The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

Source: Dealroom Seed investments have dropped since 2021, but in 2022 were around the same level as in 2020 – and well above 2019. But what about seed rounds in Europe, typically of $1-4M by check size? Seed investments in Europe. Zooming out, how have all investment rounds stacked up against previous years?

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Recommender systems are an important class of machine learning algorithms that offer "relevant" suggestions to users. Categorized as either collaborative filtering or a content-based system, check out how these approaches work along with implementations to follow from example code.

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Confluent

MAY 23, 2019

He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to distributed systems, and is the author of “Gradle Beyond the Basics.” He can frequently be found at speaking at conferences in the U.S. and all over the world.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019 is located at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. His particular interests are analytics, systems architecture, performance testing, and optimization. Know the logistics. Coming and going. Kafka Summit starts with keynote talks at 9:30 a.m. You can follow him on Twitter.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 19, 2024

When we looked at GitHub Copilot alternatives , all were launched at least a year after GitHub Copilot’s 2021 launch except Tabnine, launched in 2019. In an amusing twist, a few years ago, demand for COBOL developers reportedly soared as there are still critical banking and insurance systems using this now-ancient language.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 11, 2023

Datadog is a leading observability tooling provider which went public in 2019, with a current market cap of $28B. A very popular open-source solution for systems and services monitoring. A fast and open-source column-oriented database management system, which is a popular choice for log management.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Data Engineering refers to creating practical designs for systems that can extract, keep, and inspect data at a large scale. As per a 2020 report by DICE, data engineer is the fastest-growing job role and witnessed 50% annual growth in 2019. Ability to demonstrate expertise in database management systems.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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Confluent

APRIL 16, 2019

To build the kinds of systems we are being called upon to build these days, we need infrastructure that gives equal priority to events and state together. and a couple of fantastic keynotes: Jay Kreps (CEO of Confluent and co-creator of Apache Kafka ® ) kept the unifying vision of the event streaming platform in front of us.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 6, 2023

For AI,  we’ve built a system to efficiently use GPT-4 for this purpose, including auto-crafting prompts and performing pre and post-processing. Our system is using purely Serverless to process the data. We use React on the frontend, Node.js on the backend, and Postgres for database storage.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Here we explore initial system designs we considered, an overview of the current architecture, and some important principles Meta takes into account in making data accessible and easy to understand. 2019: Users can view their activity off Meta-technologies and clear their history. feature on Facebook. What are data logs?

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Confluent

JANUARY 21, 2020

Netflix spent an estimated $15 billion to produce world-class original content in 2019. When stakes are so high, it is paramount to enable our business with critical insights that help […].

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Zhamak Dehghani introduced the concepts behind this architectural patterns in 2019, and since then it has been gaining popularity with many companies adopting some version of it in their systems. How has your view of the principles of the data mesh changed since our conversation in July of 2019?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 1, 2024

When we looked at GitHub Copilot alternatives , all were launched at least a year after GitHub Copilot’s 2021 launch except Tabnine, launched in 2019. In an amusing twist, a few years ago, demand for COBOL developers reportedly soared as there are still critical banking and insurance systems using this now-ancient language.

Software Engineering 245

Software Engineering Software Engineer Programming Language Media 245

Cloudera

MAY 26, 2021

A 2019 report identified that companies are more worried about inadvertent insider breaches(71%), negligent data breaches (65%), and malicious intent by bad actors (60%) than they are about compromised accounts/machines (9%). . The post Auditing to external systems in CDP Private Cloud Base appeared first on Cloudera Blog.

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Netflix Tech

MAY 21, 2025

Authors: Sejoon Oh , Moumita Bhattacharya , Yesu Feng , Sudarshan Lamkhede , Ko-Jen Hsiao , and JustinBasilico Motivation Recommender systems have become essential components of digital services across e-commerce, streaming media, and social networks [1, 2]. Recommender systems in industry: A netflix case study. Springer. [2]

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

RDBMS stands for Relational Database Management System. SQL dialects refer to the different versions or "flavors" of SQL implemented by various database management systems. is standardized by ANSI, each database system may extend it with its own custom functions, commands, and behaviors—resulting in slightly different dialects.

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Pinterest Engineering

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

At Pinterest Homefeed, we use engaged sessions to measure the impact of recommendation system iterations, which are continuous interaction sessions larger than 60 seconds. Advances in neural information processing systems 30(2017). [4] Advances in neural information processing systems 30(2017). [5] 3] Vaswani, Ashish, et al.

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Jesse Anderson

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Alibaba bought Ververica. This comparison seems like a clear point that Flink will be the system of choice. Streaming systems are already difficult enough and adding more complexity to the choice with lead to analysis paralysis. That’s because it was recently founded, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t formidable.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As with any system out there, the data often needs processing before it can be used. In traditional data warehousing, we’d call this ETL, and whilst more “modern” systems might not recognise this term, it’s what most of us end up doing whether we call it pipelines or wrangling or engineering. Handling time.

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Confluent

MAY 30, 2019

Built with Prometheus and InfluxDB monitoring systems. To build an event streaming pipeline, Spring Cloud Data Flow provides a set of application types: A source represents the first step in the data pipeline, a producer that extracts data from the external systems like databases, filesystem, FTP servers, IoT devices, etc.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 12, 2021

A 2020 retention report by the Work Institute revealed that over 42 million employees in the US left their jobs voluntarily in 2019, and this trend appeared to be increasing. A 2019 HBR article mentioned how organizational decisions backed by data have instilled more confidence and reduced risk. Risk Management.

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Knowledge Hut

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Below are the Power BI requirements for the system. Supported operating system: Power BI program can be installed in a device with the following operations systems. Windows Server 2019 Data Centre, server 2019 standard, server 2016 standard, server 2016 datacenter.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

In fact, as per a report by Dice Insights in 2019, companies are hungry for data engineers as the job role ranked at the top of the list of trending jobs. Data engineers are responsible for creating pipelines enabling data flow from various sources to data storage and processing systems.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Additionally, the website reported that the number of job positions was almost similar in 2019 and 2020. Learn to Interact with the DBMS Systems Many companies keep their data warehouses far from the stations where data can be accessed. The role of a data engineer is to use tools for interacting with the database management systems.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This thorough review focuses on the impact of AI, 5G, and edge computing on the healthcare sector in the 2020s as well as a look at quantum computing's potential impact on AI, healthcare, and financial services.

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Cloudera

MAY 27, 2021

An authoritarian regime is manipulating an artificial intelligence (AI) system to spy on technology users. When developing ethical AI systems, the most important part is intent and diligence in evaluating models on an ongoing basis,” said Santiago Giraldo Anduaga, director of product marketing, data engineering and ML at Cloudera.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

DataOps DevOps Databases, data warehouses, schemas, tables, views, and integration logs from other important systems make up the DataOps ecosystem. However, both serve their target audiences by lowering data debt, developing data products, minimizing the time it takes to build a system, or offering continuous delivery.

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Lyft Engineering

JUNE 8, 2023

We’re looking for driven engineers to fortify our European operations and solve some of the hardest problems in building large distributed systems to support rideshare, mapping, and more. Lyft was founded in 2012 and went public in 2019, with the mission to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

In this blog, we'll explore why Pydantic has become a go-to tool for building agentic AI systems , explore its key features, and showcase how it simplifies the development of Generative AI applications. It’s ideal for tasks such as conversational agents and question-answering systems. Table of Contents What is Pydantic AI?

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Edureka

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Software Engineers, on the other hand, specialize in building and developing comprehensive systems, with an emphasis on architectural and engineering concepts. On the other hand, a Software Engineer focuses on specific areas of development, such as system design, algorithms, or a programming language.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But with growing demands, there’s a more nuanced need for enterprise-scale machine learning solutions and better data management systems. They created a system to spread data across several servers with GPU-based processing so large datasets could be managed more effectively across the board. .

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LinkedIn Engineering

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Over time, LinkedIn's engineering team expanded the stream processing ecosystem with more proprietary tools like Brooklin , facilitating data streaming across multiple stores and messaging systems, and Venice , serving as a storage system for ingesting batch and stream processing job outputs, among others.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Now imagine event sourcing in the context of an online order system: you place an order and are able to get status updates when your order is confirmed, fulfilled, and shipped. In fact, it’s the summation of these events that result in our current account balance. This, in a nutshell, is event sourcing. Event sourcing: primary vs. derivative.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

Transfer Learning Examples Keras Transfer Learning Implementation in Python Build exciting Deep Learning Systems with ProjectPro! Facial Recognition: Utilize transfer learning to build a facial recognition system for attendance tracking, access control, or sentiment analysis in videos. Why use Transfer Learning?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 13, 2023

Until 2019, the company had only 8 locations, which limited their customer base. At first, the company blamed the pause of sales on a bug in their system, then confirmed that pausing sales was intentional. That small tweak had an outsized impact. Overnight, our shipping damages dropped by 70-80%.”

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