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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu.

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David Patterson Biography

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He is best known for his operating systems, central processing units, and programming languages. Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. At Google, he was a remarkable Software Engineer. David’s work dealt with software engineering. Personal Life and Education.

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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

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In this interview, Nallappan has much to share on dynamic cloud architecture, cloud cost containment, developing a cloud-conscious culture, and why it makes sense to give engineers financial goals when giving them ownership over their cloud estates. How has your role shifted through that trajectory? As computers evolved, so did I.

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Dragos raises $110M Series C as demand to secure industrial systems soars

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Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. Lee said the company’s priority had been to work on its threat platform, and less selling it.

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Toast’s Aman Narang and BVP’s Kent Bennett on how customer obsession is everything

TechCrunch

It had a few things going for it, of course — founder Aman Narang hailed from Endeca, where he was a software engineer and product lead with a reputation for being able to ship a lot of software quickly. Bessemer led the company’s Series B financing in 2016. ” From there, it became his obsession.

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Autify advances no-code AI-powered software testing automation platform with $10M Series A

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While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time.

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Early Coinbase backer Garry Tan is keeping the “vast majority” of his shares because of this deal

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So I jumped ship and worked on our third $125 million seed fund back in 2016. They used their advantage in operating systems to build applications, and then OS and applications together allowed them to also build server software. It was in super great shape. And it’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.