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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Krishna Birla, Software Engineer

Cloudera

Krishna is a Software Engineer working on our Compute Platform and operates out of Bangalore, India. His primary responsibility is to develop, test and maintain software applications that provide compute services to various Cloudera products. Technology and design are his major interest areas.

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The software engineering rule of 3

Erik Bernhardsson

Here’s a dumb extremely accurate rule I’m postulating* for software engineering projects: you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem. The same reasoning applies to system design but with a very different conclusion. This is what I’ve noticed: Don’t factor out shared code between two classes.

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The software engineering rule of 3

Erik Bernhardsson

Here’s a dumb extremely accurate rule I’m postulating* for software engineering projects: you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem. The same reasoning applies to system design but with a very different conclusion. This is what I’ve noticed: Don’t factor out shared code between two classes.

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How to Conduct Effective System Design Interviews with a Virtual Whiteboard

CodeSignal

Join CodeSignal CEO Tigran Sloyan and Co-Founder Sophia Baik in Data-Drive Recruiting Episode #40 as they discuss how to conduct an effective system design interview with a virtual whiteboard. Thus, for this blog post, we mean system design interviews when we say whiteboarding interviews. more below).

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

At Google, he was a remarkable Software Engineer. David’s main areas of investigation are as under: Parallel computing Computer architecture Distributed computing Workload Embedded system. Article – the design of XPRS Article – the case for Networks of Workstations. He served for 40 years.

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Making Apache Kafka Serveless: Lessons From Confluent Cloud

Confluent

Serverless offerings in the cloud are a favorite among software engineers—a prime example are object stores such as AWS S3. For the system designer, however, it is an engineering challenge […].

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Recycling robotics firm Glacier emerges from stealth with $4.5M

TechCrunch

Areeb Malik used to be a software engineer at Facebook, and Rebecca Hu worked at Bain and Company. Colorado-based AMP is probably the best known, while big companies like Apple have their own in-house system designed to strip iPhones down to their reusable parts.