The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

Source: Dealroom In 2022, Angel rounds were at the lowest by cumulative value since 2015, which is even worse than we’ve seen in the US. I turned to Dealroom for a sense of the funding round there. Here’s how Angel rounds in Europe are doing: Angel investments in Europe. Seed investments in Europe.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Going into 2015, the app’s success would trigger what we refer to as a feature explosion. 2015: An architectural inflection point By 2015, Meta had doubled down on its “Mobile First” mantra , and the FBiOS codebase saw a meteoric rise in the number of daily contributors. And that presented its own set of unique challenges.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 29, 2023

Google Domains grew to be something like the 4th largest registrar in the world, with much higher margins, and yet we’re the ones still committed to this work and our customers for the long run.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I joined in 2015, when there were a couple hundred engineers at Uber, and the infra team was made up of about 50 people. ” It was a pitch that was hard to say no to! Rob was right that Uber would be crazy. It was at Uber where we ended up building M3 : Uber’s open source, large-scale metrics platform.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 9, 2023

In 2015, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a rule which mandates publicly traded US companies to disclose their compensation details. We cover two out of seven topics from today’s subscriber-only deep-dive on Compensation at publicly traded tech companies. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 25, 2023

Both Llama2-7b-chat and Code Llama-7b-instruct get it wrong in a silly way—it’s impossible for a row in the concert table to have both year = 2014 and year = 2015 at the same time, so their proposed queries will incorrectly produce no results. This query is more difficult because there are many ways to get it wrong.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 20, 2023

I started an accelerator with my friend at Highland Capital in 2015. Raising funding How did you get the funding, and how much was it? I feel that I got lucky raising the first round of funding: it was surprisingly smooth. So I did: in the summer of 2018, I took leave from Carnegie Mellon, where I was a professor by then.

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Scott Logic

MARCH 19, 2025

A study by Nordea Equity Research reports that between 2012 and 2015, organisations with high ESG ratings outperform the lowest rated organisations by as much as 40%. They rely on this insight to satisfy their investors and stakeholders by ensuring that they provide good investment opportunities, with low risk.

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Knowledge Hut

JUNE 25, 2024

The first edition was launched on February 25, 2015, and the second edition was issued on May 3, 2019. The first version was launched in August 2012, and the second edition was updated in December 2015 for Python 3. This book was released on 14 April 2015. Readers gave this book a rating of 4.36 This book is rated 3.91

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 10, 2019

By Adam Wang , Andy Swan , Raja Senapati , Shilpa Jois , Anjali Chablani , Deepa Krishnan , Vidya Sundaram , and Casey Wilms You can also check out highlights from our past events: May 2019 , November 2018 , March 2018 , August 2017 , January 2017 , May 2016 , November 2015 , March 2015 , February 2014 & August 2014.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In 2015, Spring Cloud Netflix reached 1.0. Governator for dependency injection with lifecycle management and Archaius for configuration. All of these Netflix libraries and systems were open-sourced around 2012 and are still used by the community to this day.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And the last time we did something meaningful together was during the Nepal Earthquake in 2015. I did the Everest Base Camp trek in 2015 and fortunately for me, I left Nepal 5 days before the major earthquake. This is such a momentous experience, what motivated you to sign up for such an intense physical challenge?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 13, 2023

Image source: Bicycling magazine This change made a major difference : “In 2015 we began shipping our bikes to the USA. To avoid rough handling during delivery, the company came up with an innovative idea: package the bike like a TV box : This is not a TV, but a VanMoof bike. Just don’t tell the carriers!

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 10, 2024

PharmEasy Founded by Dharmil Sheth, Dhaval Shah, and Mikhil Innani in the year 2015, PharmEasy is a Mumbai-based startup focusing on the health care, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical industries. As the field of artificial intelligence is a widely developing subject in the future, Skit.ai is also expected to grow just as fast. billion.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 20, 2019

By Abi Seshadri and Rachel Rivera You can also check out highlights from our past events: November 2018 , March 2018 , August 2017 , January 2017 , May 2016 , November 2015 , March 2015 , February 2014 & August 2014. Thanks to all the teams who put together a great round of hacks in 24 hours. Netflix Studio Hack Day?—?May

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I talked with Sketch employees to find out what happened to the company which enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity in around 2015. Just weeks after Figma was sold for $20B to Adobe, the design platform Sketch laid off 30% of its staff. Why did Sketch change its approach from sustainable growth to hyper-growth?

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ThoughtSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I like to use a surfing analogy that I first heard from a VC in 2015. There are really three core things for me when it comes to evaluating career opportunities: People, culture and technology. First, you need an incredible product, which is the surfboard.

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

2015 – 2021) What are your thoughts on the ongoing utility/benefits of projects such as ScyllaDB, particularly in light of the most recent release? 2015 – 2021) What are your thoughts on the ongoing utility/benefits of projects such as ScyllaDB, particularly in light of the most recent release?

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Knowledge Hut

MAY 20, 2024

69% of recruiters expect competition to increase in 2015. Google’s Google+ is becoming more popular at a breath-taking speed. Facebook has exclusively opened access to recruiters for this process.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 17, 2022

init started in 2015, and your first episode of Data Engineering was published January 14, 2017. init started in 2015, and your first episode of Data Engineering was published January 14, 2017. Now I’ll hand it off to Joe… Joe’s Notes You do a lot of podcasts. Walk us through the start of these podcasts.

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Scott Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While Swift and Rust are both quite new languages (2014 and 2015 respectively), Zig is even younger, having emerged in 2016, which makes it one year older than WebAssembly (which had its first MVP release in 2017). However, despite having numerous commits over many years, this PR hasn’t been merged.

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ProjectPro

DECEMBER 2, 2015

News on Hadoop – November 2015 2nd Generation Hadoop has become the most critical cloud applications platform, Nov 2, 2015, TechRepublic.com Hadoop version of 1.0 Source: [link] ) Cask plans big for Hadoop, raises $20 million to improve Hadoop Technology, Nov 5, 2015, WSJ.D

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 30, 2024

Despite being written in 2015, I believe this paper’s contribution will never be old. Note : The paper was published in 2015, so some details may be changed or updated now; if you have any feedback or information that can supplement my blog, feel free to comment. See you next blog!

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Maxime Beauchemin

MARCH 8, 2021

Since the original creation in 2015 at an Airbnb hackathon, the project has come a very long way. More specifically around business intelligence, Apache Superset has matured to a level where it’s a very compelling choice over the proprietary solution. Here are some recent highlights: Reached the major milestone of 1.0

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 12, 2019

Author: Andy Glover Since releasing Spinnaker to the open source community in 2015 , the platform has flourished with the addition of new cloud providers, triggers, pipeline stages, and much more. Myriad new features, improvements, and innovations have been added by an ever growing, actively engaged community.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2015, OCBC began a multi-phased initiative with Cloudera focused on giving customers access to its banking services through an easy, convenient user interface that delivered targeted and tailored products and services.

Banking 81

Banking IT Insurance Data Lake 81

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Mike Barlow, Author “Learning to Love Data Science” (O’Reilly 2015) and Co-Author “Smart Cities, Smart Future” (Wiley 2018), Cumulus Partners. You can register your attendance here. the Data Lifecycle. Nick Heudecker, VP Analyst, Gartner. the Data Lifecycle.

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Banking Medical Government Data Security 98

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Since 2015, they have been successfully fighting money laundering and wider economic threats. It’s a collaboration across the Financial Conduct Authority, over 40 financial institutions, Cifas, a not-for-profit fraud prevention membership organization, and law enforcement agencies. Solution partners are of course critical to fraud prevention.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 12, 2024

We have been openly designing our GPU hardware platforms beginning with our Big Sur platform in 2015. Combined with other in-house innovations like our Open Rack power and rack architecture, Grand Teton allows us to build new clusters in a way that is purpose-built for current and future applications at Meta.

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ProjectPro

APRIL 17, 2015

billion in 2010 to $17 billion in 2015 with estimates that the Big Data Analytics services market is growing 6 times faster than the entire IT sector. IDC estimates that cloud based big data analytics is expected to grow 3 times faster than the on-premise solutions in 2015.

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Scott Logic

DECEMBER 14, 2024

I was also very happy to find an AoC dataset on Hugging Face going all the way back to 2015. The only part of my test suite that is a little unusual is the scoring step, which executes the LLM response, checking against the AoC answers.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Since its inception in 2015, Generation has supported more than 68,000 graduates across 43 professions and 17 countries. “Our program will accelerate democratizing employment prospects across the technology sector, drive sustainable careers and economic growth opportunities.”.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 11, 2023

Amazon is the most represented one with 33, then Google with 30 logos, then Microsoft with 21.

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Netflix Tech

JULY 1, 2019

We then re-ran the automation and still saw the peaks but in the process we discovered that the issue seemed to only present itself on devices running a version of our SDK from 2015. The manual testing hadn’t caught it because we had only been manually testing surface cache on more recent versions of the SDK.

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Yelp Engineering

AUGUST 6, 2024

The first commit was on August 20th, 2013, and the first public commit was on October 22nd, 2015. This year, PaaSTA (Yelp’s platform-as-a-service, which we use to manage all of the applications running on our infrastructure) turns eleven years old! That’s over half of Yelp’s.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Our table storage since we first launched in 2015 is actually a fully managed table format, implemented on top of object storage, similar to what the market may know today from open source as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake.

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Cloudera

JUNE 2, 2022

Since 2015, the Cloudera DataFlow team has been helping the largest enterprise organizations in the world adopt Apache NiFi as their enterprise standard data movement tool.

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