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      <title>Optimization in the Data Lake</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;When you’re optimizing a data lake, your only metrics    are cost and time. You’re working with&lt;br&gt;expensive clusters of worker machines,
        
      
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      <title>Why Engineers Love SCRUM Ceremonies</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;SCRUM ceremonies get a bad rap sometimes—too many meetings, not enough keyboards. But when they’re done right, they’re some of the most e
        
      
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      <title>Terraform Secret Placement</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:21:28 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;Terraform has its strengths and its challenges. Of its strengths, Terraform gets you referential integrity, reproducability, and a rich s
        
      
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      <title>Power Supplies for the Uninitiated</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:13:38 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;You’re choosing a power supply for a device, like a retro console.  The device has defined requirements, often noted on the device by the
        
      
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      <title>Know Your Binaries</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 05:39:52 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;It’s pretty hard to be clever if you’re an executable file.  Understanding how your programming interpreter views the world can save you 
        
      
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      <title>Scripting Editors: It Doesn&#39;t Have to be VIM</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:32:51 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;Putting a pin in the text editor holy war – do you use VIM, or Emacs?! We may point out hipster tendencies by using these “way better” vi
        
      
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      <title>On Developing Kubernetes Locally</title>
      <link>http://necessaryeval.com/2021/09/01/kubernetes-primer/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:19:51 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;Kubernetes has been a large force in the app deployment industry for some time now, and this article is by no means the authority on Kube
        
      
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      <title>MoSCoW Method of Software Proposals</title>
      <link>http://necessaryeval.com/2021/07/29/MoSCoW-Method-of-Software-Proposals/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:09:54 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;h2 id=&quot;MoSCoW-method&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#MoSCoW-method&quot; class=&quot;headerlink&quot; title=&quot;MoSCoW method&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;MoSCoW method&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature creep is a real th
        
      
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      <title>On Organizing Machine Learning Code</title>
      <link>http://necessaryeval.com/2021/04/15/On-Organizing-Machine-Learning-Code/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:17:51 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;Data Scientists breaking up their notebooks into standard methods (or modules) can improve their process without interrupting their workf
        
      
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      <comments>http://necessaryeval.com/2021/04/15/On-Organizing-Machine-Learning-Code/#disqus_thread</comments>
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      <title>ENV VARS (Environment Variables)</title>
      <link>http://necessaryeval.com/2021/01/28/env-vars/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 07:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;Environment Variables or “ENV vars” are under used and often misunderstood.&lt;br&gt;They are critical for separating configuration from any co
        
      
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      <comments>http://necessaryeval.com/2021/01/28/env-vars/#disqus_thread</comments>
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      <title>dsky</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:09:23 GMT</pubDate>
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          &lt;p&gt;You’re a developer. You work on several projects. You use version control,&lt;br&gt;probably git, and you have stuff you need to get done.&lt;br&gt;Y
        
      
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