Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith — and Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

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Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith infoq.com \| points: 495 \| comments: 279

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Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more cnbc.com \| points: 488 \| comments: 386

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Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees theinformation.com \| points: 439 \| comments: 414

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With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube waxy.org \| points: 434 \| comments: 197

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U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession bloomberg.com \| points: 415 \| comments: 754

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68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice kk.org \| points: 395 \| comments: 237

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De-Googling: My Progress geekgonecrazy.com \| points: 284 \| comments: 311

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Inside of a Tractor Cab [video] youtube.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 137

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Anger Management genevievefiles.blogspot.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 65

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Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts github.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 75

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We Need DevOps for ML Data tecton.ai \| points: 203 \| comments: 86

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Dataset of VCs investing in seed and Series A+ rounds unicorn-nest.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 42

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Some school districts plan to end the year early, call remote learning too tough wsj.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 252

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Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft cnbc.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 235

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Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design insomnia.rest \| points: 195 \| comments: 67

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The ACLU wants to know why Facebook beat a 2018 wiretap case bloomberg.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 54

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Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff techcrunch.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 48

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I could do that in a weekend (2016) danluu.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 109

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Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone blog.google \| points: 161 \| comments: 102

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Airport Stuffed with Airliners thedrive.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 87

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