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Software companies aren't made of code, much like
bakeries aren't made of bread.
Software companies are made of
*processes that produce and maintain code*.
Software is a by-product of these processes.
It's not even the *final* product — it's a means to an end.
The final product is a solution to a business problem.
The Machine That Makes the Thing Is More Valuable Than the Thing
François Chollet
The core Azure technologies used to implement data engineering workloads include:
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• Azure Stream Analytics
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Databricks
Data engineering in Microsoft Azure - Training
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You likely know what this means
even if you don’t know it in those words.
The hype cycle, as defined by Gartner, [which tracks it](https://www.gartner.com/en/chat/gartner-hype-cycle),
is that series of cyclical events
that happens around nearly all emerging technologies:
the breakthrough,
the “peak of inflated expectations,”
the disillusionment,
the period of actual serviceable uses of the tech,
and the time when it’s adopted.
That pinnacle is the groan time,
the moment Justin Bieber drops more than $1 million
on an NFT.
The moment Facebook buys Oculus.
The moment the bodega starts taking bitcoin
and you know you’ll never be able to escape this thing,
whatever it is.
This Is the Worst Part of the AI Hype Cycle
Angela Watercutter
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