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How Data Analytics Influences (and Can Better Influence) Your Business

YoungUpstarts

No matter how many times companies and governments get in trouble for using people’s data to their advantage, (Can anyone say Facebook and Russia?), it’s still an important tool in societal development and user retention. Software engineers alone cannot simply design new apps and programs willy-nilly. Think about it.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. developed the Ojibway People and Language App.

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Another Day, Another Patent Troll

Feld Thoughts

.” While the specific claims may not be obvious to the patent troll, especially those who are lawyers who own patents they’ve picked up from other people (bankrupt companies, individuals who applied for and got a patent, patent factories), they are often extremely obvious to any software developer.

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses.

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Is #NewYork the Next Startup Land of Oz?

Scalable Startup

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. These people abound in New York.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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A Brief Intro to Domain Driven Design

Austin Startup

At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools. We are focusing on four primary principals from DDD: an emphasis on business value, cross-functional collaboration and a focus on the big picture, all while employing software best practices. This is fine and in fact, encouraged.

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