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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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Cyber Security Laws and Regulations of 2024

Knowledge Hut

California Assembly Bill 1950 (2004): This regulation was passed by the California State Legislature back in 2004 and made a requirement for companies to maintain a reasonable level of cybersecurity, along with extending those security practices to their business partners to maintain an acceptable standard of cybersecurity.

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20 Best Cyber Security Books for Beginners and Professionals

Knowledge Hut

Published : October 8, 2004 by No Starch Press 7. Published : May 25, 2004 by O'Reilly Media 8. A comprehensive look at current programming and hacking techniques is presented in the book. Even better, the second edition includes a Live CD with a complete Linux environment.

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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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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

They created MapReduce and GFS in 2004. In the beginning, there was Google. Google looked over the expanse of the growing internet and realized they’d need scalable systems. They published the papers for them in the same year. Doug Cutting took those papers and created Apache Hadoop in 2005.

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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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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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