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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer?

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Java / JVM.

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Building Workflows should be easy - and they will be.with Zenaton!

Cracking the Code

There are software applications, or workflow engines, that have been created to manage business processes. Because many existing workflow engines are hard to use, and it's easier for a developer to hack something together themselves. None of that counts for anything of course if the backend workflow engine isn't up to scratch.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

I'm thinking of how to give them a portfolio of skills, rather than just be happy they are an engineer or a teacher or a plumber.). Even at his young age he programs in Java, he has learned Perl, JavaScript, and other web technologies. Engineering, economics, and neuroscience are also helpful. Discipline. (Be

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!).

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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

Within a year, I had a large format camera of my own, a growing portfolio, and a long list of tricks he taught me from his years in the art show business. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Wave’s revenues plummeted. I was hooked.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Java/Azure appliances will come in. Formerly MS IT department. Does R&D/biz dev services for company.