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In the developed world, it is easy to take for granted that we grew up with computers. Technology is so pervasive in the United States that we have debates about how early in child development a human should be given a smartphone. Across much of Africa, there is a shortage of access to computers. Children The post TechLitAfrica: Computer Literacy in Africa with Tyler Cinnamon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

From Africa to India to Asia to South America–computer science and programming are rising in popularity in every emerging market. Each of these markets has regional needs for technology. Just like every culture develops its own food and television, every culture needs different types of applications to run their lives. In Vietnam, the day-to-day life The post Emerging Markets: Vietnam with Charles Lee appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Facebook moves fast because of vision, collaboration, and trust. The fast pace of development is enabled by constantly improving infrastructure and a sense of unity throughout the company.  In Facebook’s early days, there was an emphasis on rapidly deploying new code to drive constant improvement and experimentation.  Product quality was maintained by engineers closely checking The post Facebook Engineering Culture with Raylene Yung appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Software engineers have a wide variety of media to choose from, including podcasts, blogs, YouTube videos, conferences. The amount of software engineering media that is available is growing and accelerating. Eight years ago, there were not as many options for information about software. Charles Max Wood founded Devchat.tv to create a network of podcasts and The post Software Media with Charles Max Wood appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Creating a software company has never been easier. Software engineers are increasingly seeing entrepreneurship as a viable career path. But the path to being an independent software developer is not always clear.  Most engineers spend some of their career working at a software company. Even an engineer who intends to build a company someday can The post Software Free Radicals with Lior Kanfi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Today’s episode is a keynote I gave at Full Stack Tech Radar Day in Tel Aviv. The talk is called “You Are Not a Commodity”. This talk is also available as a YouTube video. The slides can be accessed here. The world of commodity engineering is coming to an end. Developers are becoming more productive, The post You Are Not A Commodity (Keynote at Tikal Full Stack Tech Radar Day) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Programmers are in high demand, and software engineering is a career path that is fun, creative, and lucrative. There are many people who want to transition into a career in software and are looking for the right path toward writing code. The traditional college computer science curriculum teaches some software engineering skills, but the time The post Lambda School Education with Andrew Madsen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Software engineering is an art and a science. To manage engineers is to manage artists and scientists. Software companies build practical tools like payment systems, messaging products, and search engines. Software tools are the underpinnings of our modern lives. You might expect this core infrastructure which modern humans rely on to have been constructed with The post Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The software market changes every year. As individuals and enterprises become more willing to buy software, there are new markets for entrepreneurs to sell software to. Good software has high margins and high retention, so even a niche software business can prove profitable. As software spreads across the world, developing countries are showing a willingness The post Software Businesses with Hiten Shah appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cloud computing, open source, and mobile computing are trends that affect every organization. When a large organization adapts to these trends, it is commonly referred to as a “digital transformation”. Digital transformation causes many companies to reframe their business as a software company. A candy manufacturer now must think of itself as a software company The post Digital Transformation: Capital One with Hillary McTigue appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Facebook’s strategy is shaped by long term goals, short term requirements, and the available resources of the company. Long term goals are necessary for thinking through big decisions such as acquisitions, hardware product investments, and open source software ecosystems. To implement long term goals, Facebook needs to communicate the vision of the company and foster The post Facebook Strategy with Mike Vernal appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Facebook engineering is designed to self-assemble. When an engineer joins Facebook, the engineer goes through boot camp, where they are exposed to multiple projects to find a good fit in terms of technical skills and personal preferences. Since there are so many different initiatives within the company at any given moment, a new hire can The post Facebook Management with Jocelyn Goldfein appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

When Facebook was scaling in its early years, the company developed engineering practices that were unlike any other organization before it. Early Facebook engineering developed unusual practices because the problem set was unusual. Facebook was a highly detailed, highly interactive, multi-user web application. Facebook was pushing the limits of PHP and JavaScript in a time The post Facebook Developers with Nick Schrock appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Facebook engineering is commonly described by two words: move fast. Building products quickly has been a differentiating characteristic of the company since its inception. From the longtime engineers to the summer interns, Facebook instills a sense of immediacy and opportunity in all of its employees. The goal of Facebook is to make the world more The post Facebook Engineering with Pete Hunt appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Growing a software business requires an understanding of engineering, sales, and marketing. As we learn software engineering, we also pick up some knowledge about how a business should operate. We know that there are customers, and that our product needs to be scalable to serve more customers. We know that some features are more important The post Software Growth with Greg Kogan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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RECENT UPDATES: FindCollabs $5000 Hackathon Ends Saturday April 15th, 2019 New version of Software Daily, our app and ad-free subscription service Software Daily is looking for help with Android engineering, QA, machine learning, and more Haseeb Qureshi is an entrepreneur and investor. As a teenager, Haseeb played poker professionally through the online poker bubble. His The post Bubbles with Haseeb Qureshi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Upcoming events: A Conversation with Haseeb Qureshi at Cloudflare on April 3, 2019 FindCollabs Hackathon at App Academy on April 6, 2019 Chris Yeh is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. He co-wrote Blitzscaling with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.   Blitzscaling is a strategy for growing a company that has found product market fit. Blitzscaling prioritizes speed The post Blitzscaling with Chris Yeh appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Advertising fraud occurs when a brand pays for an advertisement online and that advertisement is shown to an automated bot account that has been created to view ads. Advertising fraud is rampant on the Internet. It’s not possible to know how much money is lost to ad fraud, but the costs are in the billions The post Ad Fraud Engineering with Praneet Sharma and Shailin Dhar appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The Internet has transformed humanity. The Internet is the result of a long series of innovations from military, academia, business, and the open source community. In his book, How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough tells the story of the last 25 years of Internet development through the lens of companies The post Internet History (and Future) with Brian McCullough appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.