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Preparing for AI

O'Reilly

You are still responsible for delivering working software. OReilly author Andrew Stellman recommends several exercises for learning to use AI effectively. Unit tests are a useful exercise because testing logic is usually simple; its easy to see if the generated code is incorrect. Third, train yourself to use AI effectively.

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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team. We recommend against interview coding practice puzzle-type exercises, as we don’t ask those types of questions. The problems you are asked to solve are related to the work of the team.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. Metaflow removes this cognitive overhead.

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MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

O'Reilly

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. Software Architecture. The new category is often called MLOps.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. Metaflow removes this cognitive overhead.

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Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction

Randon ASCII

If you write “software engineer” then you get in trouble when the mortgage broker calls your employer. If you apply for a mortgage when your job title is emulation ninja then you are in a quandary. If you write that on the mortgage application then you look like a lunatic. Hypothetically.

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The TaskTalks Podcast is back: ‘A Day in the Life of a Senior Software Engineer’

Tasktop

For the first episode, one of our software engineers, Tim Van Der Kooi, interviewed Ryan Nosworthy. Ryan is a senior software engineer here at Tasktop, and he’s working on been working on Tasktop Viz, our new product that we unveiled at DOES 2019 last week. Highlights from this week’s episode. Soundcloud.