Review: Great Developers are Raised

"By building mentoring capacity at work, you can hire newcomers, broken toys, impostors and turn them into the loyal, high-quality workforce." - Eduards Sizovs

I wish this was only a tech workforce issue, but it's an issue for every industry unfortunately. And, it goes back to how the education and workforce was built long before the computer revolution.

Anyhow, this Latvian author does an excellent job on summarizing so many thoughts of developers in the tech industry worldwide especially those who reject the tech culture of living at work and programming their life away.

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https://sizovs.net/2019/04/10/the-best-developers-are-raised-not-hired/

Review: Mickey D's purchase of DynamicYield

"An important part is to figure how to leverage the “personalization” part of a personalization engine." - Fatema Patrawala of PacktHub

As a fast food customer, I have noticed the struggles of the fast food restaurants to keep up with the increasing pace of customer demands meanwhile managing with less workers (due to many reasons especially around the minimum wage given and the labor demand of serving food to "hangry" people). With mobile apps like UberEats (where people can order food from a list of restaurants), InstaCart (where people can order groceries), and LevelUp (where people can order food for quick pickup), the way people order food and groceries is changing significantly. The food industry that reacts to this demand where people want to leverage technology for faster service and personalization will continue to stay in business. Those that don't keep up with the demand, well, they will eventually shutdown or hopefully become acquired.

 This article highlights some great points about the change coming to the fast food industry and McDonald's most recent acquisition to adapt to customer demands.

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https://hub.packtpub.com/why-did-mcdonalds-acqui-hire-300-million-machine-learning-startup-dynamic-yield/

We’re excited to announce that we have entered into an agreement to acquire @DynamicYield, a leader in personalization and decision logic technology, to make experiences in our restaurants even more personal: https://t.co/mmVzyMqC3D pic.twitter.com/v4F4luL1TW

— McDonald's Corporation (@McDonaldsCorp) March 25, 2019

The sooner these fast food chains leverage technology into their businesses to personalize food services to the demands of society, the better. As for the employees - well, it's sort of like what happened to factory workers. Not to sound insensitive, they will need to learn how to make the technology, learn to manage the technology, or think about another occupation.

Enjoy your Happy Meal!