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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

TechCrunch

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.”

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The Top 13 Sessions From 2018 Ops and Dev Conferences

OverOps

Agile in 2018. At Serverless Computing London keynote, Charity explained what we mean when we say observability, what it means to have an observable system, how it connects to old methods of monitoring or debugging, and why the modern serverless software engineer should give a flying crap. The Z Garbage Collector.

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Longtime investor and operator Adam Nash says he just launched a new fintech startup

TechCrunch

All we really know at this point is that he co-founded the company with Alejandro Crosa, an Argentinian software engineer who most recently spent five months at Slack but logged more than three years at both Twitter and LinkedIn before that.

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Much Ado About OpenTelemetry

Honeycomb

I’m really excited to be joining Honeycomb this week as a Staff Software Engineer to allow me to keep pushing OpenTelemetry forward and to improve the lives of end users. This has been a big reason for my recent involvement with the Configuration Working Group and the Security Special Interest Group.

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The Top 13 Sessions From 2018 Ops and Dev Conferences

OverOps

Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST The Top 13 Sessions From 2018 Ops and Dev Conferences [link] pic.twitter.com/XHzCN72MmF. OverOps (@overopshq) December 18, 2018. Agile in 2018. Katie Bell , a Lead Engineer at Campaign Monitor, gave a talk at YOW! The Z Garbage Collector.

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Goto Copenhagen 2018

OpenCredo

Join us for Goto Copenhagen 2018, on the 19th to the 23rd of November! Our senior consultant, Fahran Wallace is also presenting her talk, Your Brain on Software Development - a talk for software engineers and architects alike, who are curious about how they make decisions, and how they think!

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Project SENECA: Making cloud-based software engineering faster, more sustainable and energy efficient

SIG

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