Making event-driven development predictable with Discover
SPONSORED BY DISCOVER FINANCIAL On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Paul Manning and Emanuele Pugliese of Discover Financial about the tech that goes into payments and the way they approach developer experience and architecture. They talk about domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, Kafka Streams, and
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X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. The platform appears
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A year after Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (CSSE) purchased Redbox for $375 million, the company continues to be hit by losses and looks to reduce costs across all aspects of its business. CSSE reported its second-quarter 2023 earnings this week, which showed a net loss of $43.7 million
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In the first quarter of 2023, we reported that Jumia recorded its lowest losses in four years. Its adjusted EBITDA and operating losses dropped to $27 million and $30.9 million, respectively. Those numbers represented a 55% and 57% decrease year-over-year, on track to meet the company’s end-of-year target of $100
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Read moreConfigu raises a $3M pre-seed round for its configuration-as-code platform
Nobody loves managing configuration files for their applications and as systems get ever more complex and distributed, errors — and the potential security issues that come with that — can easily multiply. Infrastructure-as-code has gone mainstream over the course of the last few years and now, Tel Aviv-based open-source startup
Read moreOpenAI proposes a new way to use GPT-4 for content moderation
OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. Detailed in a post published to the official OpenAI blog, the technique relies on prompting GPT-4 with a policy that guides the model in making
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