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Data News — mid-2023 popular articles

Christophe Blefari

🧜‍♂️ ( credits ) Hey, this is a mid-2023 edition with some of my favourite articles and the popular articles that have been shared this year in the newsletter. There isn't any fancy calculation on how to find the popular articles. Popular articles I have sorted the articles by bucket.

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

The Pragmatic Engineer

In this article, we cover one out of five topics from today’s subscriber-only article What Changed in 50 Years of Computing. This is how Brooks put it: “Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. (.)   The program clerk. The tester.

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Data News — Week 25.02

Christophe Blefari

There are multiple ways to start a new year, either with new projects, new ideas, new resolutions or by just keeping doing the same music. ❤️ Transformers laid out — The best article out there to understand Transformers (which are key to understand LLMs). I hope you will enjoy 2025. Read the pdf version directly.

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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

The Pragmatic Engineer

This is a follow-up to the article Paying down tech debt , written by industry veteran Lou Franco.   Every program has non-domain specific code. In the early 90’s, DOS programs like the ones my company made had its own Text UI screen rendering system. The size of the project was well-understood and planned.

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

In this article, we cover one out of three topics from last week’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. Some articles about Cognition AI’s product launch. In 1959, the programming language COBOL was designed by software engineer Grace Hopper. The company broke through to mainstream media – no small feat!

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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

This article is meant to be a resource hub in order to understand dbt basics and to help get started your dbt journey. dbt Labs also develop dbt Cloud which is a cloud product that hosts and runs dbt Core projects. dbt Labs also develop dbt Cloud which is a cloud product that hosts and runs dbt Core projects. dbt/ folder.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

In this article, we cover thee out of nine topics from today’s subscriber-only issue: The Past and Future of Modern Backend Practices. “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” is one theme of this article. This pioneering project was conceived during the Cold War between the US and the USSR.