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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. I love all of our social Slack rooms.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. 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

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. 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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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Based on the answer to these questions, Amazon introduced a service called Lambda in 2014 that responds to events quickly and inexpensively. Lambda replaced the need for customers to pay for servers sitting around listening for events to occur – reducing the cost (and Amazon’s revenue) for event-driven systems by a factor of 5 to 10 (!).