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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

If a problem comes up, it can be addressed in code, hardware, and through automation. However, it frames and guides the form it should take to make it more effective, useful, and sustainable. Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on.

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

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

It’s not just about hardware or resource overloading. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? In reality, I just think that approach is not sustainable. Unfortunately, not everyone has that. Things break. Input variance is a huge one.