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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

We’ve seen the growth of events platforms, new social/spatial video environments, live commerce, live classes, fitness and workout applications, and a huge amount of experimentation in education and tutoring, just to name a few.”. video chat API service.

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

Netlify

People often end up pairing when there’s a need, or a desire for social contact, and sometimes these turn into huge group sessions that last for hours when nobody watches time , with everybody doing their thing and working almost as if we were sitting right next to each other. I love all of our social Slack rooms.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. A few things instantly stood out.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And that’s where I got my education. 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. Sergey: Yeah, sure. Sachin: Thanks for sharing that.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

If I was feeling drained in some way — short on focus, over-socialized, under-socialized — I could shift gears to some other kind of useful work that allowed me to replenish that energy. People were more likely to listen to what I had to say on social media, whether it was interesting or not.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. They have a culture of respect for engineers, and of long-term thinking. Making this transition … proved highly challenging for our business colleagues, especially culturally.