Aug 13, 2021

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

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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.

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! :)

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swathi.dharshna@startupdigestmail.com

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