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

TechCrunch

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. based tech companies. million by 2030.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. My experience is the opposite.

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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development

Apiumhub

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. Break the routine and allow the team to have another perspective on some parts of the project.

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DevOps

The Programmer's Paradox

I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. The different teams were scattered all over the planet, so coordinating all of the efforts was vital. The QA team had its own separate repo, and more importantly, they had their own environment configurations for our code as well.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team. Kevin, what drew you to data engineering?

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

Ourselves: to remind us what we’ve done, and to create an opportunity to reflect on how things have developed since. Our team(s): to give them a broader view of our work, to demonstrate openness about the highs and lows of being a software engineer, and to encourage a growth mindset. Who are personal retrospectives for?

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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

Strategic Tech

Often, companies want to combine improvements to their products with improvements to their operating model and ways of working. A DDD Exemplar is a project, ideally achievable within a quarter, that results in improvements in a domain(s) and improvements in how teams build products. It’s a proof-of-concept for how teams build products.