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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on. If a problem comes up, it can be addressed in code, hardware, and through automation. Someone able to find balance in all things.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

Software engineer. As a rule, a software engineer uses coding skills to develop and design software solutions that meet the project’s requirements. For instance, software engineers need to make sure their code is ready to interact with other layers of the entire technology stack.

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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. When I was at Intel, it was a heavily dedicated area focused on computer graphics.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The rise of open source software in the 1990s has undoubtedly transformed IT. While vendor lock-in is still a very real issue, the availability of open source software has done a lot to liberate IT. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.