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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. Because someone made the economic decision that the cost of building that software was too high. Supply-demand of software engineers.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

David was the top fundraiser from 2006 to 2012. At Google, he was a remarkable Software Engineer. Computer security Systems design Server Real-time computing Software deployment Elasticity and information technology Storage area network Workstation. David’s work dealt with software engineering.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year.

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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

TechCrunch

The average salary for a software engineer is around €54,000. Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. According to a report by Dealroom.co

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer.

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Outgoing YC President Geoff Ralston: The market is changing; YC’s terms are not

TechCrunch

GR: I actually count my tenure at YC from just after 2006, when I left Yahoo [and] started hanging out with Paul [Graham] and company, so really, almost 16 years. We actually consider ourselves, more than anything else, a software platform. We’ve all been software engineers. Sam was a software engineer.

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