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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO

In February, CEO Marc Benioff told CNBCs Squawk Box that 2025 will be the first year in the companys 25-year history that it will not add more software engineers. Months before, employment site Indeed noted that the number of job postings for software developers in July 2024 was at its lowest level in nearly four years.

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The best software engineering conferences of 2019

TechBeacon

As a developer, you expect to get practical, technical content when you go to a conference, but you also want to network with other engineers in your field—hopefully, with people who are dealing with some of the same challenges as you. And if you're like most of your peers, expo halls are a lower priority.

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Technical interview platform Byteboard spins out of Google’s Area 120, takes on new funding

TechCrunch

Launched in 2019, Byteboard’s idea was to create a tool that would make the technical interview experience less tedious and more effective. The team noted at the time that the current process for interviewing software engineers didn’t really work for measuring how well someone would do in a day-to-day engineering job.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu. Nvidia acquired DPU maker BlueField in 2019, while AMD snatched up Pensando late last year.

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Doppler lands $20M to help companies manage their app secrets

TechCrunch

He also did a stint as a software engineer at Uber, where he worked on the app safety team. Thomas Piccirello, Doppler’s other cofounder, was previously a software engineer at BlackRock and founded a cloud-based insurance claims management startup (AI Insurance). Growing industry. million in revenue per year.

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Are you ready for MLOps? 🫵

Xebia

In 2019 alone the Data Scientist job postings on Indeed rose by 256% [2]. 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. These days Data Science is not anymore a new domain by any means.

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Dear Sophie: How long am I required to stay at my current job after I get my green card?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie, I’m a software engineer currently on an H-1B. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.