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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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Shuffl helps create new social interactions on Slack to spark joy between coworkers

GeekWire

Lee, who is the CEO, is based in San Francisco while Watts, the CTO, is in Seattle, where the 2-person company is headquartered. In addition to Amazon, Watt previously held engineering roles at Expedia, as well as Simply Measured, a social analytics firm that was acquired by Chicago-based social media management platform Sprout Social.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s CIOs play more of a general manager role, Meyercord adds, with IT leaders focused not just on crafting great IT architecture and strategy, but also on hiring, building, and nurturing teams, understanding the finances of the department, and putting out fires on an ongoing basis. “That has served me incredibly well.” Paul, Minn.,

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Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party

The Verge

At ETHDenver, developers want a utopian future I knew I was in the right place when l saw a flier taped to a streetlamp advertising the “world’s first NFT bong.”. ETHDenver is a mix between developer conference and all-out party. ETHDenver is a mix between developer conference and all-out party. It is, first of all, free.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. With Amazon DynamoDB, developers scaling cloud-based applications can start small with just the capacity they need and then increase the request capacity of a given table as their app grows in popularity. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??