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5 Ways Companies Gamified FinOps To Drive A Cost-Aware Engineering Culture

CloudZero

Getting engineers to take action to optimize spending can feel like an eternal struggle for many cloud-based companies. In fact, this particular issue is consistently considered to be one of the number-one cost challenges modern companies face.

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A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity

DevOps.com

Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. Hiring new people who have worked at big companies, or who are known in the industry, can create excitement. Those people are your influencers.

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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.

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How CloudZero Built an Engineering Culture of Cost Autonomy

CloudZero

As a cloud cost intelligence company, we often like to say “every line of code is a buying decision”. If you’re running on AWS or one of the other big cloud providers, you know that a simple decision about how to architect an application can have a significant impact on your future cost of goods sold (COGS).

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Micro-promotions and mentorship: the big impact of small actions in an engineering culture

CircleCI

Although no company is perfect, at CircleCI I’ve had opportunities to grow my career in an environment I enjoy. For the last decade, I have worked in male-dominated environments. While during this time I’ve encountered many nitwits and detractors, I’ve also been fortunate to encounter many proponents and advocates.

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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture

CIO

Companies large and small are focused on attracting and retaining top talent. Achieving this goal is an evergreen priority for any business, but taking this idea from vision to action and execution is what separates good companies from great ones. This provides purpose while tying vision to action and action to measurable outcomes.