Programming Throwdown – Details, episodes & analysis

• James Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco
  • System Administrator to DevOps
  • Difference between DevOps and MLOps
  • Getting Started with DevOps
• Luke Marsden: CEO of Helix ML
  • How to start a business at 15 years old
  • BTRFS vs ZFS
  • MLOps: the intersection of software, DevOps and AI
  • Fine-tuning AI on the Cloud
  • Some advice for folks interested in ML Ops
• Yuval Fernbach: CTO MLOps & JFrog
  • Starting Qwak
  • Going from a jupyter notebook to production
  • ML Supply Chain
  • Getting started in Machine Learning
• Stephen Chin: VP of DevRel at Neo4J
  • Developer Relations: The Job
  • What is a Large Language Model?
  • Knowledge graphs and the Linkage Model
  • How to Use Graph databases in Enterprise
  • How to get into ML Ops

175: Resume Writing

Intro topic:  DSLR Photography vs Camera Phone

News/Links:

• Free Internet while flying by abusing edits to your profile name
  • https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/
• Making Animated Characters with AI Art
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28
• On 10x Engineers
  • https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/19/the-real-10x-developer-makes-their-whole-team-better/
• The Beauty and Challenges of AI-Generated Artistic Gymnastics
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJIYj3hPAU
    
    

Book of the Show

• Patrick: 
  • The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
    • https://amzn.to/3xNEoRB
• Jason: 
  • The Checklist Manifesto
    • https://amzn.to/3W2JjpM

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

• Patrick: 
  • Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo Switch)
  • https://amzn.to/3S9VJLf
• Jason: 
  • Amazon Q
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.amazon-q-vscode
    
    

Topic: Resume Writing (Courtesy of Matthew C.)

• Why have a resume?
  • Many jobs require it to get into the consideration
  • Today many are screened for keywords automatically
  • Log for future you
• What is a resume?
  • One-page description
  • Key accomplishments & experiences
  • Comparison to CV
  • References
• How to write a good resume?
  • Do’s
    • Include your github if it has good contributions
    • Be specific (dates, locations, skills)
    • Isolate your specific contributions
    • Be accurate/honest
    • Be concise
    • Be ready to discuss any point you have on the resume
    • List hobbies/activities/extracurriculars
  • Don’ts
    • Have mistakes (especially dates)
    • Use images (most companies use text extraction)
    • Use it as a design portfolio
    • Put social qualities (e.gs. hard-working, motivated, friendly)
    • Use fancy templates/tools
  • Resources
    • Manager Tools: How to scan resumes https://www.manager-tools.com/2016/05/how-scan-resume-part-1 
    • Google docs
    • Latex/Lyx for CVs
• How to think about your career and how it impacts your future resume writing (career planning)
  • Technologies and architectures more than specifics of project details
  • How various choices may age over time

- pganalyze: https://pganalyze.com/

- Weekly series "5mins of Postgres": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDV_1Dz2Ixgl1nT_3DUZVFw

- How Postgres chooses which index to use: https://pganalyze.com/blog/how-postgres-chooses-index

- CMU databases courses: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/courses/

- Postgres community: https://www.postgresql.org/community/

As well as social links:

- Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@lukas

- Twitter/X: @pganalyze, @LukasFittl

- GitHub: @pganalyze, @lfittl

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lfittl/ , https://www.linkedin.com/company/pganalyze/

Julia may be the most requested language we have ever received on the show, so Patrick and I took some time of the past few weeks to get familiar with Julia and share our findings. Overall, it's a really slick language that has data and process parallelism built into the language, so it will run on many threads or even many machines without having to design a communication system by hand. Show Notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2018/05/episode-77-julia.html

Writing documentation is an art and there aren't many cut-and-dry rules that will guarantee the right documentation quality. In this episode Patrick and I chat about our lessons learned and also cover a bunch of ways to document and write self-documenting code. Show Notes: http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2018/04/episode-76-code-documentation.html

Ever want to build your own robot? We explain how to do this using Arduino! Show notes: http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2018/03/episode-75-arduino.html

Today we discuss Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts with Amy Wan, CEO of Sagewise. Amy has a legal background and combines this with expertise in cryptocurrency, blockchain, ICOs, and smart contracts. Show Notes: http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2018/01/episode-74-cryptocurrency-smart.html

How can you use all of the computers in your lab/office at the same time to speed up tasks? Today we talk with Dori Exterman, CTO of Incredibuild, about parallel computing and the awesome tool Incredibuild has created that can run any multi-process program on several machines. Show Notes: http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2017/12/episode-73-parallel-computing-with.html

How can you maintain a separate version of your app/site in all langauges and locales? How do you handle right-to-left text, various currencies, and a bunch of languages with non-ascii characters? We explain all this and more in Internationalization! Show notes: http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2017/11/episode-72-internationalization.html

Today, we are going to talk about... office space! Not the hilarious 1999 movie directed by Mike Judge, but modern office spaces for engineers and developers. We cover office setups, desk setups, amenities, and more! We won't cover IDEs (check out episode 55 for that) but we do cover how to code comfortably. Show Notes: http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2017/10/episode-71-office-spaces.html