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Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book

The Pragmatic Engineer

Manu recently published his book Twitoons: one employee’s cartoon chronicle of Twitter’s accelerated descent. I read the book: it’s funny! Today’s newsletter closes with a full chapter from this book, visualizing when Elon Musk demanded all Twitter software engineers print out their code on paper (!!)

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The Complete Collection of Data Science Books – Part 1

KDnuggets

Read the best books on Programming, Statistics, Data Engineering, Web Scraping, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Applications, Data Management, Big Data, and Cloud Architecture.

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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. This is how Brooks put it: “Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. (.) ” This is a bit like a junior pair-programming partner.   The program clerk. The language lawyer.

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Composable CDPs for Travel: Personalizing Guest Experiences with AI

Snowflake

That said, managing vast, complex data sets across multiple brands, loyalty programs and guest touchpoints presents unique challenges for companies in this industry. How Composable CDPs work on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud The Snowflake AI Data Cloud centralizes customer data from reservations, loyalty programs, booking engines and more.

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Data Engineering Roadmap, Learning Path,& Career Track 2025

ProjectPro

Good skills in computer programming languages like R, Python, Java, C++, etc. Computer Programming A decent understanding and experience of a computer programming language is necessary for data engineering. Here is a book recommendation : Python for Absolute Beginners by Michael Dawson.

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7 Best Pytorch Books for Deep Learning Experts to Read in 2025

ProjectPro

Steve knows that reading the best Pytorch books and working on various PyTorch projects for deep learning will be crucial in his journey towards becoming a PyTorch expert. Steve is met with a plethora of options on which are the best PyTorch books he should read? Which PyTorch projects should he tackle first to master PyTorch?

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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

The Pragmatic Engineer

Later this year, he’s publishing a book on tech debt.   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. For updates on this upcoming release, subscribe here.