The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 9, 2023

Over the past few weeks, the majority of US publicly traded companies have published their median total compensation numbers for 2022. Fiscal year 2022 annual base pay (salary or gross wages for hourly employees, excluding paid leave), which we annualized for any permanent employees who commenced work during the year 2.

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ArcGIS

OCTOBER 17, 2023

datums of 2022 will soon be released. The new U.S. This article covers what is coming and how you should prepare your data.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 30, 2023

The company is bleeding money: in 2022 it brought in $4.1B It is pretty telling that the company’s revenue was $4B in 2022 but its market cap is a mere $3.3B. For example, the market cap of Uber is roughly 4x the annual revenue (2022 revenue of $17B, market cap at $61B). This is less than it attracted in fundraising.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 23, 2023

In October 2022, I wrote about the start of a Big Tech hiring slowdown. Then in December 2022, I collected insights from tech recruiters , concluding that the market had slowed down from the frenzy of 2021-Q1 2022 and noted that every recruiter had shared there was some slowdown in the number of positions companies were hiring for.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 8, 2022

Most In-demand Artificial Intelligence Skills To Learn In 2022 • The 5 Hardest Things to Do in SQL • 10 Most Used Tableau Functions • Decision Trees vs Random Forests, Explained • Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 25, 2023

I got a message from a software engineer working at a company which laid off 30% of staff in December 2022. Glassdoor went as far as going to court in 2022 to push back on toymaker Zuru, which wanted to know the reviewers’ identities. To get full articles twice a week, subscribe here.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 2, 2022

Analysts predict an AI boom, driven by possibilities and record funding. While challenges remain, a hybrid approach combining the best of the realm may finally send it sailing into the mainstream.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 25, 2022

Create and collaborate on data science projects or train machine learning models using free cloud Jupyter notebook platforms. You get a hassle-free IDE experience and free compute resources.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Here is software engineer and writer Molly White summarizes of his evidence : “To hear Singh tell it, he didn’t even really realize what was going on at FTX and Alameda Research until September 2022 — only a month or two before everything came crashing down. (.) FTX collapsed in November 2022.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 3, 2023

How software engineer populations have changed across Big Tech: The percentage change in software engineer roles at various companies, between Oct 2022 and Jan 2023. The most common cause, unsurprisingly, is the layoffs announced during Q4 2022 at Twitter, DocuSign, Robinhood, Meta, and Stripe. What’s behind these changes?

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 17, 2021

What AI and data analytics trends are taking the industry by storm this year? This comprehensive review highlights upcoming directions in AI to carefully watch and consider implementing in your personal work or organization.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Are you trying to teach yourself machine learning from scratch, but aren’t sure where to start? I will attempt to condense all the resources I’ve used over the years into 7 steps that you can follow to teach yourself machine learning.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 23, 2022

ODSC East is less than a month away - here are five reasons why you should attend, such as learning about trending topics, amazing Keynotes, and the AI Expo Hall.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Cursor The AI IDE startup was founded in 2022, and released the first version of their IDE in March 2023. However, right now, any engineer making heavy usage of code generation is likely getting good value for money, in terms of the compute required for code generation on larger codebases. model and made it the default.

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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. In March 2022, Uber addressed this inconsistency in levels by updating engineering levels to be more in-line with the rest of the industry.

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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. Source: Dealroom Seed investments have dropped since 2021, but in 2022 were around the same level as in 2020 – and well above 2019. Seed investments in Europe.

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ProjectPro

JUNE 6, 2025

The FIFA World Cup 2022, which is the 22nd edition, is just getting started. Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, predicts that 5 billion people will watch the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The 2022 FIFA World Cup focuses on implementing innovative AI and machine learning techniques in and outside the field.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 4, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the process of programming a computer that can reason and learn like a human being and make decisions for itself.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Our panel of leading experts reviews 2021 main developments and examines the key trends in AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Technology.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 22, 2023

Data source: Domain Name Stat Google Domains was in beta from 2015 to 2022, which is Google’s way of marking in-development services not yet ready for “prime time” due to potential bugs. Google Domains exited Beta in March 2022, 7 years after launch.

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 17, 2023

2022 is coming to an end. What is the state of data infra? Are Snowflake and Databricks still fighting over total cost of ownership? Is everyone switching to DuckDB? Are data engineers all learning Rust? Let’s try to answer these questions.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Before it migrated to Snowflake in 2022, WHOOP was using a catalog of tools — Amazon Redshift for SQL queries and BI tooling, Dremio for a data lake, PostgreSQL databases and others — that had ultimately become expensive to manage and difficult to maintain, let alone scale.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Check out this article on crafting a data science portfolio that will get you that job. And learn 4 resume mistakes to avoid at any cost.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For reviews of earlier years, see The Pragmatic Engineer  in 2021  and  in 2022. We cover: The newsletter’s evolution The most popular articles, and my personal favorites New resources and templates for engineers and managers added this year Tech industry pulse in 2023 Read the 2023 recap here.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 12, 2023

I recommend exercising caution regarding OpsGenie, given how in 2022, OpsGenie was down for hundreds of customers for 2 weeks. Their multi-channel alerting capabilities are more limited, but their overall incident management focus could be more relevant: depending on your needs, and the maturity of your team. Yes: 2 for weeks!

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ArcGIS

APRIL 10, 2025

datums of 2022 will soon be released. The new U.S. This article covers what is coming and how you should prepare your data.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2021, an impressive 67% of graduates got a software engineering job within 8 weeks, and in 2022 this number was 74% and close to 100% after 6 months, with a $124K average base salary. 'I expect our 2023 graduation numbers to be significantly worse than our 2022 numbers, but I'm eager to compare them with other training programs.'

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft announced eliminating 10,000 positions on Wednesday - and I analyzed why the company decided to make this move despite earning record profits in 2022, in this week’s The Scoop. As I wrote in July 2022, in The Scoop #19: The start of a tech winter? Image source: Visual Capitalist. Image source: Visual Capitalist.

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KDnuggets

JULY 20, 2022

14 Essential Git Commands for Data Scientists • Statistics and Probability for Data Science • 20 Basic Linux Commands for Data Science Beginners • 3 Ways Understanding Bayes Theorem Will Improve Your Data Science • Learn MLOps with This Free Course • Primary Supervised Learning Algorithms Used in Machine Learning • Data Preparation with SQL Cheatsheet. (..)

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 8, 2023

Shopify’s stock value fell 29% between September 2021 and September 2022: Shopify’s stock price change, versus the S&P 500 index, between September 2021 and 2022 The most common way companies respond to such drastic stock declines are these: Issue higher equity refreshers , intended to counter a falling stock price.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This curated list of data science projects offers real-life problems that will help you master skills to demonstration that you are technically sound and know how to conduct data science projects that add business value.

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databricks

JUNE 12, 2025

Since 2022, Databricks SQL (DBSQL) Serverless has delivered a 5x performance gain across real-world customer workloads—turning a 100-second dashboard into a 20-second one. That acceleration

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 14, 2024

See his talk at React Live 2023 (a case study of a successful migration) and at JSWORLD 2022 (designing high-performance React applications.) " Watch past talks from Dennis at NDC 2023 (autonomous microservices) , NDC 2022 (dealing with eventual consistency.) " See his talk at LeadDev London 2022 (on development setup.)

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KDnuggets

MAY 30, 2022

Also: Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained; Data Science Projects That Will Land You The Job in 2022; The 6 Python Machine Learning Tools Every Data Scientist Should Know About; Naïve Bayes Algorithm: Everything You Need to Know.

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Jesse Anderson

JANUARY 9, 2023

2022 was a banner year for activity.” In 2022, many of the Ververica employees left and formed Immerok. You can see a significant drop starting in March 2022. While the technology sector has had a tough time, that started in May 2022. Confluent’s problems began months earlier, in February 2022.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 14, 2024

See his talk at React Live 2023 (a case study of a successful migration) and at JSWORLD 2022 (designing high-performance React applications.) " Watch past talks from Dennis at NDC 2023 (autonomous microservices) , NDC 2022 (dealing with eventual consistency.) " See his talk at LeadDev London 2022 (on development setup.)

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KDnuggets

JUNE 27, 2022

Also: Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained; 15 Python Coding Interview Questions You Must Know For Data Science; Naïve Bayes Algorithm: Everything You Need to Know; KDnuggets Top Posts for May 2022: 9 Free Harvard Courses to Learn Data Science in 2022.

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