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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The segment really took off around 2018, although Cloud9 – which AWS acquired in 2017 – was founded in 2010. Codesandbox started out as a web IDE in around 2018, but expanded since. CDE vendors: a definite trend With more than 20 players in this space, let’s begin with a timeline of when the products launched.

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Anomalo for Advanced Data Quality

Snowflake

Maintaining the quality and integrity of this data as it persists and moves through our organization's systems is crucial to our operations and compliance. Anomalo was founded in 2018 by two Instacart alumni, Elliot Shmukler and Jeremy Stanley. While working together, they bonded over their shared passion for data.

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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

Netflix Tech

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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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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Did Automattic commit open source theft?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Corporate conflict recap Automattic is the creator of open source WordPress content management system (CMS), and WordPress powers an incredible 43% of webpages and 65% of CMSes. WP Engine raised $250M in private equity funding in 2018 from Silver Lake Partners. Automattic raised $980M in venture funding and was valued at $7.5B

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How Games Typically Get Built

The Pragmatic Engineer

Top image: The prototype of Sea of Thieves (Rare, 2018) developed in the Unity game engine. Programmers are building core systems, artists are establishing the visual aesthetic and style of the game, and designers are establishing gameplay, long-term progression and retention. Prototype vs final version. Prototyping.

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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.” And COBOL was just one of many attempts.