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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

We have seen other similar stories play out recently: In 2021, Elastisearch faced a similar “freerider” challenge from AWS. In response, AWS, GCP, Oracle, Snap and others are backing – and migrating to – the Valkey fork, which remains open source. In response, Elasticsearch ceased  being open source.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

After Zynga, he rejoined Amazon, and was the General Manager (GM) for Compute services at AWS, and later chief of staff, and advisor to AWS executives like Charlie Bell and Andy Jassy (Amazon’s current CEO.) The AWS re:invent conference in 2022 hosted a good in-depth overview of Amazon’s COE process.

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Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR…

Towards Data Science

Image from Unsplash Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR Serverless Using OpenAI’s Clip model to support natural language search on a collection of 70k book covers In a previous post I did a little PoC to see if I could use OpenAI’s Clip model to build a semantic book search.

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Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend

The Pragmatic Engineer

Also, longtime readers might find Squarespace familiar, as it was Squarespace principal software Tanya Reilly who wrote the book The Staff Engineer’s Path , from which I previously shared an excerpt and is a book I recommend. AWS uses Gandi under the hood for many of its domains.

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AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide for 2024 [With Tips]

Knowledge Hut

Are you planning to appear for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification in 2023? Here is a complete and comprehensive guide of all the things you can expect from the AWS exams and how to best prepare for them! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the global leader in cloud computing. Looking for some guidance in the right direction?

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Troubleshooting Kafka In Production

Data Engineering Podcast

Elad Eldor has experienced these challenges first-hand, leading to his work writing the book "Kafka: : Troubleshooting in Production" In this episode he highlights the sources of complexity that contribute to Kafka's operational difficulties, and some of the main ways to identify and mitigate potential sources of trouble.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Books for 2024

Knowledge Hut

Are you feeling a mix of anticipation and enthusiasm to tackle the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam? Is your curiosity driving you to delve deeper into the intricacies of the AWS platform, its operational aspects, and your ultimate goal of achieving professional certification in this field?

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