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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Data source: this Gist StackOverflow has not seen so few questions asked monthly since 2009! In some ways, it feels to me that StackOverflow is the victim of LLMs ingesting data on its own Q&A site, and providing a much better interface for developers to solve programming problems with.

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

He was learning to code, and needed help in a programming competition, because he needed a team of three. In 2009, the tech scene in Australia was not as vibrant as it is today: Atlassian was still small and Canva didn’t exist. From learning to code in Australia, to working in Silicon Valley How did I learn to code?

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Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem

The Pragmatic Engineer

Smart choices include using a more performant JavaScript engine than Node does (Bun uses Apple’s JavaScriptCore, while Node uses Google’s V8,) and using the low-level programming language Zig. In 2009, it was revolutionary and the majority of the JavaScript backend development community moved to this ecosystem.

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Top 11 Programming Languages for Data Science

Knowledge Hut

Data science is a multidisciplinary field that requires a broad set of skills from mathematics and statistics to programming, machine learning, and data visualization. However, data scientists need to know certain programming languages and must have a specific set of skills. It can be daunting for someone new to data science.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Operating on the principles of packet switching, it queued up data and subdivided it into 128-byte packets programmed with a destination and address. The computer sent the packets along whichever route would move it fastest to a destination.”

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Best Data Science Programming Languages

Knowledge Hut

Data science is a multidisciplinary field that requires a broad set of skills from mathematics and statistics to programming, machine learning, and data visualization. However, data scientists need to know certain programming languages and must have a specific set of skills. It can be daunting for someone new to data science.

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Top 10 DevOps Programming Languages That You Must Know

Knowledge Hut

Programming languages act as one of the most important tools in DevOps. To be successful in DeOps and achieve Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), making the right choice of a programming language is very essential. Go is an amazing choice of programming language for DevOps as it offers excellent performance.