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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Joshua is currently VP of Product & Strategy at VMware, a cloud computing and virtualization technology company. Joshua also writes an excellent Substack newsletter about how to design products which customers love, how to operate live services at scale, grow and optimize your technology orgs, and the history of the tech industry.

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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.” We covered how ChatGPT works, under the hood.

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Since then, all Cloud providers have expanded their availability, and the price of Cloud compute has dropped due to competition and technological progress. Codeanywhere : one of the earliest cloud IDEs, founded in 2013 Daytona was founded in 2023, and its founders are the cofounders of Codeanywhere.

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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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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.

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UK Government: From cloud first to cloud appropriate?

Cloudera

Since 2013 the UK Government’s flagship ‘Cloud First’ policy has been at the forefront of enabling departments to shed their legacy IT architecture in order to meaningfully embrace digital transformation.

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

This was around 2013, and EC2 was one of the hottest services at Amazon. After all, we already  had open source technology to use – M3 – and we also had a clear path on what we wanted to build, similar to the roadmap the observability team at Uber used to have.  But we didn’t have one of these!

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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.