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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 appea...

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) ap...

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 ap...

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 La...

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...

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: Cap...

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 wit...

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...

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 Devel...

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 appea...

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...

RECENT UPDATES: Podsheets is our open source set of tools for managing podcasts and podcast businesses 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 FindCollabs Hackathon has ended–winners will probably be announced by the time this episode airs; The post Products with Ryan H...

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 Hase...

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...

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 Softwar...

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 McCulloug...

Advertising fraud steals billions of dollars every year. BuzzFeed reporter Craig Silverman reports on advertising fraud and its impact on the Internet. In one investigation, Craig uncovered a mobile advertising fraud scheme in which four people stole millions of dollars (perhaps as much as $75 million or even $750 million) by serving advertisements to automated The post Ad Fraud Economics with Cra...

Podcast listeners usually find out about a new podcast in one of two ways: either a friend recommends that podcast or the Apple podcast charts rank that new podcast highly. The Apple podcast charts are created using an algorithm that is not public. Many people believe that the chart ranking of a podcast is based The post Fake Podcast Charts with Jack Rhysider appeared first on Software Engineering...

Real estate is an asset that is not straightforward to invest in. Real estate can generate excellent returns for investors, but can require much more time and expertise than stocks. Cadre is a company that allows users to invest in real estate more easily and intelligently. Cadre provides users with lots of data about potential The post Cadre: Automated Investing with Leonid Movsesyan appeared fir...

Tyler Cowen’s book Stubborn Attachments outlines a framework that individuals can use to make decisions grounded in economic philosophy. In his previous books, Tyler examined recent economic history. Stubborn Attachments gives his perspective for navigating the future. Tyler is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is also the host of Conversations with The post Engineering Philo...

Mars is a cold, inhospitable planet far from earth. It presents one of the most complex challenges faced by engineers: how can we create a new world? To create a new world, first we have to get there. We can build new rockets with improved propulsion systems. We can build ships that allow us to The post Anatomy of Next: New World with Mike Solana appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Social media has transformed our lives. It has also transformed how wars are fought. P.W. Singer’s new book “Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media” describes the far-reaching impact of social media on the tactics and strategies used by military, business, and everyday citizens. We have all read about stories such as Russian bots and Cambridge The post Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Medi...

Infrastructure software can be a great business. An infrastructure software company sells core technology to a large enterprise such as a bank or insurance company. This software has near zero marginal cost and generates a large annuity for the infrastructure software company. Once a bank has purchased your infrastructure software, the bank is likely to The post Software Chasms with Martin Casado...

Augmented reality glasses will let us walk through a world where the digital blends together with the physical. 3-D objects will be rendered and superimposed onto our field of vision, creating an environment for people to build applications we can hardly dream of today. These augmented reality glasses are probably three to five years away The post Ubiquity6: Augmented Reality Platform with Ankit K...

Originally posted on 1 May 2018. Technology is pushing us rapidly toward a future that is impossible to forecast. We try to imagine what that future might look like, and we can’t help having our predictions shaped by the media we have consumed. 1984, Terminator, Gattaca, Ex Machina, Black Mirror–all of these stories present a The post Technology Utopia with Michael Solana Holiday Repeat appe...