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In 2009, it was revolutionary and the majority of the JavaScript backend development community moved to this ecosystem. It begins with a clean state, and can ship something that works for, say, 90% of existing Node projects, and break the remaining 10%. In the case of the Node ecosystem, Node is the innovator.

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In 2009, the tech scene in Australia was not as vibrant as it is today: Atlassian was still small and Canva didn’t exist. Microsoft In 2009, not many US tech companies were hiring, as the sector was still recovering from the 2008 crash. They called it Office 365, and in 2010, this was a really exciting project to work on.

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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

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  Heavy development investment:  Automattic – a VC-funded company founded by Matt Mullenweg – is the largest contributor to Wordpress, paying  more than 100 staff  to work full-time on the project. in 2009, and sold the company for $8.5B In the other corner: WP Engine.  A

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In 2017, Gartner predicted that 85%of the data-based projects would fail and deliver the desired results. Build an Awesome Job Winning Data Engineering Projects Portfoli o Data Engineer: Job Growth in Future The demand for data engineers has been on a sharp rise since 2016. Why do companies hire a Data Engineer?

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Excellent presentation of data-driven insights is an indispensable step in any data science or machine learning project since the latter involves modelling to fit the data and requires revealing hidden patterns from data. For this task, you can replicate the scatter plot shown below for the popular Iris dataset available at [link].

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This pioneering project was conceived during the Cold War between the US and the USSR. This project’s advancements laid the groundwork for many technologies still with us today, seven decades later. ARPANET was the world’s first major foray into networked computing. were in english only.

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why knowledge of TensorFlow is so valuable in the Artificial Intelligence domain let us get started with a few cool TensorFlow projects idea that. To help you with that, we have cherry-picked a couple of easy TensorFlow projects that should be a walk in the park with just a little effort. Claimed to block over 99.9

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