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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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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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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.

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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. This book offers practical programming solutions to these problems.

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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? If you've learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it!

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Joshua is currently VP of Product & Strategy at VMware, a cloud computing and virtualization technology company. Joshua also writes an excellent Substack newsletter about how to design products which customers love, how to operate live services at scale, grow and optimize your technology orgs, and the history of the tech industry.