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ddiaflashcards.com - Flashcards for Designing Data Intensive Applications
Releasing a study deck for a much loved software textbook.
The Books I Read - 2021
The 38 books I read in our second COVID-19 year (with some reviews).
From Data Engineer to SysAdmin: Put down the K8s cluster, your pipelines can run without it
Big Data meets Big Container, and now no one is getting anything done.
What's in a name? The Data Scientist vs. Machine Learning Engineer title bore.
Why has data scientist fallen out of favour, with machine learning engineer being ascendant?
How can an ML model perform highly and poorly at the same time?
An instance of unhelpful term overloading in machine learning engineering.
A Basic Python Toolchain in Bazel
How to improve on the default auto-detecting Python toolchain shipped with Bazel.
Using Terraform to make my many side-projects 'pick up and play'
A post contending that Terraform is a no-brainer addition to your side-project development toolkit.
Bazel is taking over
On the Bazel build system's potential to become a category-killer.
The Bazel 'Elevator Pitch'
There's an elevator pitch for Bazel from early 2018 that I point people at and crib from so often that I thought it was well time I copied it out and put it online.
How To Ask For Help In Slack
The help-needer's and question-asker's checklist
The Books I Read - 2020
Every book I read in our COVID-19 year, with reviews.
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