The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 21, 2024

Evan joined OpenAI in 2020 – two years before ChatGPT launched – and has led the Applied engineering team as ChatGPT launched and scaled. The engineering, product, and design organization that makes and scales these products is called "Applied," and was founded in 2020 when GPT-3 was released.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 2, 2022

We are excited to invite the global Kafka community to Kafka Summit 2020: Event Streaming Everywhere. To prioritize the safety of our community, we are transforming Kafka Summit Austin into a virtual experience.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Using the Cloudera Data Platform to interpret analytics across its departments, Globe Telecom tripled their Airtime Loans revenue in the first year, followed by another approximately 120% in the first half of 2020. The post Announcing the 2020 Data Impact Award Winners appeared first on Cloudera Blog. Enterprise Data Cloud.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 30, 2023

Disclaimer: I worked at Uber, Lyft's US competitor, between 2016-2020. In 2020, Lyft’s stock price was on a downward slope, and the company changed how it awarded stock to employees. In 2020, Lyft already spent $565M on stock-based compensation with 2,700 employees, an average of $207K per employee.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 13, 2020

This articles outlines 5 sets of tools every lazy full-stack data scientist should use.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

Things are looking better in this category: Series E and later rounds are on the rise, and at the 2020 levels. Source: Dealroom Seed investments have dropped since 2021, but in 2022 were around the same level as in 2020 – and well above 2019. In the US: Angel and seed investments are back at 2020 levels (a 2.5-year

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 8, 2020

The standard job description for a Data Scientist has long highlighted skills in R, Python, SQL, and Machine Learning. With the field evolving, these core competencies are no longer enough to stay competitive in the job market.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 9, 2020

In this article, we are listing down some excellent data science books which cover the wide variety of topics under Data Science.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s also possible to posit that the “spark” which ignited this confluence of factors was the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21, and the accompanying rise of remote work. 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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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 25, 2023

Just 2 years ago, about 12 months after layoffs at the company, the scores were significantly lower: Trustwave’s Glassdoor reviews page in June 2021 Former employees told me the company had a restructuring in mid-2020, letting go about 10-20% of staff. The company called this restructuring a company-wide transformation.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 20, 2023

Until early 2022, the software engineering levels at Uber were: Engineering levels at Uber, 2014-2022 Back when I was at Uber in around 2020, I saw statistics about the spread of these levels. Between 2018-2020, this ratio changed to 1 L7 engineer and 5 L6 engineers in a 300-person organization.

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Snowflake

MARCH 20, 2025

Having led the research team at FAIR that wrote the 2020 paper on RAG, I knew that RAG would be an important component in building AI for enterprises. While its very easy to put together a compelling AI demo, its very difficult to get AI systems into production.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s take a closer look on Cloud ML market in 2021 in retrospective (with occasional drills into realities of 2020, too). Read this in-depth analysis.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 20, 2023

We pivoted to API observability in 2020. This happened a year later, in 2020, and this pivot took about a year to execute, in large part because we were building something so different we needed to recruit different people to help build it.

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Confluent

JULY 17, 2020

The first-ever virtual Kafka Summit 2020 kicks off next month in the comfort of your home office, couch, spare bedroom, living room, outbuilding, lanai, veranda, or in-home portico, featuring an […].

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 15, 2024

RAG is the new trend — RAG means retrieval-augmented generation, it has been coined in 2020 ( see more ) and let's you ground AI models with facts fetched from external sources. I like how Meta tries to do stuff out in the open (or at least with some kind of transparency) but the number of GPUs is just disconcerting.

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Jesse Anderson

MARCH 6, 2023

Between January 24, 2023, and February 28, 2023, I ran a survey to get more data for my latest book Data Teams , and to update my previous survey from late 2020. Changes Since 2020 to Now With data from the 2020’s survey, I wanted to see what, if anything, is changing. The average for 2023 is 7.02, and in 2020 is 7.08.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 22, 2023

Since mid-2020, it’s been the #3 most-used domain registrar, globally: The popularity of domain providers, based on monthly domains registered. Other developers also appreciated its clean interface, straightforward pricing, and trusted Google’s brand. As such, Google Domains became a popular domain registrar.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 14, 2024

See his talk on linting (SeleniumConf, London, 2020) and on Mobile testing (SauceCon, San Francisco, 2017) Sendil Kumar N (Amsterdam, Uber). See his talks at IT Revolution 2024 , at Italian Agile Moment 2023 and in 2020. All of them have reference recordings at conferences linked. Talks about various testing topics.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 6, 2023

I share my first-hand experience of Uber’s 2019 and 2020 layoffs in the Netherlands, and what employee protection might mean for Big Tech and hiring in Europe. Meta and Amazon are realizing what companies like Microsoft and Uber learned the hard way: that in Europe you cannot hire fast, then fire fast.

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Team Data Science

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Week 1: 10/9/20 - 10/16/20 In my quest to further improve my overall data science skills, I pulled the trigger on October 9th, 2020, and enrolled in a Data Engineering boot camp lead by Andreas Kretz. Let's call this October 2020 cohort. First a little bit about myself.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 14, 2024

See his talk on linting (SeleniumConf, London, 2020) and on Mobile testing (SauceCon, San Francisco, 2017) Sendil Kumar N (Amsterdam, Uber). See his talks at IT Revolution 2024 , at Italian Agile Moment 2023 and in 2020. All of them have reference recordings at conferences linked. Talks about various testing topics.

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Team Data Science

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

I joined Andreas's coaching sessions, and I am a member of his sessions from the November 2020 cohort. I am confident that learning data engineering will make me a better data scientist. Where did I start?

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A lot has changed since the initial launch of our basemap in late 2020. In late 2020, Meta launched its basemap. We’re Meta now, but our mission remains the same: Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

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databricks

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Established in 2020, EVPassport aims to transform the electric vehicle charging experience. Specializing in multi-family residences, hospitality, retail, workplaces, and commercial parking environments.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 3, 2023

World Finals: up to 2020, it was held in a location in the US or Europe, and has been online since. The top 1,500 contestants in any of the preliminary rounds proceed. Online Round 2: the top 1,000 make it through. Online Round 3: contestants get a limited edition T-shirt. The top 25 make it to the World Finals.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 10, 2023

When global lockdowns started in 2020, Stack Overflow saw a spike and then a decrease in cloud migration questions and security-related ones. The company said: “we can likely attribute this to developers trying GPT-4 after it was released in March.” ” 14% : this is by how much search engine traffic is down, year-on-year.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In our February 2020 blog post Celebrating Over 100 Supported Apache Kafka® Connectors, we announced support for more than 100 connectors on Confluent Platform. Since then, we have been focused […].

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Cloudera

JANUARY 18, 2021

2020 put on full display how humanity shows up in times of hardship. Our Chief Diversity Officer, Sarah Shin, hosted Cloudera’s first Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DE&I) Summit in August of 2020. Some communities were harder hit than others, and we’ve seen the same in the global workplace. An opportunity to build community.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s been a domain registrar since 2020, and already manages 1 million domain names. This list is useful, not just for Google Domains customers who don’t want to wait to be passed to Squarespace. Anyone planning on registering a domain may find this list beneficial. As a note, I’ve nothing against Squarespace.

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Team Data Science

JANUARY 8, 2021

Andreas Free Data Engineering Introduction Course Data Engineer Coaching - Booking for Q1 in 2020 is now available My free 100+ pages , Data Engineering Cookbook Follow us on , LinkedIn Check out my , YouTube Check out the full video on YouTube! Let me know in the comments how you feel about Data Engineers and their necessary skills!

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Team Data Science

JANUARY 14, 2021

Andreas Data Engineer Coaching - Booking for Q1 in 2020 is now available My free 100+ pages , Data Engineering Cookbook Follow us on , LinkedIn Check out my , YouTube Check out the full video on YouTube! One of the simple but important things about converting your careers is that you must be willing to learn. See you later.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 9, 2023

A few weeks ago, when covering Uber’s engineering level changes , I recreated the company’s engineering split, of which around 2,000 software engineers – more than 50% of the population – were non-senior engineers: A rough, estimated split of ~2,000 software engineers at Uber, in 2020.

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Edureka

JANUARY 21, 2025

“Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks,” a 2020 paper by Patrick Lewis and a team at Facebook AI Research, was the first thing that generative AI writers heard about RAG. Introduction of RAG : Around 2020, OpenAI, Facebook AI, and other study groups made the idea of RAG official.

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Knowledge Hut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) This post comes with a lucrative salary and high authority, with an overall employment rate supposed to show an average rise of 8% between 2020 and 2030. In 2020, the USA witnessed an uptick of 106% vacancies for corporate lawyers, underlining the growing demand for this post.

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