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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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

Netlify

user community who sees all the great work we do promoting the Jamstack and developer tooling. When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js developers do, because it’s the things you interact with every day. Netlify gets a lot of awareness from its active (and much beloved!)

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Furthermore, her teams use online document tools to issue RFCs and to develop structured, written decision-making that can happen asynchronously. Leaders of distributed teams can develop communication strategies that ease the delivery of critical information, as well as regularly moderating communication between teams and projects.