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Startup CTO or Developer

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Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

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Some offer specialized skill sets like expertise in a particular programming language or framework, or specific domain knowledge. Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa.

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

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, How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup – A Field Guide ) Managing development resources ( Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development , Poor Software Developers – Pull the Plug Early , Symptoms of a Weak Development Team ), and Choosing technical frameworks ( Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for (..)

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Framework Benchmarks Round 22

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Here are some updates from our contributors @franz1981 on GitHub, @forked_franz on Twitter: Right after Round 21 I've worked on the 3 projects delivering: an improvement on HTTP parsing for Netty (affecting every Netty-based frameworks, actually, including Vertx and Quarkus), to make it more branch-pred friendly: [link] found (and fixed) a 20 years (..)

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Framework Benchmarks Round 20

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sagenschneider reports that OfficeFloor's new use of asynchronous programming in its inversion of coupling control has enabled using reactive libraries such as R2DBC. @sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

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When we interview potential developers, we’re always amazed at how many can’t answer basic programming questions. It makes us wonder, how did these folks graduate from their CS program or their bootcamp? Unfortunately, there are a lot of C players out there. And how did they build their impressive resume? Maybe with ChatGPT!)

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Efficient multiple-stream concatenation in Java

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Calling findAny on the concatenated stream may cause the program to enter an infinite loop, whereas the other solutions would terminate almost immediately. As we increase the element count past 32, flatMap performs comparatively worse and worse as the element count rises. For example, it interacts poorly with infinite streams.

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