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Uber’s engineering level changes

The Pragmatic Engineer

Uber’s engineering leadership decided to bisect the level into L5A and L5B, where L5A mapped to what most of Big Tech calls “senior engineer” (getting complex, team-level projects done), and L5B was closer to what the tech industry usually expects of staff engineers (complex, cross-team-level projects.)

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Did Automattic commit open source theft?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Automattic is the VC-funded company behind WordPress, the largest ongoing contributor to the project, as well as the company that controls the commercial WordPress trademark. WP Engine raised $250M in private equity funding in 2018 from Silver Lake Partners. OpenAI’s impossible business projections.  According

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How Games Typically Get Built

The Pragmatic Engineer

Tommy has built his own video games, consulted on a wide variety of game projects, and for a decade has taught game development at various universities. Each project typically takes several years to create, with shifting hardware specifications and emerging competitors and trends to anticipate and react to, during the process.

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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

  Heavy development investment:  Automattic – a VC-funded company founded by Matt Mullenweg – is the largest contributor to Wordpress, paying  more than 100 staff  to work full-time on the project.  A company that raised $250M of funding from Silver lake Partners in 2018.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late.

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Useful Project Management Tips for Agile Development Teams

Knowledge Hut

Before proceeding, it is important to know that management of the task and a lengthy project is imperative for every development team for the precision of task and quality output. Earlier, the software development team used to take the assistance of the waterfall project management for the completion of the project management task.

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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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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.