The Pragmatic Engineer: A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem  —  Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Iscoe / New Yorker: A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price  —  How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Matsuda / Sifted: Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton  —  The funding round is the latest sign that fintech investors are continuing to focus on the B2B segment Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mary Jo Foley / Directions on Microsoft: Microsoft must take security seriously again by being transparent about breaches and no longer charging its subscribers extra for must-have security features  —  Microsoft charges extra for many core security and compliance features.  What can customers do to try to minimize risk and save money? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Matsuda / Sifted: Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton  —  The funding round is the latest sign that fintech investors are continuing to focus on the B2B segment Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China approves US listing of self-driving startup Pony.ai, which plans to sell up to 98M shares and list on Nasdaq or NYSE, signaling an ease on the crackdown  —  – Pony.ai plans to sell some 98 million shares on Nasdaq or NYSE  — Chinese tech IPOs in the US dwindled after crackdown in 2021 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At: Emails released as part of US v. Google show how Google’s finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money  —  This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.  —  The story begins on February 5th 2019 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: Mobvoi, a Google-backed Chinese smartwatch and AI company, fell as much as 22% in the first day of trading, after raising $41M in its Hong Kong IPO  —  – Mobvoi drops as much as 22% in first day of trading after IPO  — It’s the city’s third stock this week to drop in opening day Lees verder op Tech Meme