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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Today, full subscribers got access to a comprehensive Senior-and-above tech compensation research. Source: Cognition So far, all we have is video demos, and accounts of those with access to this tool. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers.

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

With full-remote work, the risk is higher that someone other than the employee accesses the codebase. At the very least, far more logging is in place, and it can be easier to detect when larger parts of the codebase are accessed and copied across the network. Full subscribers can access a list with links here.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

The rise of the internet and web-based computing (1989) ARPANET's influence expanded in the 1980s when the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNet) provided access to a network of supercomputers across the US. What was the other driver of adoption? were in english only.

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The state of startup funding

The Pragmatic Engineer

year low) Series A & B investments are back at 2020 levels (almost a 3-year low) Series C & E  investments are back at 2018 levels (a 5-year low) Series E+ are back at 2020 levels, but on an upwards trend Exits are at 2013 levels (a 10-year low!) In the US: Angel and seed investments are back at 2020 levels (a 2.5-year

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

A first, smaller wave of these stories included Magic.dev raising $100M in funding from Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub from 2018-2021,) and Daniel Gross (cofounder of search engine Cue which Apple acquired in 2013,) to build a “superhuman software engineer.”

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

This was around 2013, and EC2 was one of the hottest services at Amazon. Right at the start, I still had GitHub access and did some reviews. ” Amazon I attribute a lot of things to luck, and how I ended up at Amazon was one of these. Being the CEO, I got to learn so much of this!