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Migrating in-place from PostgreSQL to MySQL

Yelp Engineering

It was acquired along with Seatme in 2013, and is a Django service and webapp. The Yelp Reservations service (yelp_res) is the service that powers reservations on Yelp. It powers the reservation backend and logic for Yelp Guest Manager, our iPad app for restaurants, and handles diner and partner flows that create reservations.

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

A first, smaller wave of these stories included Magic.dev raising $100M in funding from Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub from 2018-2021,) and Daniel Gross (cofounder of search engine Cue which Apple acquired in 2013,) to build a “superhuman software engineer.”

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Snowflake To Acquire Ponder, Boosting Python Capabilities In the Data Cloud

Snowflake

To learn more about Snowpark and working with Python in Snowflake, visit [link] ¹ From 2013- 2023, based on survey results from Stack Overflow. ² From October 2023 based on internal data. The post Snowflake To Acquire Ponder, Boosting Python Capabilities In the Data Cloud appeared first on Snowflake.

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Codeanywhere : one of the earliest cloud IDEs, founded in 2013 Daytona was founded in 2023, and its founders are the cofounders of Codeanywhere. Codesandbox started out as a web IDE in around 2018, but expanded since. Coder : one of the few vendors that offers only a self-hosted CDE platform.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

The full article additionally covers: The struggle for scale at Amazon and the birth of SOA (late 1990s) Virtualization: the new frontier (1999-2002) Cloud computing: A paradigm shift (2006-2009) Containers and Kubernetes: reshaping the backend landscape (2013-2019) Today’s backend ecosystem: defining “modern” Envisioning the future (..)

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The state of startup funding

The Pragmatic Engineer

year low) Series A & B investments are back at 2020 levels (almost a 3-year low) Series C & E  investments are back at 2018 levels (a 5-year low) Series E+ are back at 2020 levels, but on an upwards trend Exits are at 2013 levels (a 10-year low!) In the US: Angel and seed investments are back at 2020 levels (a 2.5-year

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.