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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? These fine folks architect the scalable build system workflows, edge routing, telemetry, metrics, account management, lambda functions, and so much more that everything depends on. We also have a budget for personal growth.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Based on the answer to these questions, Amazon introduced a service called Lambda in 2014 that responds to events quickly and inexpensively. Lambda replaced the need for customers to pay for servers sitting around listening for events to occur – reducing the cost (and Amazon’s revenue) for event-driven systems by a factor of 5 to 10 (!).

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

If you look at chaos engineering, like.1 Our Chaos Monkey was like a Python script in AWS Lambda. Unfortunately, this Python script, Lambda, not really going to cut it in this day and age, especially as we move to Kubernetes. ” It’s always about the error budget, the SLO, the SLI. Don’t jump into it.