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Databricks crossed $350M run rate in Q3, up from $200M one year ago

TechCrunch

Namely Databricks , a data analytics company that was most recently valued at around $6.2 Ghodsi took over as CEO in 2016 after serving as the company’s VP of engineering. Normally I’d be content to wave my hands at data analytics and call it a day. How do they find that information?

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How TripleLift Built an Adtech Data Pipeline Processing Billions of Events Per Day

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. Why did you decide to build this system?

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A few months ago, I wrote about the differences between data engineers and data scientists. An interesting thing happened: the data scientists started pushing back, arguing that they are, in fact, as skilled as data engineers at data engineering. Let’s call this data scientist Bob.

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Cloudera DataFlow’s key milestones and wins in 2020

Cloudera

Streaming data (or data-in-motion) is one such technology space that thrived during these times. Everyone was looking for real-time insights by analyzing what is going on currently within their businesses and taking corrective action pro-actively. Our keynote , delivered by our VP of Engineering, Joe Witt, and Sr.

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5 machine learning essentials nontechnical leaders need to understand

TechCrunch

For this piece, I interviewed a select group of successful ML leaders including Sambhus; Lior Gavish , co-founder at Monte Carlo; and Yotam Hadass , VP of engineering at Electric.ai, for their insights. ML recruiting strategy. Recruiting for ML comes with several challenges.

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Principal Engineer: role & responsibilities

Apiumhub

Also, after this event, we had a meeting with our Principal Engineer and software development team to discuss this topic as we noticed that in each company it is slightly different. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.