v4: Enterprise focused

📍 Brighton, 🇬🇧 

🥃 TL;DR

• I published my new piece of art - a blog post about working with AI, reducing project time from 60 to 25 hours

• ServiceNow acquires Data.World - surprising news given ServiceNow's low media presence despite being 20+ years old

• High demand for ServiceNow developers in the job market

• Databricks acquired Neon

• Uber is attempting to rehire after previous layoffs, but with questionable recruitment practices

• Figma Config2025 introduced new tools: Figma Buzz for quick designs and Figma Make (AI-powered design tool)

Sorry I missed last week, it’s been crazy! I’ve been also preoccupied with my post (NOT AI written, btw!). I wanted to document my workflow and findings about working with AI on a project I was doing recently.

Check it out! Hope you find it helpful! I do believe that we need to embrace AI in our DevEx, it can be very helpful 💯

So I guess this was the most important piece of news. 😄

Apart from that I found myself a lot on X.

I try not to spend too much time there and rather spend time reading something more worthy, but because this week I’ve had a lot of deadlines (yes, many! and all on the same project), I couldn’t focus on anything else.

And you know, when you push the code, and then you have to wait for the GitHub action pipeline to finish… what do you do? I found myself on X.

And I had to deploy a lot last couple of weeks, since we were doing a lot on the E2E integration side. So, yeah…

This newsletter reflects the realities of my life, and that’s why this issue is going to be a very tabloid one (sorry! 😅).

So let’s talk about what happened!

At Sainsbury’s we’re using ServiceNow for a lot of things. Create an IT ticket, report an incident and for our end users to ask questions on how to use our platform (it is a complicated one).

Before Sainsbury’s I’ve never heard of that tool.

Last week I’ve learned that ServiceNow acquires Data.World.

Funny thing is, ServiceNow was founded in 2004. They are more than 20 years old! 🤯

Imagine that! Having no media coverage, and being a significant player on the market, and still alive after 20 years! 🤯

Another “peculiar” thing is that there are a lot of demand for ServiceNow developers! Just search for a “ServiceNow Developer” role on LinkedIn!

Yes, 502 results just for London doesn’t sound much, but if you scroll down, they’ll all be ServiceNow developer specifically!

Every sentence I’m writing ends with an exclamation point. That’s how shocked I am that I was unaware of such a huge “movement” happening! 🤯

Anyway, if you’ve been let go, or are searching for a new gig, go do some ServiceNow training and certification and you’ll find a job in no time!

I’m putting ServiceNow on my resume, and I wouldn’t even be lying. I’m working with it on a daily basis! As a user tho, not developer. 🤔

Here’s a random thought, is there an entrepreneurial opportunity somewhere there? Can you create a plugin of some sort for ServiceNow for it to buy you out later? Look into this, THIS IS OUR CHANCE! 🚀

Speaking of acquisitions, Databricks has acquired Neon!

It is believed because Neon helps AI agents with real-time data management. And Databricks is bullish on AI.

They even do all these e-books, webinars, and courses on AI with Databricks

I’ve considered learning it, to add it to my tech stack, but we work with Snowflake, and it’s a lot more productive to learn something what you already work with, rather than get stuck in a never ending loop of those tutorials and courses without using any of that in practice.

Oh, and speaking of jobs (not Steve, although something we’re also missing nowadays), Uber is re-hiring decent colleagues…?

Someone got an invitation to provide feedback, share their experience on how it was working at Uber. Then after they agreed to do that, they’ve been ghosted.

Uber is trying to re-hire them, after they laid off 3,000 people back in 2020, and also last month in their “silent lay off”…??? 😦 

PS check out TeamBlind, a site I’ve found while googling for a link for Uber. Is that the new and better Glassdoor?

Another thing that caught my eye and made me regret both the fact that I was on social media and my choice of residence, was Bolt.new wild party.

All the post-conference parties that I went to were all dull and some were even cringy. 😑

I’m in the wrong country. We’re all just sad in here and always complain about stuff, especially the weather.

I think it was an after-party for Figma Config2025, where they introduced a bunch of cool stuff, by the way.

I’m not a designer, so don’t really care about design things, but I did like Figma Buzz, which is a tool to design posters, flyers, etc. This is awesome! There definitely should be a tool for doing quick jobs like these! Amazing! 🔥

Also, I’m looking forward to using Figma Make! This is basically a ChatGPT for designs, I need it badly!

When doing all of those side/pet projects I love having a good looking design, but I can’t afford it and UI templates quite often don’t fit the purpose/theme.

So I end up asking my mate to do some basic UI elements that I could reuse, because I don’t have enough cash to pay him for a proper work.

He still ends up doing proper work, so I basically under pay him. I owe him so much money now. 🫠

Check him out, he’s awesome! If you ever need a Head of Design or a mentor or something - hire him.

Anyway, I couldn’t find that Figma Make mode tho. Might be still unavailable for general public. 🤷‍♂️

🎓️ Top Learning Materials of the Week

📺️ MCP Demo Day - Cloudflare organised an online conference, dedicated to MCPs. I still haven’t watched it yet myself, but it’s in my to do list! 💯

⚒️ Tools of the Week

🌍️ Outline VPN - this tool will help you create your own VPN server easy, without the need to fuck around with CLIs and configs, etc. And no one would know about it, if you know what I mean 😉