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      <description>A new tool to make Apache Iceberg metadata exploration faster and easier: Iceberg Lens. It turns complex metadata into an interactive graph with detailed inspection, designed for debugging and understanding table structure without manual file parsing.</description>
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      <title>Design Challenge: Integrate Kubernetes VPA with Apache Spark</title>
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      <title>Why I Switched From Backend to Big Data Engineer After 10&#43; Years</title>
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      <description>After over a decade of working as a backend engineer, I switched to a new domain. This post explores my unexpected transition into the world of Big Data and the motivations behind my career shift.</description>
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      <title>Effect of Tea Consumption on My Productivity</title>
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      <title>Practical Clean Coding: Naming</title>
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      <description>We write programs for humans, not computers. The first and most important step to writing readable, understandable, and maintainable code is proper naming.</description>
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      <title>Practical Clean Coding: A Comprehensive Guide to Maintainable Code</title>
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      <description>The first article in the “Practical Clean Coding” series, exploring the art of writing code that humans can understand and the core principles of creating maintainable software.</description>
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      <title>A Journey Through Code &amp; Life</title>
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      <description>Welcome to my blog! I’m Muhammed Demirbaş, and I’m excited to take you on a journey through my life as a software developer with over a decade of experience.</description>
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