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Vectorized announces $15.5M investment to build simpler streaming data tool

TechCrunch

Gallego points out that teams building data streaming applications have been getting lost in the complexity and he recognized an opportunity to build a company to simplify that. It’s built to be a Kafka replacement, while remaining Kafka-compatible to help deal with backwards compatibility.

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How Platform Engineering Tackles a New Software Crisis

Xebia

In this post, I’ll explore why history repeats itself and how modern solutions like Platform Engineering can help solve the challenges of today. But first, let’s take a quick look back at the original software crisis to understand the parallels. It could be the key to resolving many of our current challenges.

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

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Fleet enables teams building their own DIY security and IT solutions to get the best of both worlds.” Wasserman was a software engineer on the security team at Meta (formerly Facebook) and cofounded two companies, Kolide and Dactiv, before settling in at Fleet. But then they’re stuck with maintenance.

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Software DevOps platform Gearset raises $55M

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Kevin Boyle said that the new money will be put toward expanding Gearset ’s product offering, growing its sales and marketing functions, and scaling the team across the U.S. According to Boyle, they realized there was an opportunity to improve the tooling in the Salesforce ecosystem, which led them to found Gearset.

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$10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition

TechCrunch

For Alchemy, the acquisition seems like a fit considering the company’s goal is to be the starting point for developers looking to build apps on the blockchain. It’s often referred to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) of web3 and says it has seen a 10x increase in the number of teams building on its platform over the past 12 months.

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Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte

TechCrunch

So he set out with a small team to build out the infrastructure tooling to make it easier for these teams to build their models and put them into production. But there was always friction between the software engineers and machine learning specialists. .” Image Credits: Union.ai

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

It’s a role that typically requires at least a bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or a related field. It’s a role that not only requires technical skills, but also leadership and communication skills as well to work across departments and to manage teams of engineers.