[Startup Digest Developer - Issue #3] OpenAI Codex, Super Tech Summer Olympics, Cloud 100

Hello Everybody! Covid-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics has come to an end last week while making this Ol

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Hello Everybody! Covid-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics has come to an end last week while making this Olympics one of the most high-tech sporting events to date — from Intel's 3D athlete tracking technology to Nike's Vaporfly 4% running shoes that reduces the energetic cost of running by four per cent compared to other marathon shoes; also machine learning algorithms to letting coaches look at the analytics to help drive decision-making related training sessions for an athlete.

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Headlines This Week —

Creating a Space Game with OpenAI Codex

The Biggest News of the Week has to be OpenAI Codex, an AI system that translates natural language to code that has been released through its API from private beta. It has much of the natural language understanding of GPT-3, but it produces working code—meaning you can issue commands in English to any piece of software with an API. Codex powers GitHub Copilot, which we built and launched in partnership with GitHub a month ago. [Join the waitlist here] [Read more]. China Tech Crackdown — Leaders of top tech companies (including ByteDance, Didi and Tencent) were summoned before regulators reviewing the companies on national security grounds, and are now levying various penalties against them | Read Salesforce Ventures has partnered with Forbes and Bessemer Venture Partners to present Forbes Cloud 100, while enterprise companies like Stripe, Databricks, HashiCorp take top spots. 21 developers transforming Silicon Valley: these are the people shaking up the tech industry and redefining what it means to be a programmer | Read The quantum computing market is projected to reach $64.98 billion by 2030, and how it could transform the future? | Read

Editor's Pick —

Dwarf Fortress / Stream

From annual developer programs Indie Games Accelerator and the Indie Games Festival, Google has listed some of the best indie game developers. 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Tarn Adams managed to build Dwarf Fortress. Steven Sinofsky is writing his Microsoft story, now shares the origins of Office 97. LakeFS shares few metrics useful for measuring our own performance How To Measure Data Engineering Teams. ML expert Satish Chandra Gupta shares Actionable Insights from 4 Types of Data Analytics. Dropbox measures the success of its engineers largely on business impact. So, here's Dropbox's Engineering Career Framework. Zac Charles, Principal Engineer at Just Eat discusses in two-part series on how to Trigger a Lambda Function Every 5–10 Seconds - Part 1 | Part 2 Neil on Software explains on How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects. A Practical Guide to Growing Your Open Source Project: Part 1 – Contributors | Part -2 Community by Matt Rickard. The Three Stages of Engineering Teams explained by Luca Rossi how a simple framework for structuring growing teams, inspired by Instagram. As a programmer, your job is to make technical decisions. Mark Seemann wants you to make some more. Codemanship discusses Measuring Inner-Loop Agility, the feedback loops of software development. [Podcast] Riding the Architect Elevator to the Cloud - Gregor Hohpe. [Podcast] Building an API-Powered Platform from HackerNoon. [Podcast] Making developer effectiveness a reality from ThoughtWorks, in this pod Tim Cochran with Keyur Govande and Pia Nilsson discusses how companies can make their developers more productive. [Interview] Mikhail Chernykh Technical Lead at Indeed, speaks to StaffEng. [Paper] Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code - potential broader impacts of deploying powerful code generation technologies, covering safety, security, and economics. [Growth Stories] How Atlassian built a $50B+ acquisition-led growth engine by Toplyne.

For Beginners—

First Steps to Learning to Code - Learn more from SuperHi The Linux Command Handbook - Learn more from freecodecamp [Watch] How to Make Your First Open Source Contribution by Ceora Ford Ethereum Dev Speed Run - a quick start for developers. This Cheat Sheet has 80% of the core features of Python 3. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide. [Interview Prep] Big Data Engineering Interview Questions and Answers.

Events around the world —

[Call for Papers] ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) Special Issue on Languages, Compilers, Tools, and Theory of Embedded Systems. The deadline is Oct. 15, 2021. For instructions: https://bit.ly/3xoiaiw [Hackathon] Automation Anywhere Bot Games - is the RPA developer bot-building contest that helps organizations go be great by building AI-powered, intelligent automation. Deadline: Aug 31, 2021, register here. [Cohort] New engineering programs like Scaling Product Delivery, Technical Strategy are being included into REFORGE Fall 2021, apply now. [Virtual Event] eBPF Summit, targeted at DevOps, SecOps, platform architects, and developers. Event date: 18th August & 19th August 2021, register here.

Random —

Seeing Theory Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 The Massive Army of Volunteers That Built AOL in the 90s

Thank you, and I'll see you next week! :)

Techstars Startup Digest Developer is curated by: Swathi Dharshna - Developer Partnership & Community swathi.dharshna@startupdigestmail.com

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Startup Digest Developer - Issue #2

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Hello everybody! Hiring the best engineer is tricky and many companies struggle to find one even by rejecting most candidates. Will Larson explains how to get to say YES by self-assessing a company's hiring methods. Also, Farhan Thawar - VP of Engineering at Shopify discusses on how to hire a VP of engineering by assessing candidate skills. More tips on hiring engineers from Lynne Tye, founder of KeyValues, listen to her conversation here. Best, Swathi Dharshna

Editor Picks —

Pinterest Software Engineers explains how their technology AAL audiences help advertisers reach potential new users via audience expansion. [Interview] As a young engineer passionate about infrastructure tooling Mitchell Hashimoto founded HashiCorp, as he started from nothing now to nearly 1,500 employees with a valuation of over $5 billion, now a decade later takes on a new role. How to incorporate a GitOps approach into enterprise architecture - an illustrated guide from Bob Reselman. UserLeap wonders how Wealthfront's robust product development process works well for them and how we can apply their 5-step approach to our product strategy. How Soroco manages to build large scale systems and products with Python. For developers concerned with memory allocation by their application, Prof Daniel Lemire explains how to measure memory usage: virtual versus real memory. What is analytics engineering, and how is it at the crossroad between engineering and analytics? As a principal engineer, you can effectively be operating as a team of one – and that makes it a little trickier to manage your time — Sabrina Leandro on how to set and prioritize goals as a principal engineer? Dan North talks about the purpose of testing. Gergely Orosz explains, what are the key traits of product-minded engineers?

Headline This Week —

Jamin Ball @jaminball Cloud Giants Update: AWS (Amazon): $59B run rate, growing 37% YoY (accelerating growth) Azure (Microsoft): ~$35B run rate, growing 45% YoY (steady growth) Google Cloud (includes GSuite): $19B run rate, growing 54% YoY (slightly accelerating growth) 7:02 PM - 30 Jul 2021

The highlight of the week was the earnings report from $GOOG, $MSFT and $AMZN, so we got a glimpse into their cloud business. Google Cloud's CEO Thomas Kurian spoke about his plans for making the Cloud business unit turn a profit and rise above it's now third place. [Read] Apple's ML researchers have developed a no-code AI platform called 'Trinity' For Complex Spatial Datasets [Read] [New Funds] With one million users using the platform, no-code startup Bubble received $100mn fresh round of funding, led by Insight Partners. [Read] [New Funds] Tenderly's customers are aiming to tap into the exciting world of blockchain-based computing with a focus on decentralized finance, received $15.3 million fresh funds led by Accel. [Read] [New Funds] Hightouch turns any SQL query into live data sync over SaaS tools, making the data actionable, received $12.1 million funding. [Read]

If you're a beginner, we got you —

Learn more about Machine Learning. /freeCodeCamp - free resources of full-stack web development and machine learning curriculum and thousands of interactive coding challenges to help you expand your skills. CryptoDevHub - A community and resource platform for Blockchain- and Crypto developers learn, meet and grow. Learn how to make your first open-source contributions [Read]. Codecademy explains what Swift is used for? [Read]

Events around the world —

Codegeist 2021, a hackathon to build cloud apps using Atlassian's Forge platform. Deadline: Sep 13, 2021- Register here. DocuSign Good Code Hackathon, for the greater good. - Deadline on Aug 13, 2021 - Register here. Azure Sentinel Hackathon 2021 - Deadline on Oct 4, 2021 - Register here. Zeta Hacks from HackerEarth - Deadline on Aug 27, 2021 - Register here. API platform Postman announces a hackathon for Students, to bring API data to life with their "Visualizer" - Register here.

Random —

Hacky Experiments Hidden Bias — PAIR w/Google. Mental health awareness is trending in the news for all the right reasons. If you're looking forward to speaking with your team or boss regarding your wellness, HRB's Kelly Greenwood shares how to talk to your employer. Thank you, and I'll see you next week! :)

Techstars Startup Digest Developer is curated by: Swathi Dharshna - Developer Partnership & Community swathi.dharshna@startupdigestmail.com

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