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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

. “Because traditional outsourcing firms tend to attract non-tech clients and their culture revolves around billable hours, our team members were also unsatisfied with the outsourcing company that they worked for,” Samira told TechCrunch via email.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Indeed, product development and product management, where roadmaps originate and competitive juices flow, is a hotbed of creativity. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

Netflix Tech

Netflix’s mission and its culture primarily drew me to Netflix. The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview

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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”

Cloudera

Yet, users of those products want a consumer level of simplicity in enterprise software. Unlocking product led growth depends on an easy-to-use, self-explanatory interface. As a product manager, I rank features in my backlog against: How much revenue will this help me get? How hard is it for engineering to build?

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Could the time spent on these activities have been spent developing more valuable features to achieve a more beneficial product goal? When we try to model developer productivity, should we also consider product management efficacy? Even if we see an increase in output, that doesn’t imply an increase in value.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.