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A Detailed Guide on Conducting Effective System Design Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The role of a system design engineer includes creating the architecture for different components of a given system, and defining how they interact with each other for a common goal. scalability, performance, fault tolerance). Provide a detailed scope of the system design exercise to help candidates focus.

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Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

Honeycomb

For the entirety of Honeycomb’s existence, we have used Apache Kafka to perform this buffering function in our observability pipeline. It also represents the last workload we had to make architecture-agnostic—each service at Honeycomb is now capable of running at production scale across both amd64 and arm64 platforms.

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Managing Distributed Systems and Engineers with Johan Andersen, Engineering Director, Citadel

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

You have previously been a Senior Engineering Manager at a tech giant, Google and now you are with Citadel, a top company in the financial space. As in how different has your experience been working in the engineering teams of two different industries (Tech and FinTech)? Johan: Assessment of a new system, or of an engineer?

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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO

The exam covers topics such as coding, designing cloud architecture, cloud security, troubleshooting, implementation, migration, load and performance testing, and business applications. Exam fee : Prices range from $75 to $125 per exam. It’s a great place to start if you want to add cybersecurity skills to your expertise.

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Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Links: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference – Berlin, Germany. Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. November 4-7, 2019. Transcript.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers.

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MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you ask an engineer to show how they operate the application in production, they will likely show containers and operational dashboards—not unlike any other software service. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Software Architecture.

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