DRY: The Unspoken Parts
Photo by Laine Cooper on UnsplashOne of the most common terms in software engineering is the DRY principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself), but many engineers associate this principle with “Don’t copy-paste lines of code.” This is a part of DRY; however, DRY is about duplication of knowledge.But first, why is duplication evil?The
Read moreThe Road to GraphQL At Enterprise Scale
From REST monolith to GraphQL Federation for API architecturePhoto by Jesse Bowser on UnsplashGraphQL was designed to allow your API to evolve continuously in response to new product requirements without the burden of versioning, simplify the process of getting data from different sources and support typings for API from the box.Our team
Read moreWhatsApp launches standalone smartwatch app for Wear OS
WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced the launch of the WhatsApp app for Wear OS that will allow users to start new conversations, reply to messages and take VoIP
Read moreUnstructured, which offers tools to prep enterprise data for LLMs, raises $25M
Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 are the building blocks for an increasing number of AI applications. But some enterprises have been reluctant to adopt them, owing to their inability to access first-party and proprietary data. It’s not an easy problem to solve, necessarily — considering that sort
Read moreHow Diversity in Product Engineering Teams Leads to Better Products
Photo by Nick Fewings on UnsplashAs engineering leaders, our ultimate goal is to deliver exceptional products that improve the lives of our users. Too often, teams fall into the trap of building products for themselves rather than articulating user needs, resulting in features that fail to gain traction.The Hidden Pitfalls of
Read moreAs Egnyte continues to grow steadily, an IPO seems like the inevitable conclusion
Egnyte has never been a startup in a hurry and has been content to take a slow, but steady growth trajectory over its 16-year history. Today it’s a $200 million company growing at around 25% a year. That’s pretty impressive for a private company at a time when many enterprise
Read moreHow Tesla almost went out of business — and then broke the auto industry
Image: Vox Media During the development of the Tesla Model S, one top engineer would tick off certain milestones in his mind whenever the tiny, almost bankrupt startup would hit certain goals. A particular number of cars built, for example. And one milestone he distinctly remembers is when the Tesla
Read moreV-statistics
A few days ago I wrote about U-statistics, statistics which can be expressed as the average of a symmetric function over all combinations of elements of a set. V-statistics can be written as an average of over all products of elements of a set. Let S be a statistical sample
Read moreIntel Capital, Khosla lead $27M investment into SiPhox Health’s at-home blood-testing tech
Six out of 10 Americans are living with a chronic disease, but access to convenient and low-cost health testing isn’t always available for patients, and bottlenecks still exist with current testing approaches. SiPhox Health wants to change that through more advanced blood testing using silicon photonic chip technology to put
Read moreBig Sky Capital debuts its $20M fund to invest in enterprise SaaS startups
Early-stage venture capital firm Big Sky Capital, operating in Miami, Kazakhstan and Singapore, today announced its Fund I with $20 million in capital commitments. Founded by Jahn Karsybaev and Adil Nurgozhin, who met while at the University of Montana — which inspired the firm’s name — after careers in corporate
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