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The startup founders' guide to software delivery

CircleCI

Full disclosure: I’m the CTO of a CI/CD company, so I will be encouraging you to use CI and CD throughout this guide. As a 20 year software industry veteran, four-time startup founder, and three-time CTO, I know that time is one of the most valuable resources a startup has on its side. Make time to address and work down technical debt.

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While those simple systems can technically be considered distributed, when engineers refer to distributed systems they’re typically talking about massively complex systems made up of many moving parts communicating with one another, with all of it appearing to an end-user as a single product, says Nora Jones, a senior software engineer at Netflix.

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

A system of A-B testing different versions of your software lets you see how different flavors of that software can perform against similar audiences. LaunchDarkly allows developers to deploy new software releases in a controlled fashion. JM: Edith Harbaugh, you are the CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly. SPONSOR MESSAGE].

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Made of Air, a maker of ‘carbon negative’ thermoplastics, locks in $5.8M

TechCrunch

Also participating are Patrick Pichette (former CFO of Google & chairman of the Board of Twitter), EQT Group, Thomas Von Koch (CEO & cofounder of EQT Group), Tuesday Capital, the co-founders of Pexip, and Olympic gold medalist skier, Aksel Lund Svindal. Berlin-based climate tech startup, Made of Air , has closed a €5 million (~$5.8

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Just one problem: when you get a new codec, you need new hardware.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? Cofounders Nick Beste and Kevin Carlow saw the success stories from female-centric companies like Tupperware, Silpada, and Partylite and thought, why not ?

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. “As companies develop new hardware, new models, or expand their geographic and customer base, new training data is required to ensure models perform adequately,” Behzadi told TechCrunch via email.

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