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Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

What if hardware product managers had tools as good as those available for software PMs? “We’ve shipped hardware and software products across industries and we deeply understand the problem space.” ” — overview of how hardware products are made. The company raised a $1.2 ” — team slide.

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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

TechCrunch

and then an engineering manager at Dialogflow. Inworld-generated characters undergo a “training” process before they’re ready to interact and test, optionally in virtual reality via Inworld’s Oculus companion app. It’s then when the real stress-testing will begin. Image Credits: Inworld AI.

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3 Conferences Organized by DevNetwork in August

Apiumhub

Jameson – Engineer manager at Monte Carlo Data Jiri Kobelka – CEO and founder at Tatum …and many more Developer Week Cloud X will have different stages that include live keynote talks, technical workshops, multi-speaker talks, panel talks, and interactive audience Q&A. Interested in attending?

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RAN intelligent controller – the innovation engine in O-RAN

Capgemini

Separating control plane functions from the base station hardware and centralizing them in a software-defined and cloud-native environment greatly enhances the Radio Access Network (RAN) capabilities. RIC addresses several challenges of deploying and operating 5G networks. It can then flexibly configure optimization policies.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Although many engineers dislike whiteboard interviews, it is the holy grail of software architects. While candidates take the test on a whiteboard, notice their body language—are they relaxed while explaining the system? Engineering Managers. Look for engineering management forums. Management skills.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Although many engineers dislike whiteboard interviews, it is the holy grail of software architects. While candidates take the test on a whiteboard, notice their body language—are they relaxed while explaining the system? Engineering Managers. Look for engineering management forums. Management skills.

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Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020

Honeycomb

We suspected a hardware issue, terminated the instance, and brought up a new one, which resolved the problem. We created a follow-up task to augment the self-healing mechanisms with a more comprehensive liveness test. As our Platform Engineering Manager, Ben Hartshorne , said, “We believe in the power of conversation.”