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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

.” Contentstack, which was founded in 2018, was created on the back of fifteen-year-old consulting firm Raw Engineering and Built.io, an app development platform that Raw Engineering launched in 2013. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

TechCrunch

“This includes cutting non-performing products, decreasing R&D and general and administrative expenses, and doubling down on creative strategies to recover customer acquisition cost instantly to reduce burn associated with growth.” Dear Sophie: Will a doctor get a green card faster than an engineer? .

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. After a successful period as VP of Engineering at FreeAgent, Maria recently took up a whole new challenge.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

New trends, emerging technologies (containerisation, functional programming, languages, distributed systems, CRFTs, newsql etc.) To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. that are increasingly important to be familiar with. Sponsors and Partners.

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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. Achieving this global vision is challenging and requires some strategy.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Those are opportunities you can create to stretch engineers,” he says. More consistent, practical procedures like pair programming are great, but sometimes the nature of the projects don’t always support that.”.