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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. Although 2020 didn’t witness the series of mammoth deals in 2019 and didn’t reach the $2 billion mark, it proved to be a good year for acquisitions. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43 Briter Bridges pegged total 2020 VC for African startups at $1.31

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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. In 2020, McKinsey surveyed 440 large companies about their “ developer velocity” — meaning the practices that best tap the full potential of development talent. Right now, there are roughly 27 million developers on the job, 4.4

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% Full-stack web development. Information security software developers.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance. How Amazon thinks about metrics.

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Top 8 Web Design Trends in 2020

The Crazy Programmer

In 2020, minimalism and modern approach seems to be the ones that are on top. Any software development company can develop designs that are centered on the dark concept. A messy website isn’t considered flawed in 2020 as those designed well can quickly become crowd favorites. 3D and Virtual Reality.

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Signadot promises developers faster feedback loops

TechCrunch

Signadot , a startup that aims to simplify the development process for microservice-based applications by making it easier for developers to test their code, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed funding round. And what I realized was that my developers were spending a lot of time discovering issues late.

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A DevOps Guide for Product Managers

Speaker: Suzie Prince, Head of DevOps, Atlassian

Luckily, the culture of DevOps and the practice of Continuous Delivery supports product managers and their teams as modern software development evolves at a rapid pace. Wednesday November 18, 2020 at 1:30PM PDT, 3:30PM EST, 9:30PM GMT In this webinar, you will learn: What is DevOps. In this webinar, you will learn: What is DevOps.

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Shift Left Security? Development Does Not Want to Own It.

Speaker: Shlomo Bielak, CTO, Benchmark Corp

Shifting security left to the earliest part of development is currently in the spotlight in the developer world. What teams are now discovering is, this approach results in misdirected ownership for developers and a frustrated security team. Understand why Development doesn’t actually want to own security or production.

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

If so, it's time to look to no-code development. Join Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy, and learn how to leverage tech and drive agility with citizen development and the no-code movement. Tuesday December 15th, 2020 at 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT Your teams will be able handle more projects, and focus on the real challenges.

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM BST Navigating idle clusters and bottlenecks. And solutions for many of the challenges holding your team back - from "I don't have time," to niche knowledge and talent problems.

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The Retailer’s Playbook for Customer Acquisition

The economic disruption of 2020 has left retailers facing a host of barriers to growth. We developed this guide to help retailers build a data-centric acquisition program that lowers their acquisition costs, eliminates wasteful spending, attracts high-value customers and provides a competitive advantage in a tight market.

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Why Product Managers Must Relearn Their Customers

Speaker: Janelle Estes, CIO, User Testing

So how do you adapt your product development process knowing that your customer's behaviors and expectations have completely changed over the past year? In this webinar, you will learn: The critical areas during product design and development process when you need to reach out to customers. Integrating their feedback is the first step!

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems and has also come a long way in the decade since then.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage. March 11, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT.