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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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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Joshua is currently VP of Product & Strategy at VMware, a cloud computing and virtualization technology company. Joshua also writes an excellent Substack newsletter about how to design products which customers love, how to operate live services at scale, grow and optimize your technology orgs, and the history of the tech industry.

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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. We had the technology ready in the form of the M3 project, which was a massive achievement by itself.

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How Snowflake Helps Confront Data Challenges and Ensure Program Integrity in Healthcare and Human Services

Snowflake

With Medicaid being the primary program providing comprehensive nationwide healthcare coverage for low-income Americans, over 90 million people are expected to lose enrollment and become uninsured. IESs are the technological backbone for U.S. million to nearly 95 million. Medicaid isn’t the only agency facing immense challenges.

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

They were the first companies to commercialize open source big data technologies and pushed the marketing and commercialization of Hadoop. Hadoop was hard to program, and Apache Hive came along in 2010 to add SQL. Apache Spark came in 2009 and gave a unified batch and streaming engine. Some people blamed the technologies.

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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.

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Stay Sharp During the Covid-19 Lockdown

Knowledge Hut

While it has been largely accepted as a practice within the technology industry, it comes with its pros and cons. However, they can find it harder to communicate and engage with others about the latest technologies. You can continue to stay industry-relevant and connected with the technology development world even while remote.