The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 12, 2023

Pollen was an events tech startup founded in 2015, which raised more than $200M in funding and employed about 600 people by 2022. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you also missed this week’s deep-dive on Becoming a Fractional CTO. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jesse Anderson

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Google’s 2015 paper Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems highlighted the fact that machine learning isn’t just the creation of models. For the majority of companies, that was the only title working on data problems at scale.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As an example, we looked at Moments , the photo sharing app Meta launched in 2015 and eventually shut down in 2019, and how SCARF can help with the deprecation process through its workflow management capabilities.

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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

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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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 7, 2024

Create courses — For all my pro career I've written courses—I teach since 2015—but I've never really created something for people online. It's time. Release 2 products — I want to release 2 products that can live by themselves next year, one around the blog, the other one we will see.

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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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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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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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Engineering at Meta

JUNE 11, 2024

MobileConfig has been in production since 2015 and serves some of the world’s most widely used apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. These remotely managed configuration parameters serve various purposes such as A/B testing, feature rollout, and app personalization.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 5, 2024

Now, Stephanie devotes a great amount of her free time to helping people in Nepal through group volunteer work.

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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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Cloudera

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Flink was launched in 2015 as the world’s first open source streaming-first distributed stream processing engine and has since grown to rival Spark in terms of popularity. Cloudera perspective: Cloudera began providing support and building tooling for the Kafka ecosystem in 2015 and has developed stable enterprise solutions.

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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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Precisely

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

billion in economic activity for the region, a 40% bump compared to the last time it was hosted there in 2015. This is especially true for businesses close to the event, and we wanted to see how locations around State Farm Stadium were impacted. The 2023 Super Bowl in Glendale generated $1.3

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