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Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

TechCrunch

The company claims that there’s an estimated 1 million software engineering job openings in Latin America, but fewer than 100,000 professionals that have training suitable for those roles. Lambda School’s ISA terms ask students to pay 17% of their monthly salary for 24 months once they earn $4,167 monthly. The Henry team.

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Deploying Ruby AWS Lambda functions with CDK

MagmaLabs

Now, let's run the cdk bootstrap command, and the output should be something like: Creating a New Ruby Lambda Function. Our first step will be to create a new lambda function with a Ruby runtime; we can easily add that to our stack code with the following: Now we need to create the function handler. aws/config file. Thanks for reading.

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How to Create Your First Lambda Function on AWS

MagmaLabs

In the beginning, the documentation for AWS LAMBDAS can be intimidating at times, but don’t worry, in this post, I will help you with the first steps to create an AWS LAMBDA Function. What’s a Lambda Function??. AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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From “Secondary Storage” To Just “Storage”: A Tale of Lambdas, LZ4, and Garbage Collection

Honeycomb

Enter AWS Lambda. Amazon’s marketing of Lambda focuses on its use cases for data pipelines and as the basis of serverless API backends, but doesn’t dwell on what the service actually is: CPUs on demand, sold in 100ms increments. We use Lambda to accelerate the “secondary” part of secondary storage queries.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

I'm excited for a world where a normal software developer doesn't need to know about CIDR blocks to connect a Lambda with an RDS instance. Building and running software was convoluted enough pre-cloud, and has gotten a lot more complex over the years. Vertical toys. Welcome, Cloud 2.0. It's going to be a fun decade for tech!

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$10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition

TechCrunch

That certainly seems high compared to other coding bootcamps like Lambda School, which reportedly has around a ~30% placement rate — and it’s worth noting that many of the best-known coding bootcamps are believed to have exaggerated their placement numbers.