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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation

CIO

Of course, those platforms can only perform properly when the strength of the people behind them are optimized. So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. Budget constraints, of course, are ever present and need to be worked through very closely.

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Surviving SVB's Collapse and Outsmarting Uber with Kyte's Head of Product and Engineering, Nick Cobb

Dzone - DevOps

Of course, it hasn't been easy going for engineering leaders either. That's why Nick, the VP of Engineering and Head of Product at Kyte, sat down with us to discuss how to build an engineering culture with a bias toward action, why he deleted his team's staging environment, and what it takes to outmaneuver his former employer, Uber.

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Kafka Summit London 2019 Session Videos

Confluent

Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.

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Employee Spotlight: Zayo Engineer Mark Jensen

Zayo

What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo? What is unique about your culture? Our engineering culture is really a team atmosphere. We don’t have engineers that only install shelves, or only worry about space and power, or only worry about a small network inside of a couple of metro markets.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

The company was intriguing to begin with, but I knew nothing of the talent, culture, or leadership’s vision. After interviewing, it became clear to me that this company culture was different than any I had experienced. Over the course of your time here, how has your role evolved? Data Engineers of Netflix?

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Learn how to build a resilient software team

CircleCI

Of course, there’s an upper size limit where the cost of communication and coordination gets high, but you always want enough developers to both maintain the service and continue to innovate it. A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed.

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

Netlify

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me. On top of that, every Netlifolk has an education budget per year to spend on books, courses and webinars to further their professional development.