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Sustainable Software Talks and Latest News About Green Software

Apiumhub

Annie Freeman, Green Software advocate and engineer at Xero, delivered a compelling speech titled “ How Software Engineers Can Help Solve Climate Change ,” while Paola E. The Windows 11 updates take environmental consciousness a step further by considering the carbon intensity of the local energy grid.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

That then gets distributed across the org recursively, and every hiring manager gets a target for how many people to hire. Let’s say the CTO is absolutely adamant that they need to grow the engineering team by 2x in a year. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager. No one would hire a 2x engineer at 2.1x

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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!

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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. It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

That then gets distributed across the org recursively, and every hiring manager gets a target for how many people to hire. Let’s say the CTO is absolutely adamant that they need to grow the engineering team by 2x in a year. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager. No one would hire a 2x engineer at 2.1x

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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. It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Cultures approach conflict differently. One thing you said, I’m just curious about this, as a brief aside, do you think… have you found in your research that all cultures feel the same way about conflict through time and across the globe? My undergrad was actually in cultural anthropology. Show Notes.