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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

TechCrunch

Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? And accumulate.

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How do you select the right tech stack?

TechCrunch

So to help founders understand what a good tech stack should look like, we invited two experts on this topic, Preeti Somal , the EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp and Jill Wetzler , the VP of Engineering at Pilot , to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to discuss everything from evaluating vendors to making sure you can rely on an open source product.

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How 3 Companies Implemented Distributed Tracing for Better Insight into Their Systems

Honeycomb

This blog shares how Honeycomb users Slack, HelloFresh, and Intercom implemented and incorporated distributed tracing and how it helped accelerate their development cycles—and find fast answers to complex problems. VP of Engineering Renato Todorov approached the implementation of Honeycomb gradually.

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

Apiumhub

Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. Jez is a co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise and DevOps Handbook. Bridget Kromhout .

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Remote raises $300M more, now at a $3B+ valuation, to manage payments and more for globally distributed workforces

TechCrunch

Van der Voort, who had previously been VP of product at GitLab, where he was a supporter of remote work but also someone who understood those challenges first-hand: he helped to build that organization’s remote team to 450 employees from just five.

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”. Conferences aren’t telling CxOs about the virtues of data engineering. We have conferences on data engineering. That’s great.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. However, both approaches try to find a balance between two poles and can complement each other in terms of methods, practices, and solutions.

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