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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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Using Emerging Technologies to Address Data Lake Challenges

Hevo

The term “Data Lake” was first introduced by James Dixon in 2010 as a form of storage to cope with evolving data needs due to advancements in IT and IoT. The close of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century saw an influx of new digital tools like the mobile phone and smart […]

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Top 7 Six Sigma Companies With Successful Implementation

Knowledge Hut

iSixSigma created a list of the "Best places to work for Six Sigma Professionals" in 2010 and McKesson Corp got it on there. USA), the recipient of BSI's 2010 Oil and Gas Supply Chain Excellence Award, exceeded financial benefits of $500 million in 2010 thanks to its Lean Six Sigma initiatives. Chevron Corp.

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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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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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A Prequel to Data Mesh

Towards Data Science

Image by the author 2004 to 2010 — The elephant enters the room New wave of applications emerged — Social Media, Software observability, etc. Image by the author 2010 to 2020 - The Cloud Data Warehouse Enterprises now wanted quick data analytics without yesterday’s constraints of flexibility, processing power and scale.