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A Vine mess: The choice between rebooting and reviving old software

TechCrunch

Are the problems Vine is facing even technical in nature, or does it have to do with the core business model? The trouble with Vine The trouble facing Vine has nothing to do with its tech. Reviving parts of a codebase is like changing a plane’s engine while it’s mid-flight. How do you proceed? Revive or reboot?

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It turns out that being able to write software is only a small part of the job.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year. about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. And today, the cloud is obviously here… I mean, despite what some people may think about cloud adoption 2. The genesis.

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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. Much like the classic No Silver Bullet paper on software productivity, none of these things in themselves were a dramatic improvement.

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Why we built it: Inside the mind of application security innovator Christien Rioux

Lacework

Today, we’re featuring Christien Rioux, an application security expert with more than 30 years of computer programming and software engineering experience. Q: What first sparked your interest in engineering? Q: What would you be doing if you weren’t an engineer? A: You can’t just be an engineer.

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Four things that matter in the AI hype cycle

CIO

This paradigm shift placed a dual burden on engineering and technical leaders. First, there’s the internal demand to understand how your organization is going to adopt these new tools and what you need to do to avoid falling behind your competitors. How do you choose the right vector database? Enter vector embeddings.

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

TechCrunch

Its Chicago-based founder and CEO Karl Hughes describes the firm as “a superniche content marketing production company, producing technical content for companies that want to reach software engineers.” Our discussion covered a lot of ground, from what he has learned and his ambitions to Draft.dev’s process.