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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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Build a Reproducible and Maintainable Data Science Project: A Free Online Book

KDnuggets

This free online book is a fantastic resource on how to structure, manage, and maintain your real-world data science projects.

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The Book to Start You on Machine Learning

KDnuggets

This book is thought for beginners in Machine Learning, that are looking for a practical approach to learning by building projects and studying the different Machine Learning algorithms within a specific context.

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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

The Pragmatic Engineer

Later this year, he’s publishing a book on tech debt. This project helped onboard me to the software, its structure, its build, and our issue tracking and version control workflows. My first project was supporting i18n (internationalization) in the app. The size of the project was well-understood and planned.

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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. “The administrator and the editor will each need a secretary; the administrator’s secretary will handle project correspondence and non-product files.” This has to do with how much developer tools have evolved in the 50 years since the book came out.

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Unlocking Your dbt Projects With Practical Advice For Practitioners

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The dbt project has become overwhelmingly popular across analytics and data engineering teams. Dustin Dorsey and Cameron Cyr co-authored a practical guide to building your dbt project. In this episode they share their hard-won wisdom about how to build and scale your dbt projects. What was your path to adoption of dbt?

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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.