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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

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trillion industry in the United States — a complex ecosystem of lenders, owners, developers, architects, general contractors, subcontractors and more. Poor communication : With so many different parties both in the field and in the office, it is often difficult to relay information from one party to the next. Design and engineering.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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The company released a fix 78 minutes later, but making it required users to manually access the affected devices, reboot in safe mode, and delete a bad file. It can take time to test each update to make sure it works before rolling it out time bad actors can take advantage of. An automated fix wasnt released until three days later.

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The True Cost of Neglecting Quality Assurance: Lessons from Recent Tech Failures

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The Importance of Quality Assurance in Software Development The pressure to deliver software quickly and cost-effectively is among the highest priorities of business leaders. However, recent high-profile tech failures serve as stark reminders of the critical importance of robust Quality Assurance (QA) practices.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

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Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies.

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Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps

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Users don’t look kindly on poor experiences — 88% say they’ll abandon apps based on minor glitches, according to software testing vendor Qualitest (which admittedly has a horse in the race). “There are tools developed by companies like Applitools, Test.ai ” Image Credits: Mobot.

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7 sins of software development

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Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. Opinionated programmers, demanding stakeholders, miserly accountants, and meeting-happy managers mix in a political layer that makes a miracle of any software development work happening at all.

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

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Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. We see this as a strategic priority to improve developer experience and productivity,” he says.