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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

And then came to the Bay Area around 2010, and really just did JavaScript and front end development this whole time. I joined a PHP shop, which didn’t have these fancy tools for generating JavaScript from the service side. A company called Fresh Books. Worked there. And then more recently joined Centuries, or went to a management role.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

In chapter 3 (Agility and Leanness) he introduces DevOps, a set of technical practices based on cross-functional teams and heavy automation that effectively does away with the tradeoff between speed and control – you can have both. At the time (2010), Amazon was deploying changes to production an average of every 11 seconds.