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The US Army Cyber School is a training program which trains cyber soldiers and leaders to be adept in cyber military strategy and tactics. In order to teach these skills, the cyber school uses a system they call “courseware as code”, a workflow that allows updates to the curriculum in a reversion-friendly fashion similar to The post Gitlab Courseware as Code with Ben Allison appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Acquisitions are part of the technology industry. A successful corporation will often have an “exit”, either going public or becoming acquired. And with each of these corporations, there is a set of stories that narrate the company from beginning to end.  Acquired is a podcast that tells the stories of companies such as YouTube, Instagram, The post Acquired Podcasting with David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Software companies can be funded in a variety of ways: venture capital, self-funding, and debt, among others. In order to receive financing, a company is evaluated on its ability to generate future cash flows. After all, a valuation is a number that summarizes the present value of future cash flows. Determining that valuation number is The post Capital Allocation with Blair Silverberg and Chris Olivares appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Originally published December 20, 2019. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. freeCodeCamp was started five years ago with the goal of providing free coding education to anyone on the Internet. freeCodeCamp has become the best place to begin learning how to write software. There are many other The post freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson (Summer Break Repeat) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

For the last five months, we have been working on a new version of Software Daily, the platform we built to host and present our content.  We are creating a platform that integrates the podcast with a set of other features that make it easier to learn from the audio interviews.  Software Daily includes the The post Software Daily appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

We are all living in social isolation due to the quarantine from COVID-19. Isolation is changing our habits and our moods, ravaging the economy, and changing how we work. One positive change is that more people have been reconnecting with their friends and family over frequent calls and video chats. Isolation is not a normal The post Isolation with Courtland Allen and Anurag Goel appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Serverless tools have come a long way since the release of AWS Lambda in 2014. Serverless apps were originally architected around Lambda, with the functions-as-a-service being used to glue together larger pieces of functionality and API services. Today, many of the common AWS services such as API Gateway and DynamoDB have functionality built in to The post Serverless Development with Jeremy Daly appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Facebook Messenger is a chat application that millions of people use every day to talk to each other. Over time, Messenger has grown to include group chats, video chats, animations, facial filters, stories, and many more features. Messenger is a tool for utility as well as for entertainment. Messenger is used both on mobile and The post Facebook Messenger Engineering with Mohsen Agsen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Modern web development involves a complicated toolchain for managing dependencies. One part of this toolchain is the bundler, a tool that puts all your code and dependencies together into static asset files. The most popular bundler is webpack, which was originally released in 2012, before browsers widely supported ES Modules. Today, every major browser supports The post Pika Dependency Management with Fred Schott appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Food delivery apps have changed how the restaurant world operates. After seven years of mobile food delivery, the volume of food ordered through these apps has become so large that entire restaurants can be sustained solely through the order flow that comes in from the apps. This raises the question as to why you even The post Cloud Kitchen Platform with Ashley Colpaart appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Remote engineering work makes some elements of software development harder, and some elements easier. With Slack and email, communication becomes more clear cut. Project management tools lay out the responsibilities and deliverables of each person. GitHub centralizes and defines the roles of developers. On the other hand, remote work subtracts the role of nuanced conversation. The post Remote Team Management with Ryan Chartrand appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Over the last fifteen years, there has been a massive increase in the number of new software tools. This is true at the infrastructure layer: there are more databases, more cloud providers, and more open-source projects. And it’s also true at a higher level: there are more APIs, project management systems, and productivity tools. ClickUp The post ClickUp Engineering with Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Infrastructure-as-code allows developers to use programming languages to define the architecture of their software deployments, including servers, load balancers, and databases.  There have been several generations of infrastructure-as-code tools. Systems such as Chef, Puppet, Salt, and Ansible provided a domain-specific imperative scripting language that became popular along with the early growth of Amazon Web Services. The post Pulumi: Infrastructure as Code with Joe Duffy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Software investing requires a deep understanding of the market, and an ability to predict what changes might occur in the near future. At the level of core infrastructure, software investing is particularly difficult. Databases, virtualization, and large scale data processing tools are all complicated, highly competitive areas. As the software world has matured, it has The post Infrastructure Investing with Vivek Saraswat appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cloud computing caused a fundamental economic shift in how software is built. Before the cloud, businesses needed to buy physical servers in order to operate. There was an up-front cost that often amounted to tens of thousands of dollars required to pay for these servers.  Cloud computing changed the up-front capital expense to an ongoing The post Cloud Investing with Danel Dayan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Low code tools can be used to build an increasing number of applications. Knowledge workers within a large corporation can use low code tools to augment their usage of spreadsheets. Entrepreneurs can use low code tools to start businesses even without knowing how to code. Modern low code tools have benefited from steady improvements in The post Makerpad: Low Code Tools with Ben Tossell appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Every company has a large number of routine data workflows. These data workflows involve spreadsheets, CSV files, and tedious manual work to be done by a knowledge worker.  For example, data might need to be taken from Salesforce, filtered for new customers, and piped into Mailchimp. Or perhaps you need to sort all your customers The post Parabola: No-Code Data Workflows with Alex Yaseen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

A gig economy application generates lots of notifications.  There is SMS, mobile phone updates, emails, and native application updates. If you order a ride from Uber, you might receive a text message and a push notification at the same time. If an app overloads the user with notifications, the user might end up annoyed and The post Courier with Troy Goode appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Animations can be used to create games, app tutorials, and user interface components. Animations can be seen in messaging apps, where animated reactions can convey rich feelings over a text interface. Loading screens can become less boring through animation, and voice assistant products can feel more alive through animation. But we still don’t see much The post Rive: Animation Tooling with Guido and Luigi Rosso appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Robotics has changed modern agriculture. Autonomous systems are powering the tractors, cotton pickers, and corn cutters that yield plants at industrial scale. John Deere is a company that has been making farm equipment for 183 years. Over that period, the planting and harvesting process has become increasingly mechanized, and John Deere has been at the The post John Deere: Farm Software with Ryan Bergman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.