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Uber’s Data Platform in 2019: Transforming Information to Intelligence

Uber Engineering

Uber’s busy 2019 included our billionth delivery of an Uber Eats order, 24 million miles covered by bike and scooter riders on our platform, and trips to top destinations such as the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, and the … The post Uber’s Data Platform in 2019: Transforming Information to Intelligence appeared first on Uber Engineering (..)

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Building an an Early Stage Startup: Lessons from Akita Software

The Pragmatic Engineer

In this issue, we cover: How Akita was founded On cofounders Raising funding Pivoting and growing the company On hiring The tech stack The biggest challenges of building a startup For this article, I interviewed Jean directly. So we started to build API specs on top of our API security product. We pivoted to API observability in 2020.

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

He’s solved interesting engineering challenges along the way, too – like building observability for Amazon’s EC2 offering, and being one of the first engineers on Uber’s observability platform. The focus seemed to shift to: invent something new → build a service for it → ship it.

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Telco Enterprise Data Platforms: Key Success Factors in Building for an AI Future

Cloudera

Since 5G networks began rolling out commercially in 2019, telecom carriers have faced a wide range of new challenges: managing high-velocity workloads, reducing infrastructure costs, and adopting AI and automation. The post Telco Enterprise Data Platforms: Key Success Factors in Building for an AI Future appeared first on Cloudera Blog.

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Netflix Hack Day?—?November 2019

Netflix Tech

Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. November 2019 was originally published in Netflix TechBlog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Lyft in Trouble

The Pragmatic Engineer

in funding before going public in 2019, at a value of $29B. Could we be seeing a reckoning for VC-funded companies that struggle to build a profitable business? Lyft is a rideshare platform that’s a direct competitor to Uber, operating in the US and Canada. This is less than it attracted in fundraising. net loss, with $1.8B

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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.” AI dev tool startups need outlandish claims to grab attention.