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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

CIO

Speaking at the CIO UK 100 awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Drake explained what it meant to be ranked the top CIO in the UK , how her tennis background shaped her leadership, why automation is freeing up her IT team, and how THG is supporting engineers relocating from war-stricken Ukraine.

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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

TechCrunch

The only team I’ve ever followed is the Cleveland Cavaliers, and that’s simply because I grew up near Cleveland (and, well, LeBron’s stardom didn’t hurt). Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture? Their in-game team members don this merch, some of which improves their game stats.

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Do Americans want to gamble on individual athletes? Marc Lore is betting on it

TechCrunch

Mojo , a seven-month-old, New York-based company, says it’s looking to build a new sports stock market that lets fans bet on athletes just like stocks. The company declined to answer our questions today, saying it’s “too early” in its trajectory.). — it will likely know exactly who its customers are.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. We hope you enjoy it.

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Digital Engineering – A new approach to product innovation and lifecycle management

Capgemini

“57% of manufacturing companies are not able to adequately create, capture, share, and reuse knowledge across functions,” reveals a recent digital engineering survey conducted by Capgemini Research Institute. For this transformation to happen, a new digital engineering system will need to be put in place. Let’s take sports for example.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.