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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

TechCrunch

TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Porsche is now joining other car makers in signing solar energy deals , Jaclyn writes. The luxury car maker signed a 25-year deal with Cherry Street Energy in Georgia just days after Ford announced its deal for solar energy.

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GreenForges digs deep to farm underground

TechCrunch

The pilot program will place the farms 15 meters deep, but GreenForges has plans and models for farms up to 30 meters deep. According to Labrie, moving the vertical farms from above ground to below comes with a host of other benefits, some directly solving the largest obstacle controlled environment agriculture farming faces — energy costs.

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Interview with Annie Freeman, Green Software Expert

Apiumhub

Our first interview was with Paola Annis , engineering manager at Microsoft and founding member of the Green Software Foundation , and now we had the pleasure of having an interview with Annie Freeman. As the cost of renewable energy continues to decrease, it will become more cost-effective to run software on renewable energy sources.

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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

CIO

Developing a leader is costly for you personally because it takes up a great deal of your time and energy. To better support your engineers and avoid these issues, leaders need to be able to clearly articulate the different competencies needed to be a successful engineering manager versus staying in a technical track,” says Schmidt.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I was able to learn from great backend, infrastructure, platform, and ops engineers and get a sense for both how they thought and what problems were important to them.

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From OOP to FP by Joaquin Azcarate – backend developer at Apiumhub in Software Crafters Barcelona

Apiumhub

5 tips about using functional programming patterns by Erik Torres Serrano – Tech Lead at LIFULL Connect There are great teams out there who are obsessed with the idea of breaking down complex problems into smaller, easier to solve problems. Join us and save the date: October 23-24, 2021. Location: BAU Barcelona.

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). Motivation represents a positive energy, at the other end of the spectrum is we have burnout. Vigor is characterised by high levels of energy and mental resilience while working. A resource can be job-related or personal.