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Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers

TechCrunch

For one, they wanted to offer personalized training to help people not just learn to code, but to become “exceptional” software engineers. But the problem is that only about 55% of bootcamp grads are getting a job as a software engineer, and of the ones that do, their median salary is only about $65,000.

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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

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Tonic is a “synthetic data” platform that transforms raw data into more manageable and private datasets usable by software engineers and business analysts. Tonic’s approach has the benefit of helping solve not just privacy issues, but also scalability challenges as datasets get larger and larger in size. Tonic’s team.

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

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Java Java is a programming language used for core object-oriented programming (OOP) most often for developing scalable and platform-independent applications. Its a common skill for developers, software engineers, full-stack developers, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, mobile app developers, backend developers, and big data engineers.

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

CIO

A platform-based approach to AI emphasizes building a scalable, reusable foundation that evolves with the organization, rather than developing costly, siloed solutions for individual use cases,” said Guan, supporting the notion that establishing standards to test outcomes of models is necessary.

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CI/CD Pipelines in the Cloud: How Cloud Hosting Is Accelerating Software Delivery

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In the fast-evolving world of software engineering, one of the most transformative innovations is the combination of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines with cloud hosting.

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Cloud modernization meets GenAI: new solutions expediate your efforts

CIO

Many legacy applications were not designed for flexibility and scalability. A faster time to market and a better customer experience GenAI copilots are well-established in the world of software engineering and will continue to proliferate and evolve.

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Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

TechCrunch

” Shamgunov, a former software engineer at Microsoft and Meta, founded SingleStore before incubating Neon at Khosla Ventures with Heikki Linnakangas and Stas Kelvich in 2021. Kelvich studied physics before joining embattled tech giant Yandex as a software engineer on the database team.