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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

The Pragmatic Engineer

It’s tougher to be an engineering manager, than it has been during the 2010-2022 period, that’s for sure. This could simply be a consequence  of higher interest rates , teams growing less, and more pressure on managers. Read it here

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The available compute power of laptops and personal computers no longer increases as it did prior to 2010. Since around 2010, there’s been a boom in Cloud computing. AWS launched in 2006, Azure in 2010, and GCP launched its first region in 2015. But the most recent 10 years suggest this is no longer the case.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

It’s fascinating how what is considered “modern” for backend practices keep evolving over time; back in the 2000s, virtualizing your servers was the cutting-edge thing to do; while around 2010 if you onboarded to the cloud, you were well ahead of the pack.

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7 Resources to Becoming a Data Engineer

KDnuggets

An estimated 8,650% growth of the volume of Data to 175 zetabytes from 2010 to 2025 has created an enormous need for Data Engineers to build an organization's big data platform to be fast, efficient and scalable.

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Data Pruning MNIST: How I Hit 99% Accuracy Using Half the Data

Towards Data Science

I intend to continue exploring the space, please reach out if you find this interestinghappy to connect and talk more:) Im a Staff Data Engineer working on an Applied AI Research team building foundational time seriesmodels. If youd like to follow my work work or get in touch head to myblog. References LeCun, Y., Cortes, C., & Burges, C.

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How Games Typically Get Built

The Pragmatic Engineer

I met Tommy in 2010 at Scott Logic, a UK software consultancy where we were both software developers on neighbouring desks. Back in 2010, I was working as a software engineer in the banking sector, and Gergely and I used to work in the same office.

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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

The Pragmatic Engineer

Until 2010, Google used a concept called slotting when hiring senior engineers. In just 6 months, Meta’s valuation went from its lowest in 7 years, to trending up to an all-time-high valuation. What can we take from this dramatic turnaround? Analysis The old concept of ‘slotting’ at Google.