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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

Founders : Subomi Oluwalana, the CEO, and Emmanuel Aina, Convoy’s chief operating officer, are software engineers who worked together at Tangerine Africa and independently at various local and international tech startups. Eni Joshua, on the other hand, is a software engineer who has worked with a couple of startups.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

CIO

s a pressing issue not unique to Travelers, but Mannoochahr sees that in order to deliver on those disciplines advancing analytics to foster a healthier business, he and his team recognize the need to cast a wider net. that cover areas of software engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and architecture, for instance.

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5 hot IT hiring trends — and 5 going cold

CIO

In key function areas, like data science, software engineering, and security, talent supply remains as tight or tighter than before.” The business keeps a high performer who would have left without the opportunity to advance. “Recent layoffs from digital companies will ease but not solve the talent challenge,” Mok says.

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

In episode 729 of Software Engineering Daily, Jeff Meyerson talks with our own Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly, about feature flagging. This episode was originally published on December 11, 2018 on the Software Engineering Daily site. Jeff Meyerson (JM): Releasing software has inherent risk.

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Deploying Ruby AWS Lambda functions with CDK

MagmaLabs

Net, or Go ) to write infrastructure as code. It will create IAM roles to grant permissions required to perform deployments, an S3 bucket to store CDK App assets, and the CloudFormation template files. Reading Time: 2 minutes What is Cloud Development Kit (CDK). It is an open-source tool created by the AWS team. aws/config file.

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Code Review Services from Senior Architects

Mobilunity

Since software development constantly evolves, you may need to revise your code at least once a year. Codebase analysis will let you improve the performance and responsiveness of your app, making your codebase more stable and secure. This results in engineers’ better performance and higher productivity.

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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

Erik Bernhardsson

A bad system thinks of salary increases in relative terms (eg top performers get +5%). A good system has a clear link between performance and salary that people understand. With productivity , I also mean value , so the diagonal line represents the curve where the net benefit of an employee is exactly $0. Phew, that was a lot!