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Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M

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A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. In the worst case, the consequences can be severe.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Crypto tax prep, no-code survey, 4 VCs discuss how to pitch them

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Performing due diligence is critical, but it won’t give you all the information you need to approach a VC. Likewise, one investor may ask to review your deck in detail; another may prefer a probing one-on-one conversation. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. Let’s review a case study and see how we can start to realize benefits now. Instead of directly having the LLM output test records, we would have the LMM output Python code.

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Top 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019

The Crazy Programmer

This data is according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019. 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019. This language can fetch the developers a salary much closer to around six-figure due to the dependency of Apple on this language. So, here is the list of a top paying programming languages in the market.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more. PM PST, 3.30

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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

Erik Bernhardsson

Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. Software estimation. So far so good, but let’s really try to understand what this means in terms of software estimation. Why software tasks always take longer than you think. The code is on my Github , as usual.

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Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service

TechCrunch

After a launch on Product Hunt in 2019 offering “complex automation made easy, and with no code,” Bryant Chou, a founder at WebFlow, put money into the company. Bain had contacted the startup then, stayed in touch, and later did due diligence on it by talking about Alloy with e-commerce startups in its own portfolio.