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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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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. The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! Netflix Hack Day?—?Fall

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

  He then worked at the casual games company Zynga, building their in-game advertising platform. Joshua is currently VP of Product & Strategy at VMware, a cloud computing and virtualization technology company. This project’s advancements laid the groundwork for many technologies still with us today, seven decades later.

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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.

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Building end-to-end security for Messenger

Engineering at Meta

This is the most significant milestone yet for this project, which began in earnest after Mark Zuckerberg outlined his vision for it in 2019. End-to-end encryption isn’t about the technology at its core. Some of these just had to be rebuilt from scratch, while others required deploying new applied privacy technology.

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Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved

The Pragmatic Engineer

Datadog is a leading observability tooling provider which went public in 2019, with a current market cap of $28B. A quick summary of these technologies: Prometheus : a time series database. However, you would need to hire and staff a dedicated engineering team to build and run that infra. But why is this?

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