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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

The Pragmatic Engineer

This project helped onboard me to the software, its structure, its build, and our issue tracking and version control workflows. My first project was supporting i18n (internationalization) in the app. In 2004, I was hired by ISO-NE, a non-profit that manages the electric grid in New England.

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

They created MapReduce and GFS in 2004. There was (and still is) an overall problem in the industry because most projects failed to get into production. Big data projects were given to data scientists and data warehouse teams, where the projects subsequently failed. In the beginning, there was Google.

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How to Use Apache Iceberg in CDP’s Open Lakehouse

Cloudera

Exploratory data science and visualization: Access Iceberg tables through auto-discovered CDW connection in CML projects. 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.

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Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?

The Pragmatic Engineer

A month ago when analyzing the layoffs, I noted: “Profit centers seem to have been impacted far less than cost centers and experimental projects. (.) 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.

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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. Built-In Framework TestComplete has several built-in sample projects for desktop, web, and mobile test automation, to help you get up and running quicker than ever before. Selenium has no built-in framework ready to use.

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A Prequel to Data Mesh

Towards Data Science

My personal take on justifying the existence of Data Mesh A senior stakeholder at one my projects mentioned that they wanted to decentralise their data platform architecture and democratise data across the organisation. When I heard the words ‘decentralised data architecture’, I was left utterly confused at first!

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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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