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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Agile practitioners often refer to the four quadrants that make up the culture of autonomy and alignment. Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

“Because traditional outsourcing firms tend to attract non-tech clients and their culture revolves around billable hours, our team members were also unsatisfied with the outsourcing company that they worked for,” Samira told TechCrunch via email.

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How to Save Time and Money by Testing Spark Locally

Xebia

Have a look at Holden Karau’s Spark Autotuning presentation from Strata New York 2018. Here you can check out her Validating Big Data Jobs talk from Big Data Spain 2018, and the slides from SparkAISummit SF 2019. Job Validation Even when the Spark job seems to work just fine, it might cause some real problems in production.

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. HackerEarth Djangothon is stepping to a culture of open innovation. Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ?

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

OverOps (@overopshq) July 11, 2018. The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” link] pic.twitter.com/616uW4OQJu. Development, Operations and Reliability.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

Because of this, it’s especially rewarding for Honeycomb to be recognized recently for the work we do within our metaphorical walls, with Comparably naming us in over ten different categories , including “Best Company Outlook,” “Best Company for Diversity,” “Best Leadership Teams,” and “Best Company Culture.”

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, I met with everyone in our engineering organization because I wanted to get to know the people we were working with. During one of those conversations, one of our engineers said to me, “I need to meet my team in person every once in a while to remind myself that they’re actual people.”

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