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We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
Streaming pipelines on AWS can be expensive. Here’s how we cut AWS costs 67% without reserved instances or savings plans
Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts
The business of state civil courts has changed over the past three decades. In 1990, a typical civil court docket featured cases with two opposing sides, each with an attorney, most frequently regarding commercial matters and disputes over contracts, injuries, and other harms.
Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog
Although Wall Street would be ferociously opposed to policies that limit the unfettered flow of capital around the world, the right polices could sharply reduce the economic disruption wreaked on workers, producers, farmers, and the middle class.
The new pricing model for Travis CI
At Travis CI, we design CI/CD products to make code testing and deployment easy. We are a huge supporter of open-source teams, with many projects such as…
State of SaaS Product Onboarding
Read our State of SaaS Onboarding annual industry report to see how your product's onboarding compares to SaaS industry benchmarks & what best practices you could implement.
IBAHRI condemned UK treatment of Julian Assange in US extradition trial
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemns the reported mistreatment of Julian Assange during his United States extradition trial in February 2020, and urges the government of the United Kingdom to take action to protect him. According to his lawyers, Mr Assange was handcuffed 11…
Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars
2020 has been a heap of bad. And not small bad either. As we’ve been stuck at home, viewing the world through either real or virtual…
Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
The registry Top Level Domain Registry – Internet Computer Bureau Ltd, has notified Gandi that starting January 1, 2021 at 00:00 UTC (December 31 at 4:00 PM Pacific), the registration price for .io domain names will be increasing.
San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate
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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things
LaunchDarkly helps teams safely manage code and AI agents in production with feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and runtime control.
Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
Pornhub is removing millions of user-uploaded videos. This action comes after a New York Times column accused the website of hosting sexual videos of underage and nonconsenting women. In response to the Times’ article, Visa and Mastercard cut ties with Pornhub, making it impossible for Pornhub to...
AWS EC2 General Price Cut
It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]
Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
Since May 2019, Stripe has operated a fully remote engineering hub. Today, our remote culture is the backbone of a new working model for the whole company.
AWS Joins the Blender Development Fund
Today Blender Foundation announced that AWS has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development and innovation for Blender.
FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
This blogpost summarizes the result of a cooperation between SoloKeys and Doyensec, and was originally published on SoloKeys blog by Emanuele Cesena. You can...
We have no idea what happens next
To grasp how hard it is to predict what will happen after the world is thrown upside down – as…
The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus
A few weeks ago, we released a whole bunch of new features to Dropbox Plus, our paid plan for personal users. While we started as a storage company, we‘ve grown to be a hub to manage your digital life. About 150 people worked on this launch: engineers, product managers, designers, copywriters, and many more.
Lambda School lays off 19 employees
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Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
See how our clients and partners—from small business owners to workforce training leaders—work with JPMorganChase to drive meaningful impact and economic growth where they live and work.
Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
From August 15th, GitLab Support will no longer be manually removing MFA from free accounts.
Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development
80% of the people involved in software development spend 80% of their time developing. Why use a tool designed for planning to manage dev team activities?