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Tackling large user traffic with Ajay Sampat, Sr. Engineering Manager, Lyft

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In our first episode of Breaking 404 , a podcast bringing to you stories and unconventional wisdom from engineering leaders of top global organizations around the globe, we caught up with Ajay Sampat , Sr. Engineering Manager, Lyft to understand the challenges that engineering teams across domains face while tackling large user traffic.

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Three Salesforce AI pioneers launch Faros AI to bring order to engineering operations

TechCrunch

They wanted to make it easier for engineering management to look at data and figure out things like how long it will take from the point a developer finishes coding until that updated code lands in production in front of customers.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project. Ervin and Denis have assumed new jobs at Mozilla within the past several weeks, now working as senior engineering manager and product lead, respectively.

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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

TechCrunch

. “Documentation is the lifeline for junior engineers and those jumping into new codebases. For public-facing and open-source products, documentation has a direct impact on user adoption.” It helps senior devs save time from explaining their code to others in the future. ” Image Credits: Mintlify.

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

The Parallax

That is partly because of Android’s open-source origins, which fueled its early adoption—and to which Google has a stated commitment to remain true. Maybe Google is getting better at detecting stuff, but it’s still more dangerous than before.”.

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Cortex snags $2.25M seed to build services catalog for development teams

TechCrunch

In addition to the funding, which actually closed last year, the company has continued to build out the product and today it’s announcing Scorecards, a way for engineering managers to enforce services best practices. Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.