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

TechCrunch

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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Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-month-old startup that wants to help fintechs better manage fraud risk

TechCrunch

When Fang joined Uber’s risk team in 2016, there was a need to use Mastermind at dispatch time — when drivers and riders are matched. “While it was originally built for fraud, it came to be used for other cases such as safety and customer support also,” Diao said. “It It was making 10,000 decisions per second by the time I left.”.

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Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M

TechCrunch

” Based in San Francisco, Replit was co-founded by programmers Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and designer Haya Odeh in 2016. Before creating Replit, Amjad Masad worked in engineering roles at Yahoo and Facebook, where he built software development tooling. Replit offers a web-based IDE for software development.

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Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’

TechCrunch

As more companies become software companies, what is being created still needs to align with business objectives. Jellyfish believes this can be done by giving software engineering leaders the data and insights they need to do that. billion in 2011.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. At Google, he was a remarkable Software Engineer. Computer security Systems design Server Real-time computing Software deployment Elasticity and information technology Storage area network Workstation. David’s work dealt with software engineering.

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SQL Server 2016 Always Encrypted: Easy to Implement, Tough to Crack

Toptal

Microsoft addressed the need for an added level of security in SQL with the introduction of Always Encrypted functionality in SQL Server 2016. In this blog post, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Josip Saban explains how Microsoft’s Always Encrypted concept works, how it’s implemented, and why developers can’t afford to ignore it.

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

CIO

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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