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Steve Conway

I am a senior developer at Scott Logic, based in Edinburgh. I work mostly on backend services and cloud applications these days, coding in Java and Python. I've recently been getting up to speed with the current capabilities of LLMs, where everything is on a massively different scale from when I used neural networks in my PhD many years ago.
Data Engineering
We look at what has changed between Apache Spark 2.4.x and 3.5.1, describing some of the new functionality and the significant boost in performance .
Data Engineering
A comparative analysis of three leading Business Intelligence Tools, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon Quicksight and Tableau. We focus on cloud platform usage, and are interested in functionality and ease of use by novice BI users.