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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now

The Pragmatic Engineer

Lots of time has passed, yet the book is still relevant. Brooks discusses software in the context of producing operating systems, pre-internet. Building operating systems and embedded software remains challenging, but software updates over the internet are common and bug fixes can be delivered later.

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Best Software Engineering Books [2024]

Knowledge Hut

Also, you must go through certain software engineering books to make your knowledge and skills robust for the job. In this article, we will read about some of the most prevalent and widely loved and best books to read for software engineers that can help you get a good hold of all the concepts in engineering.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

If you had a continuous deployment system up and running around 2010, you were ahead of the pack: but today it’s considered strange if your team would not have this for things like web applications.  In 1997, when Amazon was a one-floor, sub-100 person startup trying to sell books online, I experienced what every engineer dreads.

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Troubleshooting Kafka In Production

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Kafka has become a ubiquitous technology, offering a simple method for coordinating events and data across different systems. What motivated to write a book about how to manage Kafka in production? What motivated to write a book about how to manage Kafka in production? Can you describe your experiences with Kafka?

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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8 Best Python Data Science Books [Beginners and Professionals]

Knowledge Hut

For those interested in studying this programming language, several best books for python data science are accessible. Top 8 Python Data Science Books for 2023 Python is one of the programming languages that is most commonly utilized in the field of data science. On the Goodreads website, readers awarded this book a rating of 4.3

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Ethics Sheet for AI-assisted Comic Book Art Generation

Cloudera

This blog is intended to serve as an ethics sheet for the task of AI-assisted comic book art generation, inspired by “ Ethics Sheets for AI Tasks.” AI-assisted comic book art generation is a task I proposed in a blog post I authored on behalf of my employer, Cloudera. Introduction. Scope, motivation, and benefits.