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As our launch week at PeerDB (YC S23) comes to a conclusion, we are both proud and humbled to have launched some exciting features incl. a new product line PeerDB Streams; support for row-level transformations;  adding more connectors like Elasticsearch; and announcing public beta of PeerDB Cloud; All of this wouldn’t have been possible without support from our Customers. In that spirit, to conclude our launch week, here are some raw testimonials from our Customers in our slack channels. Context: Both the customers here are replicating data at scale from Postgres to Snowflake.

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tl:dr: Tech for Good Organisers Network May Retreat - sign up here - https://lnkd.in/eyPmE6yn i don't know if you know the Tech for Good Organisers network? if not - they're a fine and varied group of humans, who support those who help run the networks that share good practise and build connections amongst those digital folk who want to do good with tech. They really helped in developing https://lnkd.in/eMbSK65J particularly the attitude we take towards DEI - more here: https://lnkd.in/eYrbRgcY And they have the following question and offer... Are you a passionate organiser building or dreaming of building a thriving Tech for Good community in the UK? Join us for the Tech for Good Organisers Network May Retreat - a one-of-a-kind unconference designed by and for you! Date: Saturday 18 May Time: 10am - 5:30pm - and a community dinner afterwards! Location: London What is it? This unconference is your chance to connect, collaborate, and share your experiences with fellow Tech for Good community organisers and leaders from across the UK, with a focus on building Just and Regenerative Futures. What's an unconference? Unlike traditional conferences, you set the agenda! This is your opportunity to propose sessions, spark discussions, and dive deep into the topics that matter most to you and your community in relation to creating a just and regenerative future. Here are some things you might want to discuss: Leveraging tech to tackle social and environmental challenges Building inclusive and equitable Tech for Good communities Exploring the tech ethics and tech justice considerations of using tech to promote sustainability and regeneration. Measuring impact for a just and regenerative future Collaboration between communities to achieve a common goal The agenda is entirely up to you! Why attend? Connect with fellow Tech for Good community organisers and leaders who share your passion for a just and regenerative future Learn from each other's successes and challenges in building a better future Share best practices and develop new ideas for using tech for good Collaborate on future initiatives and projects that create positive change Be part of a growing movement of Tech for Good in the UK Lunch and dinner refreshments will be provided. If you are travelling from afar, we also cover travel and accommodation costs. Sign up here - https://lnkd.in/eyPmE6yn We can't wait to see you there!

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Last week we hosted Isometric's first tech meetup at our central London rooftop terrace. Myself and Konrad were joined by friends at incident.io (👋 Lisa & Alicia!) to argue that it is possible to ship products fast with very high quality. During the panel discussion, Konrad shared one stat that dominated our conversations throughout the rest of the evening: a median pull request at Isometric is reviewed within 29 minutes, and deployed to production within an hour and a half. How do we achieve this? - 🌟 Built quality in from the start, leveraging modern development practices and proven technology stack - 👩‍💻 Small but experienced team with a very high bar in hiring - 🧘 Strong confidence in our automated testing suite and the quality of our strongly-typed code - 🤏 Keeping our pull request very small (median PR is less than 50 lines!) by leveraging stacked pull requests... Stacked pull request is a practice that Konrad brought to Isometric from his time at Meta and we were able to leverage it from the very beginning by using Graphite. It allows you to keep your changes very small (which makes code reviews faster, and higher quality) without the challenging overhead of managing branches. If you don't like waiting days and poking colleagues to get your PRs reviewed, we're hiring 😉 https://lnkd.in/eJTEebTT

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Why our clients love Kyloe AI for Bullhorn ✨ With the ability to personalise your output, without having to learn how to write the perfect prompt, it's now easier than ever to get consistent, high-quality results. Want to see why people are raving about our AI solution? Discover more about Kyloe AI for Bullhorn here: https://lnkd.in/esrziydd Thanks to Brian Cunningham for your great feedback! #AIRecruitment #KyloeAI #KyloeAIForBullhorn #RecruitingTech #ClientFeedback #ThinkBullhornThinkKyloe

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TL;DR: A new event for tech startup founders and professionals in London 🚀 As you know, I've been running Tech Startups in the Pub for a few years now, together with a group of wonderful, smart, and handsome co-organisers (because flattery goes a long way!). Pedro Jurado and I are now trying something new: coming to the office and spending a day working alongside other tech startup founders and professionals. We teamed up with The Workers' League to have our first session of the T-Break Club on Friday 20th September. Here's what you need to do: 1. Join the T-Break Club community through the Epic Spaces platform. 2. Book your day pass through the platform. 3. Come and work from the co-working space from 9am. 4. Meet new people, share ideas, and have meaningful conversations during breaks. Whether you’re a founder, developer, or involved in anything tech-related, this is your chance to collaborate and network with like-minded people in a relaxed and productive setting. No pressure, just great conversations and ideas. Want to meet even more people? At 6pm, after this session is over, we're going to Tech Startups in the Pub (I'll post about it separately). The deets: 📅 When: Friday, 20th September from 9am to 5.30pm. 📍 Where: The Workers' League, 6-8 Bonhill St, London EC2A 4BX (near Liverpool Street, Moorgate, and Old Street stations). 🔗 How: Go to https://lnkd.in/ewDfyMrk , join the community, and book your day pass (it's £12, charged by The Workers' League). See you there!

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5⃣ Years of XDC Network! Celebrating 5 Years of XDC Network: A Journey of Growth, Innovation, and Stability As we celebrate 5 years of the XDC Network, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our community members, ecosystem partners, supporters, and masternode holders. Your unwavering support and dedication have been the backbone of our journey, propelling us to new heights. 2019 - 2024: A Timeline of Achievements: Over the past five years, the XDC Network has made significant strides in building a robust, innovative, and stable blockchain ecosystem. Here’s a snapshot of our progress: >Network Progress:  - 426 Nodes ensuring a decentralized and secure network.  - 1.67M+ Accounts showcasing widespread adoption.  - 75.3M+ Blocks processed, highlighting our network’s resilience.  - 16K+ Smart Contracts deployed, enabling a plethora of applications.  - 563.9M+ Transactions completed, reflecting our active user base.  - 2000+ TPS (Transactions Per Second), ensuring fast and efficient processing. >Market Metrics:  - $512.8M Market Cap indicating strong market confidence.  - $1.30B Diluted Market Cap, reflecting potential future growth.  - $13.91B Circulating Supply showing significant token distribution.  - $37.9B Total Supply, underpinning the network’s scalability. >> Why Now is the Best Time to Build on XDC As we move forward, there has never been a better time to build on the XDC Network. Here’s why: 1. Extensive Exchange Listings:   - Our token is available on numerous leading exchanges like KuCoin, Gate.io, Uphold, and Bitfinex, among others, ensuring liquidity and accessibility. 2. Wide Range of Wallet Support:   - Integration with various hardware and software wallets, including Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, and SafePal, guarantees secure and flexible storage options for your XDC tokens. 3. Comprehensive Custodian Services:   - Partnerships with renowned custodians like Copper, Bitpanda Custody, and Fireblocks provide enhanced security for institutional investors and large-scale holders. 4. Rich Ecosystem of dApps:   - From financial services like Razor, Impel, and TradeFinex to innovative platforms like Origin, ChainIDE, and XDCNFT, our ecosystem is bustling with applications that cater to diverse needs. >>>Join Us in Building the Future With our strong foundation and continuous innovation, XDC Network is primed for further growth. We invite developers, businesses, and innovators to join us in this exciting journey. Together, we can leverage the power of blockchain to create solutions that drive real-world impact. Thank you once again for your incredible support. Here’s to many more years of success and innovation with the XDC Network! XinFin Powering XDC Network XDC Foundation Tenity 🚀 #XDCNetwork #Blockchain #Innovation #5YearsOfXDC #BuildOnXDC

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"When Giants Step Back: The Startup Opportunity in Mixed Reality Gaming" This is the title of my future SXSW London panel (if it gets accepted). And, to get it accepted, can you, please, vote for it? 🙏 It might ask you to create an account, just so you know. The link to the submission is in the comments below.

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A step-by-step guide to configuring the PawaPay SDK, from installation to handling API responses, ensuring perfect integration with your payment systems.

Anyone who has interest in high quality structured data should listen to my partner Nik go through masterclass in modern, real-world entity resolution at scale - truly best in world https://lnkd.in/eQS_6ycb

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This is flipping epic and probably one of the most best uses of AI we've found for Alphero work yet. We support a load of client apps / products many with literally years of history, context and background knowledge. As you'd expect, newbies on some codebases can need time to get up to speed. We thought we'd take a crack at using an AI tool (under the steely eyes of Brendon Price our principal security consultant). We used Notebook LM and after exporting support history including documentation, design, support tickets and general commentary, requirements, app store feedback and other stuff into a new Notebook LM 'project' I can confirm #nailedit. Not only do we have an instant and actually remarkably useful knowledge base that the support crew can query on any topic related just to that project / product. It also links you back to the sources. All in a walled garden. This bit is great and we're going to do more of it. Not nearly so useful but infinitely more entertaining was generating an AI podcast off the content ... the Notebook LM artificial hosts bravely approached telling the story of 7-10 years of support tickets and documentation for one product with artificial confidence, poise and an open mind. Albeit calling out the "wall of jargon" that must be navigated to go from lines of code to an app. Personal favourite AI podcast quotes: - "What about API specs! That one sounds particularly intimidating" 😱 - "the documents give us some clues about the process" 🤔 - "those unsung heroes [developers!] deserve a round of applause." 🙌 And the best of the bunch (in relation to a specific error report): "the app is having an existential crisis or something". 😭 Anyhoo, we'll definitely be doing this again for other longer term projects. Maybe not the podcast bit. #ai #notebooklm #generativeai #digitalagency #knowledgebase

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Code Generation & Customisation are often at odds with one another, but it doesn’t have to be.... 👀 At Speakeasy we’ve taken a multi-level approach to customising SDKs without impacting the level of automation: 1️⃣ OpenAPI-based customisation: Wherever possible, we want the OpenAPI spec to be the single source of truth. That’s why we rely on standard OpenAPI fields to drive customisation and OpenAPI extensions when there isn’t a relevant field available. 2️⃣ Config-based customisation: For look & feel changes to the SDK, we have a small config file. This covers aspect of generation that can’t really be defined within an OpenAPI spec. For example, we maintain a config that allows for your SDK to have a totally flattened interface with parameters passed in-line. 3️⃣ Safe code injection with SDK hooks: This is the cornerstone of our platform’s extensibility and something that is critically important to larger enterprises which inevitably have some custom requirement. SDK Hooks allow our users to add custom code into the SDK in a way that doesn’t require any manual maintenance as new versions of the SDK are published. Our team team has done a phenomenal job of building flexibility into the platform from Day 0. If anyone wants to read more on this topic, check out the getting started guide for hooks that our founding engineer, Tristan Cartledge wrote. See the comments 👇 #openapi #codegen #apis

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For anyone going to Slush tomorrow: Interested in building your product 3x faster and with 90% less effort spent on devops? Drop by the Google Cloud booth at 4pm local time to watch André Eriksson demo the future of cloud development using Encore x Google Cloud.

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Checkbox was founded in 2002, twenty years prior to the Polychrome acquisition in 2022. This has given me newfound appreciation for the concept of technical or operational debt, and for the unique challenges it presents. Over the last year, we’ve been hard at work revamping nearly all aspects of operations. As you can imagine, the task list is daunting– but surmountable. I also think that many of us are the kind of people that– once a milestone is reached– immediately seek out what went wrong and what to do next– and there’s always plenty to do next. But as my good friends Nick Benavides, Travis Bryant, Ashraf Alhashim, Julio Bermúdez can attest, business is also a human endeavor (at least for now), so it’s important to take a moment to look at the entire picture, positives included. Particularly, in the oft thankless world of Customer Success, we’ve seen marked progress from this time last year: - L1 median response down from 808mins to 150mins (+81.4%) - L2 median response down from 1007mins to 287mins (+71.4%) - Daily support coverage up from 8 hours to 14 hours (+75%) - QBR program launch, touching 100% of customers (+∞% 😉 ) Customers today have a demonstrably better experience than they did a year ago– with the numbers to back it up. Now, Ben Williams (Customer Success Lead) is sharing his experience, the problems he sees in the industry, and how we’re different: https://lnkd.in/eGDMAktw Along the continued journey, I'll be sharing learnings, wins, losses, and everything in-between. So, if you’re curious about what operating a company with over twenty years in operation can teach us, stay tuned.

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Wow, an appstore that only charges a 12% fee? Tim Sweeney is sharing more details about Epic Games's upcoming iOS store - aiming to offer an alternative to Apple's official store. ▶ 12% fee when using Epic's payment processing (compared to Apple's 30%) ▶ 0% fee for 3rd party payment processors, like Appcharge (hey 👋 ) ▶ Store set to launch in the EU "before the end of 2024" So what do you think? Will you release a version of your game in the new Epic store or not? #mobile #mobilegames #epicgames #ios #payments

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Last week we got the whole Equals team together and in one of the days we did a hackathon. The theme: make Dashboards even better. Many months ago we shipped Dashboards and it’s been a game changer for our customers. It’s also been huge for us - we’ve seen adoption of Equals grow within accounts from more exposure. And with that adoption has come a lot of feedback and requests! We asked the team to build anything and everything they could to address that feedback and make dashboards even more exciting. Here’s a super sneak preview for what we worked on and what you might see some day (soon?) in Equals. ✨ New visualization types. Sparklines, aka baby charts 📈🦈 ✨ New and improved tables and padding within dashboards ✨ Dashboard filters ✨ Tailored CRM reporting (just like our ARR reporting offering) ✨ Present mode (aka a slide deck) and more… Stay tuned. Big things coming.

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🚀 Launching with Confidence: Key Lessons from Our Recent Platform Launch 🚀 I’m excited to share that we’ve just launched a major data and content platform for a key client. Reflecting on this journey, I’d like to highlight some of the lessons we learned that ensured a smooth and successful launch: 🤝 Team Collaboration is Key: Our team of technical and product experts works closely with clients. We have open, sometimes challenging conversations, but the goal is always achieving the best outcome. Successful launches require everyone to pull together  – it's not about whose job it is, it's about achieving the common goal. 👥 Focus on the User Experience: Prioritising the end-user was central to our approach. By incorporating user feedback during development, we ensured the platform was intuitive and met the users' needs effectively. 🔄 Stay Agile and Adaptable: Flexibility played a significant role in our success. We stayed agile, quickly adapting to changes and iterating based on testing and feedback.  Building great products starts with a clear goal, but the "how" can evolve. We understand that new ideas may arise, so we can adapt and manage them effectively. 💬 Communicate Effectively: Open and consistent communication with our client was vital. Regular updates and a transparent feedback loop kept everyone aligned and fostered trust throughout the project. 🏁 Launch Day is Just the Beginning: While launch day marks a significant milestone, it’s not the end of the journey. We’re committed to ongoing support, continuous improvement, and adapting the platform to meet evolving needs. This launch is a testament to our commitment to delivering innovative and effective solutions. By blending data and content, we’re providing our client’s customers with valuable insights and enhancing user engagement. A big thank you to everyone involved for your hard work and dedication. Here’s to many more successful product launches! #ProductLaunch #Teamwork #Innovation #Content #Data #ProductManagement #DigitalTransformation

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Shopify’s Winter Edition is here, and while it’s nicknamed "The Boring Edition". We at Panagora think it’s anything but boring. This release focuses on improving and refining features that already exist - features that might not have worked exactly as intended when they were first built. We think this is an incredibly important initiative. It’s easy to chase after new, shiny features, but focusing on making great things even better is how you build lasting value. Shopify has an incredible ecosystem of apps, allowing partners to create the latest and greatest tech while Shopify invests in polishing the system’s core for the benefit of every merchant. With over 100 improvements, it's hard to pick a few. Except for improving performance on critical parts as the checkout, a few standout improvements from this edition include: * Shopify Functions evolves, enabling merchants and developers to build even more customizations and improve and automate their workflows. * Better returns management, one of the most challenging areas for merchants is getting an overhaul. * Expanded metafields and metaobjects support and smarter Smart collections. * Combined listings improvements, a native app that had a rough start this summer but is becoming more usable. * Better editing options to make life easier for admins with Theme Blocks and interface improvements. We see this as a great example of iterating on ideas: launch, test, gather feedback, and improve. Not everything needs to be perfect from day one. What matters is the commitment to make it better over time. This approach gives Shopify the agility to explore new ideas while ensuring the foundation remains strong - allowing partners like Panagora to continue creating innovative and inspiring shopping solutions for merchants. What's your key takeaways from the Winter Edition?

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