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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

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. With my team, we built the basics of what is now called AWS Systems Manager.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

If you had a continuous deployment system up and running around 2010, you were ahead of the pack: but today it’s considered strange if your team would not have this for things like web applications.  We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. and hand-rolled C -code.

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Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem

The Pragmatic Engineer

In 2009, it was revolutionary and the majority of the JavaScript backend development community moved to this ecosystem. The dilemma is this: a large, market-leading company has some motivation to innovate, but also a strong disincentive as well, because innovation risks undermining its existing products.

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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

Wordpress is the most popular content management system (CMS),  estimated  to power around 43% of all websites; a staggering number! in 2009, and sold the company for $8.5B This article was originally published a week ago, on 3 October 2024, in The Pragmatic Engineer. In the other corner: WP Engine.  A

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Google looked over the expanse of the growing internet and realized they’d need scalable systems. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. Apache Spark came in 2009 and gave a unified batch and streaming engine. We lacked a scalable pub/sub system.

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Recommender Systems: Behind the Scenes of Machine-Learning-Based Personalization

AltexSoft

You’ll learn about the types of recommender systems, their differences, strengths, weaknesses, and real-life examples. Personalization and recommender systems in a nutshell. Primarily developed to help users deal with a large range of choices they encounter, recommender systems come into play. Amazon, Booking.com) and.

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Essential Guide to Clearing PRINCE2 Examination

Knowledge Hut

Exam Shield will verify if your microphone, webcam, system configuration, power backup and network connectivity support the exam. Some additional information Certified PRINCE2 Practitioners ( in the 2009 version) can re - sit for an exam based on the 2017 or 6 th edition and get into the subscription model.