TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Tech giants are increasingly looking for tech talent in Africa, where the number of developers reached 716,000 last year, up 3.8% from 2020, according to Google. In the last six months, Microsoft and Amazon have been on a recruitment drive that came along with enticing offers including relocation to their hubs in the U.S. and Europe, endearing themselves to the small but growing talent pool amid tough competition from other tech giants like Google, as well as startups.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Demand for both entry-level and highly skilled tech talent is at an all-time high, and companies across industries and geographies are struggling to find qualified employees. And, with 1.1 billion jobs liable to be radically transformed by technology in the next decade, a “ reskilling revolution ” is reaching a critical mass. Already underrepresented populations like workers without a four-year degree are four times more likely to work in highly automatable jobs than individuals with a bachelor’

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Programming Research Industry Meeting 72

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Valuations have been top of mind for the entire venture industry this year as many VCs try to navigate their overvalued portfolios and founders scramble to conserve cash and grow into their lofty valuations. So one might have predicted that valuations would fall off a cliff this year. But that hasn’t happened because venture investing just isn’t that simple.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Not only is Kelly Vaughn one of the pioneers in building thought-leadership content for the developer community, she’s one of the rare programmers who comes to the craft with the background of a trained therapist. From knowing what content devs need to grow to being able to recognize the cognitive-behavioral impacts of the developer experience, Kelly Vaughn is truly one of our most unique guests to date.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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KitelyTech

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Software development is a dynamic process that requires continuous monitoring, supervision, and process control. Any deviation from the standard workflow should be detected and corrected as soon as possible to prevent further issues. Non-conformance of processes, however, is fairly common in software development projects. To achieve a fault-proof software development process, you need to anticipate risks and implement best practices to mitigate them effectively.

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Software Development Software Review Software Development 52

The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Andrew had to touch some Pascal code. Yes, really. He writes: "I came across this section of code today and really wanted to find out who wrote it. Then I really wanted to find out who added the comment." { Ugly code follows, a loop would be nice }. { Seller #1 }. if not EOF then. begin. lsSName := FieldByName( 'txtname' ).AsString; if Length(FieldByName( 'txtsname' ).AsString) > 0 then. begin. lsSName := Concat(lsSName, ', ' + FieldByName( 'txtsname' )

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Advertising 43

Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 23, 2022

What is GitOps? Well, GitOps is a software development framework that enables organizations to continuously deliver software applications while efficiently managing IT infrastructure using Git as a single source of truth. GitOps, a subset of DevOps, combines Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps best practices to create an operating model for managing architecture and instantly reproducing the system’s cloud infrastructure based on the state of Git repos.

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