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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

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In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

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CEO Jorey Ramer, who co-founded the company with Ryan Donnelly (VP of engineering), also said that another part of the investment will be used to enhance the AI tech that underpins Super’s service and pricing plans. Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties. More on that below.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

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Listen to more than 70 speakers coming from the biggest companies like Ebay, Google, Spotify, IBM and NASA introducing you to some exciting topics, like: Software Design Open Source Security Architectural Design Service Mesh Apache APISIX. that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. Topics to be discussed.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

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Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

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You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Jason Cox is Director of Systems Engineering at the Walt Disney Company. Gareth Rushgrove is a software and operations engineer.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

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In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong.

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

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I wrote The Future of DevSecOps in June 2019 after gathering insights from IT professionals who foresaw: greater adoption, security being ingrained in development, and, AI/ML-driven automation. Security automation and real-time protection are the key criteria for ensuring the success of the DevSecOps movement.