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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. 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. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education. Instead, it mentioned characteristics of the person they wanted: Someone who can debug both automated and human processes.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. They are giving some constructive feedback. And people are thanking me for working on that.

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