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Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’

TechCrunch

They came back together in 2016 with the idea for Jellyfish that came out of their own experiences and challenges of running big engineering teams — namely trying to link the business up with what the engineers are doing. billion in 2011. Jellyfish dashboard. Image Credits: Jellyfish.

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Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware

The Parallax

That’s 70 percent more than it removed in 2016. And of all the malicious apps submitted to Google Play, only 1 percent of them make it past Google’s filters to consumers, Google Play product manager Andrew Ahn tells The Parallax. Maybe Google is getting better at detecting stuff, but it’s still more dangerous than before.”.

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With.app, Google plans to build a safer Web

The Parallax

And since February 2015, when Google bought.app for $25 million (a price that blew past previous TLD-selling records, until August 2016, when website certificate authority Verisign bought.web for $135 million ), Google has been figuring out exactly what to do with it. on May 8, 2018. Photo by Seth Rosenblatt/The Parallax.

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Inc. 5000 Series DC Metro Recognizes AgileEngine as a Regional Leader

Agile Engine

AgileEngine occupies the 176th position in this year’s Inc 5000 Series for DC Metro based on the company’s 70% growth in 2016–2018. In comparison, the growth rate of the greater economy averaged 10% in 2016–2018. Headquartered in McLean, AgileEngine has grown from 121 to 300+ people in 2016–2018. Named the Inc.

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Primer: Why Google is pushing HTTPS

The Parallax

The FCC in 2016 fined the telecommunications company $1.35 Adrienne Porter Felt, an engineering manager at Google who spearheaded the company’s push to encourage HTTPS adoption, said at Google’s I/O developer conference earlier this year that in 2015, fewer than a third of all sites loaded in Chrome used it.

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Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2019

Github

This year, we asked former students—people who joined our programs in 2014 through 2016—about where they ended up after their time as a student. Employers or engineering managers will find out: Which geographies have flourishing student developer communities. We received responses from nearly 16,000 students and 100 educators.

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Netlify Milestones on the road to 1 Million Devs

Netlify

On Jan 01, 2016 Netlify Co-Founder Matt Biilmann wrote, “ Starting today, we’re offering Free SSL to all our users. On Aug 30, 2016 Netlify CTO David Calavera wrote, “ Today, we’re very excited to introduce our solution to these problems [manual CI and CD limitations], Deploy Previews. Read more about this milestone.