8 Traits of The Best Teams I’ve Worked With
Cover Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on UnsplashThe best teams I’ve worked with are autonomous and extremely customer-focused. You can trust them to do the right thing because they know what the priorities are. Everyone feels empowered to interact with stakeholders to resolve issues and drive projects to success. The individuals
Read moreFrom Code to C-Suite: How to Present Your Engineering Progress Effectively
Photo by Product School on UnsplashIn the often hidden platform engineering world, articulating progress effectively, especially in long-term projects, is paramount. We suffer from the invisible unless it fails syndrome.The challenge, however, lies in translating complex, foundational technical achievements into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with C-Level stakeholders — those who may not
Read moreiOS 17 @Observable and the Observation Framework
New in WWDC 23, the new approach to observing changes simplifies SwiftUI and solves the nested observable object problem.WWDC 2023 introduced us to the new iOS-17@Observable property wrapper along with a cleaned-up @State that now supersedes the previous @State @ObservedObject, @StateObject. This is fantastic — it’s always been a source of confusion for
Read morePair programing? We peek under the hood of Duet, Google’s coding assistant. (Ep. 580)
On today’s episode, we chat with Marcos Grappeggia, the product manager for Duet, an AI-powered assistant that can help you craft code by suggesting snippets—even full functions—as you write. Grappeggia explains why he thinks tools like this will augment, but not replace, the human developers at work today. Episode notes:
Read moreBeyond ChatGPT: The role of AI and ML in assessment and selection
Defining AI and ML When you think about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), what comes to mind? If it’s ChatGPT, AI-generated art, and autonomous pizza delivery, you’re not alone. These are just a few of the most buzzworthy developments in AI and ML from the past few years–and
Read moreStart Your Stream Processing Journey With Just 4 Lines of Code
A decade ago, I stumbled upon an intriguing big data project called Stratosphere. What immediately captured my interest was a particular section in its introduction: the ability to initiate a cluster on a single machine and execute MapReduce-based WordCount computations with just 3 lines of code! During a time dominated
Read moreOptimizing Anki Flashcards with Prompt Engineering
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Read morePrompt Engineering: The Future of AI-Driven Development
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Read moreBridging the Gap: My Journey to Becoming a Data Analyst at 34
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Read moreA Deep Dive Into Graph Analytics — Part 1 With Memgraph
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