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Tackling large user traffic with Ajay Sampat, Sr. Engineering Manager, Lyft

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In our first episode of Breaking 404 , a podcast bringing to you stories and unconventional wisdom from engineering leaders of top global organizations around the globe, we caught up with Ajay Sampat , Sr. Engineering Manager, Lyft to understand the challenges that engineering teams across domains face while tackling large user traffic.

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Cortex snags $2.25M seed to build services catalog for development teams

TechCrunch

Developers use a lot of services to create applications, and while service meshes define how these services work together, just getting a grip on the services a team uses is usually tracked manually in spreadsheets. It can help engineers create a catalog of services automatically. One thing is clear in the cloud native world.

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Developer Experience at Netlify

Netlify

I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” At the time, I had never written an article, been to a conference, or participated in open source. This product embodied so much of what I valued about Developer Experience. I thought it sounded amazing.

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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

TechCrunch

Mintlify , a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 CEO Han Wang says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and doubling Mintlify’s core, three-person team by the end of the year. ” Image Credits: Mintlify.

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Three Salesforce AI pioneers launch Faros AI to bring order to engineering operations

TechCrunch

When the three founders of Faros AI were working at Salesforce , they helped develop the company’s artificial intelligence, known as Einstein. While the goal of Einstein was to help companies become more data-driven , the engineering team building it experienced the same pain of tracking engineering operations data as any other company.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” ” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project.

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The Launch of Kentik’s First Open Source Project: Mobx Form

Kentik

Today we’re excited to announce we published our first open source project on GitHub and npm. However, with browsers becoming more interactive, libraries have been created to help developers implement robust, nontrivial forms. It’s now meeting the needs of developers here at Kentik. So what is the project?