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

Netlify

But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? These fine folks architect the scalable build system workflows, edge routing, telemetry, metrics, account management, lambda functions, and so much more that everything depends on.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

If you look at chaos engineering, like.1 Our Chaos Monkey was like a Python script in AWS Lambda. Unfortunately, this Python script, Lambda, not really going to cut it in this day and age, especially as we move to Kubernetes. We will probably Open Source this in the coming months. Don’t jump into it.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. but simply because the commercial world cannot win an evolutionary arms race with open-source communities that can put orders of magnitude more skilled time into a problem.