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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

TechCrunch

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.”

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The Top 13 Sessions From 2018 Ops and Dev Conferences

OverOps

Agile in 2018. At Serverless Computing London keynote, Charity explained what we mean when we say observability, what it means to have an observable system, how it connects to old methods of monitoring or debugging, and why the modern serverless software engineer should give a flying crap. The Z Garbage Collector.

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Longtime investor and operator Adam Nash says he just launched a new fintech startup

TechCrunch

All we really know at this point is that he co-founded the company with Alejandro Crosa, an Argentinian software engineer who most recently spent five months at Slack but logged more than three years at both Twitter and LinkedIn before that.

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Bank of America’s big bet on AI started small

CIO

Few used the term agent, let alone agentic AI , in 2018, but the bank built a team of software engineers, linguistic specialists, and banking experts to create the small language model, which has been tuned over the years using customer feedback data from the call center.

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. When it came to attempting analyzing our hypotheses to standout amongst the most paramount open-source hackathons of 2018, there was no preferred choice over HackerEarth’s very own Djangothon.

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Weber acquires smart cooking startup June

TechCrunch

That partnership began with a cold email Van Horn received in 2018 from then-Weber CEO and current Executive Chairman Jim Stephen, the son of the company’s original founder. Weber also led June’s Series C funding round, a previously undisclosed final round of financing that Weber led in 2018 prior to this exit.

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Are you ready for MLOps? 🫵

Xebia

Operations ML teams are focused on stability and reliability Ops ML teams have roles like Platform Engineers, SRE’s, DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, IT Managers. The term has gained in popularity since 2018 [3] [4] , when the Machine Learning had undergone massive growth. If yes, go for it.