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Retailer expands use of devices to monitor 90mn pallet deliveries a year from warehouses to its 4,600 US outlets

In this article, we show in practice how a complete finance app was built—from the home screen to invoice importing and detailed bill management—using Microsoft Copilot as the central development interface, connected to multiple generative AI models. You'll see the exact prompt used for each screen, understand the reasons for choosing each model (Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and ChatGPT), as well as the real challenges faced and how each issue was solved.

Migrating Serverless Solutions from Cloud to On Premise — Pitfalls and Lessons Learned

There was no lack of funding for Henrique’s posh wedding ceremony in a paradise island in Brazil back in October though. https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/fabia-oliveira/video-veja...

I run a IT services based in Brazil. Deep pool of real talent and commitment to quality in work (very different from what we hear from customers who hire developers from other countries). The country is not cheap though. High taxation makes everything very expensive, from cars (a piece of junk costs $15,000 and up) to MacBooks (US$3,000+). Things like cheese and wine are more expensive than in Europe (and I am talking about locally produced ones).

Which kind of problems exactly have you had with Balena OS?

In our case we were building a solution from scratch. It is very hard to justify upfront costs like that, involving open-source and early in the project. IoT solution costs should move up according to scale. That's why AWS, Azure, and others have grown their IoT offerings. Nobody starts paying $20k upfront to use AWS IoT.

They have no clue what the market wants. Nobody is going to shell out $15k-20k to build a solution. We lost about 4 months betting on it and eventually moved away. We are glad we did.

This blog also mentions why Ubuntu Core is a bad choice. https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-an...

I highly discourage anyone to use Ubuntu Core as part of their solution. It is a secure environment, yes, but it is a nightmare to configure (snaps) and for everything, expect for the most basic stuff, you will need what is called a "brand store", which costs about $20k/year, regardless if you have 1 or 100 devices. (We could not even make one snap talk to another snap, checking another snap status etc). We had commercial discussions w/ Canonical and we basically moved away.

There is no venture capital here. The biggest funds (Redpoint, etc) here are in fact "growth" funds, i.e. once you get a revenue about BRL 1,000,000 per quarter, you will be considered otherwise good luck. Try to build a technology company here and get the funds and then let me know.

Incubators are in fact cheap outsourced innovation departments of large companies. Once you get there (which is not difficult), they will steer your solution to fit the large corporation behind. Largest companies pay lip service saying they support "innovation" by providing start-up competitions. In fact, they buy almost none from start-ups. They are in fact searching for cheap or free technology ideas and services. Absolutely no significant success has come from corporate incubators in Brazil. You are there as a small piece on the board.

My advice to start-ups in Brazil? Build as much as you can by bootstrapping and try to sell as early as possible and avoid any "free" pilots by corporations trying to use your solution. Charge and charge upfront. I sadly see too many start-ups providing free services to large companies in exchange of vague promises. You are just a piece used by employees in these large companies to promote innovation and cheap solutions.

if large comporations want to support startups they should sign a CONTRACT and BUY from you. That's it! Anything else is just exploitation of technical talent and naiveté from your start-up founds.