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Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

TechCrunch

The company claims that there’s an estimated 1 million software engineering job openings in Latin America, but fewer than 100,000 professionals that have training suitable for those roles. Lambda School’s ISA terms ask students to pay 17% of their monthly salary for 24 months once they earn $4,167 monthly. The Henry team.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Using Golang for your AWS Lambda Functions

Xebia

I was sparked on a XKE to do a short experiment with using Golang for my AWS Lambda Functions. Tutorial Let’s deploy a small stack including a single Lambda function. Sub /aws/lambda/${MyFunction} RetentionInDays: 7 A few things are going on here. This Makefile is used to compile the lambda function.

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How to Create Your First Lambda Function on AWS

MagmaLabs

In the beginning, the documentation for AWS LAMBDAS can be intimidating at times, but don’t worry, in this post, I will help you with the first steps to create an AWS LAMBDA Function. What’s a Lambda Function??. AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

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Deploying Ruby AWS Lambda functions with CDK

MagmaLabs

Now, let's run the cdk bootstrap command, and the output should be something like: Creating a New Ruby Lambda Function. Our first step will be to create a new lambda function with a Ruby runtime; we can easily add that to our stack code with the following: Now we need to create the function handler. aws/config file. Thanks for reading.

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Y Combinator widens its bet in edtech in latest batch

TechCrunch

In its latest batch, the famed accelerator had its highest number of edtech startups yet: 14 companies from around the world, working on everything from teacher monetization to homework apps to ways to train software engineers in an affordable fashion. Poliglota: A language school for Latin America. The future is consumer over B2B.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

I'm excited for a world where a normal software developer doesn't need to know about CIDR blocks to connect a Lambda with an RDS instance. Building and running software was convoluted enough pre-cloud, and has gotten a lot more complex over the years. Vertical toys. Welcome, Cloud 2.0. It's going to be a fun decade for tech!

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