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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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How To Fix Obamacare

Feld Thoughts

Many years ago I read Fredrick Brooks iconic book on software engineering – The Mythical Man-Month. One of his key messages is that adding additional software engineers to an already late project will just delay things more. We know a lot more about building complex software than we did in 1980.

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6 Lifehacks That Will Help You Save On Mobile App Development

YoungUpstarts

There isn’t a single software project where price doesn’t matter. Alexander Grigoryan, the senior director for software engineering, application platform and online grocery for Walmart Global eCommerce, tells that his team looked at various options for building its cross-platform apps. Conclusion.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Product leaders often believe it’s cheaper to buy software than build it. You don’t need a large development team or outside capital to build your own software from scratch. Gartner forecasts enterprise software spending will total almost $572 billion worldwide by 2022. The problem your new software or technology will solve.

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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. Software development is all about managing complexity and the bigger and more mature the codebase gets, the more complex it gets. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on?

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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

from software to AI, VR, cannabis, health, food, music, blockchain, gaming, and more. He also built a number of key open source libraries used by many large Internet companies around the world (see ). Horizon Blockchain Games is currently based in Toronto, Canada. Tell us about it. Toronto has an exciting startup ecosystem?—?from

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” No Problem! You name it.”