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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. If a problem comes up, it can be addressed in code, hardware, and through automation. A framing of systems as being both social and technical ( sociotechnical! ) is pivotal.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

But the infrastructure VP invented ways for engineering teams to self-provision hardware and self-deploy software, which made it possible for teams to retain responsibility for any problems their services encountered once it went ‘live’, not just during development. Berkley is a close neighbor of Stanford, where Google was born.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

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. And I think another factor comes from the understanding of the problem.

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