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

Netlify

But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? These fine folks architect the scalable build system workflows, edge routing, telemetry, metrics, account management, lambda functions, and so much more that everything depends on. I really like the interactions I have with my teammates!

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Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020

Honeycomb

8/3 – Query engine lambda startup failures : A code change was merged that prevented the lambda-based portion of our query engine from starting. This is the portion of our query engine that runs queries against S3-based storage — typically older data. The meta-review.

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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. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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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. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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A Key to Success: Failure with Chaos Engineering

LaunchDarkly

The focus of this event was the culture of failure. Specifically, we wanted to hear how the culture of failure (avoiding failure, recovering from failure, and learning from failure) has an impact on how we test in production. ” – Ana Medina, Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. Test in Production is back!