Holistics. Kimball’s Dimensional Data Modeling. Retrieved July 1, 2023, from [link] [4] Peter Brook.

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Selenium vs Testcomplete: A Quick Comparison

Knowledge Hut

History of Selenium:- Selenium was developed by Jason Huggins in 2004 at ThoughtWorks in Chicago. Currently, Selenium 4 is about to launch and the alpha version is already launched as of this article is being written. Later it was made open source and it has become a more powerful and popular tool for web application automation.