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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

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Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent.

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Akuity raises $20M to simplify Kubernetes container management

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Co-founder and CEO Hong Wang says that the funding will enable Akuity to expand the size of its workforce while contributing to the open source community. Kubernetes is open source software for deploying and managing these containers. Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev believed there must be an easier way.

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

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“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. I think we can all do a better job,” author and developer marketing expert Adam DuVander says. DuVander was recommended to us by Karl Hughes, the CEO of Draft.dev, which specializes in content production for developer-focused companies.

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Cloud-Native Security Survey: Patterns and Tipping Points in New Report

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As our 2023 cloud-native security survey shows, life indeed moves fast in the cloud. Change also cycles rapidly, particularly with cloud-native application development, where everything from IP addresses to containers is ephemeral. Of 2,500+ survey respondents, greater than 50% represent enterprise-sized organizations.

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

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Developers can be a tough crowd. Coming up with relevant content that developers find interesting takes specific know-how, and this is where Draft.dev comes in. ” Hughes and his agency were recommended multiple times in our growth marketer survey, which we launched to surface experts that startups can work with. .”

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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

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Mintlify , a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 CEO Han Wang says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and doubling Mintlify’s core, three-person team by the end of the year. ” Image Credits: Mintlify.

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The Good and the Bad of TypeScript

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This is how developers often describe the open-source programming language introduced in 2012 by Microsoft. First rolled out in 1995, JS brought interactivity to previously lifeless websites and completely changed the front end development landscape. It is also used for mobile application development.