Learning System Design: Top 5 Essential Reads
KDnuggets
MAY 23, 2024
Explore system design with these expert-recommended books.
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KDnuggets
MAY 23, 2024
Explore system design with these expert-recommended books.
The Pragmatic Engineer
MARCH 12, 2024
Lots of time has passed, yet the book is still relevant. Brooks discusses software in the context of producing operating systems, pre-internet. Building operating systems and embedded software remains challenging, but software updates over the internet are common and bug fixes can be delivered later.
Knowledge Hut
DECEMBER 27, 2023
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.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
A few years ago I helped build an event-driven system for gym bookings. The pitch was that we were building a better experience for both the gym members booking different […].
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Knowledge Hut
APRIL 25, 2024
If you are planning to pursue a career in cybersecurity, you must strongly consider reading some of the most authentic books. This article will guide you through the best book on cyber security. Cybersecurity involves protecting sensitive information and critical systems from digital attacks. What is Cybersecurity?
Knowledge Hut
APRIL 24, 2024
The technique of breaking into networks or computer systems to search for threats or vulnerabilities that a hostile attacker might uncover and use to steal data, inflict financial loss, or cause another major harm is known as penetration testing. Numerous ethical hacking books are available to help you get started.
Knowledge Hut
JUNE 25, 2024
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.
Data Engineering Podcast
DECEMBER 24, 2023
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? What motivated to write a book about how to manage Kafka in production? Can you describe your experiences with Kafka?
Speaker: Jason Tanner
A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. You’ll receive a template to apply for your solution and opportunity to receive the Software Profit Streams™ book. While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability.
Cloudera
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
This blog is intended to serve as an ethics sheet for the task of AI-assisted comic book art generation, inspired by “ Ethics Sheets for AI Tasks.” AI-assisted comic book art generation is a task I proposed in a blog post I authored on behalf of my employer, Cloudera. Introduction. Scope, motivation, and benefits.
Knowledge Hut
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
With that in mind, having the best CSM books to help you with Scrum preparation would go a long way in assisting you to become the expert you desire to be. Along with the best Scrum book, it is a plus point to go for CSM online training and boost your learning. Who is a CSM?
Data Engineering Podcast
JULY 24, 2022
Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Joe Reis and Matt Housley about their new book on the Fundamentals of Data Engineering Interview Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management? Can you explain what possessed you to write such an ambitious book? What are your goals with this book?
Knowledge Hut
MAY 6, 2024
Applying systems thinking views a system as a set of interconnected and interdependent components defined by its limits and more than the sum of their parts (subsystems). When one component of a system is altered, the effects frequently spread across the entire system. are the main objectives of systems thinking.
Data Engineering Podcast
DECEMBER 25, 2022
Recognizing this shortcoming and the capabilities that could be unlocked by a robust solution Rishabh Poddar helped to create Opaque Systems as an outgrowth of his PhD studies. Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/datafold today to book a demo with Datafold. Can you describe what you are building at Opaque Systems and the story behind it?
The Pragmatic Engineer
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
If you had a continuous deployment system up and running around 2010, you were ahead of the pack: but today it’s considered strange if your team would not have this for things like web applications. In 1997, when Amazon was a one-floor, sub-100 person startup trying to sell books online, I experienced what every engineer dreads.
The Pragmatic Engineer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Later this year, he’s publishing a book on tech debt. In the early 90’s, DOS programs like the ones my company made had its own Text UI screen rendering system. This rendering system was easy for me to understand, even on day one. Our rendering system was very memory inefficient, but that could be fixed.
Lyft Engineering
APRIL 3, 2023
This blog post focuses on the scope and the goals of the recommendation system, and explores some of the most recent changes the Rider team has made to better serve Lyft’s riders. Introduction: Scope of the Recommendation System The recommendation system covers user experiences throughout the ride journey.
The Pragmatic Engineer
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Wordpress is the most popular content management system (CMS), estimated to power around 43% of all websites; a staggering number! Forks gaining momentum that has the code of Wordpress, but uses a different name could also be in the books. I can see a few things happen: A fork (or more).
The Pragmatic Engineer
AUGUST 10, 2023
Learnerbly is an L&D platform hundreds of tech companies use, as it makes administering these budgets much simpler — and it’s also a lot easier for people to request books, courses, or newsletters. Simplify helped me a lot to automatically fill applications in the most popular applicant tracking systems (ATS.)
The Pragmatic Engineer
APRIL 19, 2023
An example of this was how, when I was writing a book on resumes, I came across the concept of "ATSes rejecting resumes." I was sceptical that any system would automatically reject resumes, because I never saw this as a hiring manager. Look for sources, and question where the details come from.
François Nguyen
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
If there is one only book to read about lean manufacturing, this is the one. This is the kind of book you can read again and again and still learn something about your current context. It is also a book you can read whatever your industry, you will always find situations covered by this book.
The Pragmatic Engineer
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
The innovator’s dilemma comes from the book of the same title by Clayton Christerenses. Discovering these edge cases – and making sure they don’t catch you off guard – will surely be a learning curve for developers using Bun, just like with every new framework.
Jesse Anderson
JUNE 7, 2022
We also had the good fortune that the universe was aligned with our desire to delve into data mesh, with her freshly published book, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale , giving us a great base to have an in-depth discussion and not just another interview. One of the things I loved about her book is the diagrams.
Data Engineering Podcast
JULY 16, 2023
In his recent book "Datapreneurs" he reflects on the people and businesses that he has known and worked with and how they relied on data to deliver valuable services and drive meaningful change. What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while working on the Datapreneurs book?
Data Engineering Podcast
DECEMBER 26, 2021
Zhamak Dehghani introduced the concepts behind this architectural patterns in 2019, and since then it has been gaining popularity with many companies adopting some version of it in their systems. What are some of the ways that your work on the data mesh book influenced your thinking on the practical elements of implementing a data mesh?
Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 14, 2024
KNN == K-Nearest Neighbors RocksDB C# Language ASP.NET QUIC Dynamo Paper Database Internals book (affiliate link) Designing Data Intensive Applications book (affiliate link) The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA Sponsored By: Starburst : ![Starburst
The Pragmatic Engineer
AUGUST 10, 2023
Learnerbly is an L&D platform hundreds of tech companies use, as it makes administering these budgets much simpler — and it’s also a lot easier for people to request books, courses, or newsletters. Small business hosts on the travel booking platform are waiting more than a month to be paid. Exclusive.
Towards Data Science
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
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.
The Pragmatic Engineer
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Willem Spruijt is a software engineer whom I worked on the same team with at Uber in Amsterdam, building payments systems. An example of making a company-wide impact at Rise was during our Christmas hackathon, when an engineer built a Calendly-like feature for anyone to book a slot in your calendar.
Jesse Anderson
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Google looked over the expanse of the growing internet and realized they’d need scalable systems. With an immutable file system like HDFS, we needed scalable databases to read and write data randomly. We lacked a scalable pub/sub system. I firmly believe that no general-purpose distributed system will make data engineering easy.
Knowledge Hut
OCTOBER 29, 2023
Hospital Management System Type : Application development, Database management, Programming There is no shortage of computer science project topics out there. But if you are looking for something that's both technically challenging and socially relevant, consider a hospital management system. Source Code: OCR System 5.
Knowledge Hut
MARCH 20, 2024
Your interior organization system is important to your vocation achievement. When you meet with the peoples in your system, convey something to the table and make certain you are putting forth esteem. Check your date-book six months out for a review of profession objectives and make modification if important.
Data Engineering Podcast
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
What are the technical systems that you are relying on to power the different data domains? What is your philosophy on enforcing uniformity in technical systems vs. relying on interface definitions as the unit of consistency? What are the technical systems that you are relying on to power the different data domains?
Cloudera
MAY 4, 2022
The availability and maturity of automated data collection and analysis systems is making it possible for businesses to implement AI across their entire operations to boost efficiency and agility. AI increasingly enables systems to operate autonomously, making self-corrections automatically as necessary.
Booking.com Engineering
JANUARY 11, 2024
Throughout this process, we designed our libraries to be fully independent of other Booking infrastructures, injecting external dependencies like experimentation, storage, and networking. Alerting: We require a flexible alerting/SLA system that can promptly notify different teams about performance degradations.
Knowledge Hut
OCTOBER 29, 2023
Cloud-enabled attendance system We can use a cloud-enabled automatic attendance system to scan details. Administrators must register new students/employees on the system and provide some personal information. The entire system is powered by electricity. This system will also contain patient and contact information.
Knowledge Hut
MAY 17, 2024
In the early 1940s, Toyota automotive in Japan used a simple planning system to manage and control work and inventory at each stage optimally. It is related to lean and just-in-time JIT production, where it is used as a scheduling system to indicate what to produce, when, and how much. How does Kanban System work?
Team Data Science
JANUARY 8, 2021
Other skills you can learn Apart from the above skills mentioned, you can also learn to understand Linux, having an understanding of how to mount a drive and how user group and system security works within Linux. Nowadays, people are looking more into Agile software development, and that's what I'm currently working on. See you later.
François Nguyen
MARCH 7, 2021
When you have this vision, how to make it become a reality : the only answer to that is building a team (probably more than one) and to be more specific like a stream aligned team as defined by Matthew Skelton and Manual Pais in this book. And because of the Conway Law, we all know about the link between teams and the design of your system.
Team Data Science
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Structured Query Language (SQL) SQL has been in existence for some time now, and database systems are still prevalent and important in many companies. Conversely, Data Scientists do not have to know how to build the whole system or pipeline on their own; this isn't their role. See you later.
Data Engineering Podcast
JANUARY 15, 2022
Now it is being used to power consumer facing services, influence organizational behaviors, and build sophisticated machine learning systems. Can you describe what motivated you to write a book about the work of building data products? What are the main goals that you are trying to achieve through the book?
Knowledge Hut
MAY 20, 2024
For example, through ethical hacking, one can get the authorization of some system, but it is done to create a shield against the odds. Later, being encouraged by his followers, he wrote his first book, An Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking, when he was merely 14! His books have been very well received all over the world.
Snowflake
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
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. Additionally, if you plan to be at Phocuswright 2024 in Phoenix, please reach out to whitnee.hawthorne@snowflake.com to book a meeting.
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