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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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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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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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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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Robinhood Wallet is Now Available to Android Users Globally

Robinhood

Disclosures: * Statista Data from March 11, 2024: Market share of mobile operating systems worldwide from 2009 to 2023, by quarter [link] ** In eligible countries. Download the app to get started today or visit our Help Center for more information. a limited company organized in the Cayman Islands, and other third-party providers.

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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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The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection

The Pragmatic Engineer

The company was founded in 2009 by two brothers who had a vision of creating the perfect city bike. At first, the company blamed the pause of sales on a bug in their system, then confirmed that pausing sales was intentional. The company started making waves in 2017, when it raised a €4M seed round.