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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

The Pragmatic Engineer

From 2018, StackOverflow drew more criticism for its moderation policies. However, from around June 2020, the site saw a slow, steady decline in questions asked. ChatGPT merely sped up the decline in the number of questions.

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The London Kafka Summit 2018 Call for Papers is Open!

Confluent

The call for papers for Kafka Summit London 2018 now open until December 1. Submit proposals for how you’ve used Apache Kafka.

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The segment really took off around 2018, although Cloud9 – which AWS acquired in 2017 – was founded in 2010. Codesandbox started out as a web IDE in around 2018, but expanded since. CDE vendors: a definite trend With more than 20 players in this space, let’s begin with a timeline of when the products launched.

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Anomalo for Advanced Data Quality

Snowflake

Anomalo was founded in 2018 by two Instacart alumni, Elliot Shmukler and Jeremy Stanley. While working together, they bonded over their shared passion for data. After experiencing numerous data quality challenges, they created Anomalo, a no-code platform for validating and documenting data warehouse information.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Uber’s engineering level changes

The Pragmatic Engineer

For example, in my 200-engineer organization called “Money,” we had 2 Staff engineers (L6) and no L7 or L8 engineers in 2016-2018. Between 2018-2020, this ratio changed to 1 L7 engineer and 5 L6 engineers in a 300-person organization. ‘Down-leveling’ to join Uber became common.

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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.